Daybreak for August 9, 2021

09/08/2021 51 min
Daybreak for August 9, 2021

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Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; grew up in a Jewish family and became an atheist at 14; but reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila began a spiritual journey which led to her baptism, and becoming a Carmelite nun; she lived four years in the Cologne Carmel, and then moved to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands; she and her sister Rosa were arrested by Nazis, and died in Auschwitz in 1942 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/21 Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27