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Daybreak for January 17. 2025

Daybreak

* Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time * Memorial of St. Anthony the Abbot, 251-356; at the age of 20, he gave up his large inheritance to the poor, and embraced the eremetical life; he gave the Church and the world the witness of solitary asceticism, great personal mortification and prayer; he also drew many people to himself for spiritual healing and guidance; at 54, he founded a monastery of scattered cells; at 60, he hoped to be a martyr in the renewed persecution of 311; at 88, he fought the Arian heresy; he died in solitude at the age of 105 * Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/17/25 * Gospel: Mark 2:1-12