Saturday of week 32 in Ordinary Time, or Saint Albert the Great, Bishop, Doctor

, or Saturday memorial of the Blessed Virgin Mary

Friday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeOffice of Readings | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | Night Prayer | Mass(St Dyfrig or Dubric or Dubricius)

He was born in what is now Herefordshire, the illegitimate son of the daughter of a local king. He founded monasteries in south-east Wales, was the teacher of Saints Teilo and Samson among others, and exercised the functions of a bishop. He attended a synod in 545 and is thought to have died a few years later. As with so many Welsh saints of this period, firm dates are hard to come by: some sources put his death in the year 612.(Saint Laurenc O'Toole (1128 - 1180))

Thursday of week 32 in Ordinary TimeOffice of Readings | Morning Prayer | Evening Prayer | Night Prayer | Mass(Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850 - 1917))

She was born in Lombardy, the youngest of thirteen children. Because of her frail health she was refused admission to two convents. She devoted herself to teaching, and founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, whose aim is to spread devotion to the Heart of Jesus by spiritual and corporal works of mercy, running homes for the old and the sick, orphanages, and schools. In 1889 the Pope sent her to New York, where she founded an orphanage. In all she founded 67 institutions across the United States, South America and Europe. She died of malaria at Chicago in 1917.See also the web site of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus.(Saints Benedykt, Jan, Mateusz, Isaak and Krystyn, the first martyrs of Poland)