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Daybreak for January 27, 2026

Daybreak

* Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time * Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, 1474-1540; born in Italy, orphaned in her teens; as a young woman, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis; at age 60, Angela and 12 other women began the Company of St. Ursula; this was a new way of life--single women consecrated to Christ and living in the world rather than in a monastery, what is today known as a "Secular Institute"; Angela died in Brescia, Italy; 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 1/27/26 * Gospel: Mark 3:31-35