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Saints of August 7

Friday, August 7, 2026

Friday of the eighteenth week of Ordinary Time

  • Green
  • Year II
  • Psalter week 2

Optional memorial: Saint Sixtus II, Pope, and Companions, Martyrs

Optional memorial: Saint Cajetan, Priest

Mass readings

  • First readingDt 4:32-40
  • PsalmPs 77:12-16, 21
  • GospelMt 16:24-28

Read the readings in full

  • Saint Cajetan of Thiene
  • Saint Miguel de la Mora de la Mora
  • Saint Donatus of Arezzo
  • Saint Dometius of Persia
  • Saint Victricius of Rouen
  • Saint Carpophorus of Como and Companion Martyrs
  • Saint Donatus of Besançon
  • Saint Afra of Augsburg

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