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Daybreak for August 14, 2026

Daybreak

* Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time * Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, 1894-1941; he was ordained at the age of 24; in 1917, he formed an association called the Militia Immaculata, which started producing faith periodicals; it grew into a publishing house of 650 friars; in 1941, St. Maximilian was arrested and placed in a Nazi death camp; shortly after, he died at Auschwitz, from a lethal injection, when he bartered his own life for a man’s who had a family * Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/14/26 * Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12