Daybreak

Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at 17 to manage her widowed father's household; cared for the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills; worked in the Brescia hospital during the 1836 cholera epidemic; founded a home for girls, and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, she became the Superior of the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/21 Gospel: Luke 7:18-23