Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam; master of St. Thomas Aquinas; over 20 years, he wrote a compendium of all knowledge-- natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics; he is the patron of scientists and philosophers
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/25