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Daybreak for January 27, 2024

Daybreak

* Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time * Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, 1474-1540; born in Italy; in a visionary experience, she felt called to found a "company" of women; at age 60, Angela and 12 other women began the Company of St. Ursula, constituting a new way of life--single women consecrated to Christ and living in the world rather than in a monastery, what today is called a "Secular Institute"; Angela died in Brescia, Italy, in 1540; in the early 1600s, Companies that had expanded into France were re-organized into the religious Order of St. Ursula, to teach girls * Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/27/24 * Gospel: Mark 4:35-41