• Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
• Memorial of St. Peter Claver, 1580-1654; studied arts and letters at the University of Barcelona; followed the call to the missions, and in 1616 he was ordained to the priesthood in the Mission of Colombia; there, he carried on an apostolate among the black slaves, vowing to be “the slave of the blacks for ever”; his strength exhausted, he died at Cartagena in Colombia in 1654
• Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/9/26
• Gospel: Luke 6:20-26

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