Daybreak for December 15, 2025

  • Monday of the Third Week of Advent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at the age of 17 to manage her widowed father’s household; she took care of the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father’s mills, and she volunteered to work in the Brescia hospital during the 1836 cholera epidemic; later, she founded a home for girls and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, her spiritual director made herSuperior of a group of religious who cared for the sick, the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/25
  • Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27