Daybreak for September 20, 2024

  • Friday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
  • Memorial of Saints Andrew Kim Taegon, Paul Chong Hasang, and companions, the Korean martyrs; Andrew was the first native Korean priest; he was arrested and beheaded while trying to arrange water passage for more missionaries; Paul was a lay apostle and married man, also died in 1839 at age 45; along with Andrew and Paul, 98 other Koreans and three French missionaries who were martyred between 1839 and 1867 were canonized by Pope John Paul II
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/20/24
  • Gospel: Luke 8:1-3