Daybreak

Saturday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, 1891-1927; born into a prosperous Mexican family; entered the Jesuits in 1911, but fled to Granada, Spain, because of religious persecution in Mexico; ordained in Belgium in 1925; he returned to Mexico to serve a church which was forced to go underground; arrested on trumped-up charges of trying assassinate the president of Mexico, and was sentenced to a firing squad in 1927; his final words were, "Viva Cristo Rey!"--"Long live Christ the King" Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/23/24 Gospel: Luke 20:27-40