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Had 25 January not been a Sunday, we would have celebrated the feast of the Conversion of Saint Paul: Apostle-link Unus, Apostle-link Duo, & Wikipedia-link.

Monday was the Memorial of Saints Timothy & Titus, Bishops (1st century): Saints-link Timothy & Titus, Martyr-link Timothy & Wikipedia-link Timothy, Saint-link Titus & Wikipedia-link Titus.

Commentary: Quoth the Bulletin:

Timothy had the honor of being a fellow apostle with Paul, both sharing the privilege of preaching the gospel & suffering for it.

Titus has the distinction of being a close friend & disciple of Paul as well as a fellow missionary.

Today is the optional memorial of Saint Angela Merici, Virgin, C.S.U. (1474-1540), foundress of the Angelines, formally the Company of Saint Ursula: Saint-link Unus & Saint-link Duo, Wikipedia-link Angela & Wikipedia-link Angelines.

Commentary: Quoth the Bulletin:

Although it was never a religious order in her lifetime, Angela's Company of Saint Ursula, or the Ursulines, was the first group of women religious to work outside the cloister & the first teaching order of women.

Actually, the Ursulines are the Order of Saint Ursula, an off-shoot of the Company of Saint Ursula, the Angelines. Unlike today's saint & the Angelines, the Ursulines went back to the cloister & live under the monastic Rule of Saint Augustine.

Scripture of the Day (Sunday)
Personal Reading
The Gospel according to John, chapter twenty-one (of twenty-one).

Mass Readings
The Book of Jonah, chapter three, verses one thru five, ten;
Psalm Twenty-five, verses four thru nine;
The First Epistle to the Corinthians, chapter seven, verses twenty-nine thru thirty-one;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter one, verses fourteen thru twenty.

Scripture of the Day (Monday)
Personal Reading
The Book of Zephaniah.

Mass Readings
The Second Epistle to Timothy, chapter one, verses one thru eight;
or, the Epistle to Titus, chapter one, verses one thru five;
Psalm Ninety-six, verses one thru three, seven thru eight(A), ten;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter three, verses twenty-two thru thirty.

Scripture of the Day (Today)
Personal Reading
The Book of Nahum.

Mass Readings
The Epistle to the Hebrews, chapter ten, verses one thru ten;
Psalm Forty, verses two & four (AB), seven thru eight (A), ten & eleven;
The Gospel according to Mark, chapter three, verses thirty-one thru thirty-five.