Daybreak

Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226; serious illness brought him to a conversion; he heeded the Lord's call, "Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down"; he never intended to found an order, but once it began he protected it and accepted all legal strructures needed to support it; his devotion an loyalty to the Church were absolute; received the stigmata two years before his death Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/4/22 Gospel: Luke 10:38-42