• Thursday of the First Week of Lent
• Saint of the Day: St. Isabel of France, 1225-1270; sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII ofFrance and Blanche of Castile; she refused offers of marriage to continue herlifeofvirginity consecrated to God; she ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary; she lived there in austerity, but never became a nun and refused to become abbess; she died there in 1270
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/26/26
• Gospel: Matthew 7:7-12

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