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Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank; entered the Dominicans, and proceeded  to write a compendium of all knowledge--natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics; it took him 20 years to complete, while he served as an educator at Paris and Cologne, as Dominican provincial, and even as bishop of Regensburg for a short time; St. Albert is the patron of scientists and philosophers Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/24 Gospel: Luke 17:26-37