Daybreak for June 3, 2026

  • Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
  • Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and companions; Charles was born in 1860, and he became a page in the royal court of Mwanga, the king of the Baganda in the south of what is now Uganda; the king was hostile to Christians, and when Joseph Mkasa, master of the pages and a Catholic, tried to protect the young pages, he was beheaded; Charles was appointed to succeed him; the king demanded that all remaining pages renounce their Christian faith, and when they refused, they were burned to death in 1886
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/3/26
  • Gospel: Mark 12:18-27