Daybreak- Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus; Pontian was Bishop of Rome from 230 – 236 A.D.; St. Hippolytus, a prominent theologian, was a theological opponent and rival of several of Pontian’s predecessors and of Pontian himself; when Maximinus I became emperor in 235, . he banished both men to the island of Sardinia; St. Hippolytus reconciled with Rome, and both men suffered inhumane treatment and death in the mines of Sardinia and they are celebrated together as holy martyrs in the Church
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/13/26
- Gospel: Matthew 18:21-19:1
