• Wednesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
• Saint of the Day: Pope St. Zephyrinus; pope from 199 to 217; he was a Roman by birth; his reign, as successor to St. Victor I, was dominated by the troubles caused by several heretical groups and the severepersecutionof the Church launched by EmperorSeptimius Severus around 202; the antipope Hippolytus criticized his vacillation in dealing with the Monarchian heretics; according to tradition, Zephyrinus was martyred in 217
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/26/26
• Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32

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