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April 22Daybreak for April 22, 2026
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Tarbula; Fourth Century virgin and martyr, the sister of St. Simeon the Persian, bishop and martyr; she was consecrated a virgin and met her own martyrdom soon after the death of her brother; she was accused of witchcraft, and causing the illness of the wife of the ardently anti-Christian King Shapur; she was condemned and executed in 345 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/22/26

Gospel: John 6:35-40
52 min
April 21Daybreak for April 21, 2026
Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter

Optional Memorial of St. Anselm, 1033-1109; Archbishop of Canterbury; a doctor of the church; subjects of his writings included the existence of God, the Incarnation, the procession of the Holy Spirit, Atonement, and discussions on Free Will and Predestination; German philosophers and English historians referenced Anselm; Anselm is also mentioned in Dante’s Paradiso as, “…among the spirits of light and power in the sphere of the sun…”; he was named a doctor of the church in 1720

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/21/26

Gospel: John 6:30-35
52 min
April 20Daybreak for April 20, 2026
Monday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Francis Page; a 16th and 17th Century Jesuit martyr of England; born in Antwerp, Belgium, Francis was a member of an English Protestant family; he was reconciled to the Catholic faith, and was ordained in 1600 and sent from Douai, France, to England; he was arrested there two years later; while in prison, Francis entered the Society of Jesus; he was martyred at Tyburn, England, in 1602

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/20/26

Gospel: John 6:22-29
52 min
April 19Daybreak for April 19, 2026
Third Sunday of Easter

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/19/26

Gospel: Luke 24:13-35
1 hr
April 18Daybreak for April 18, 2026
Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Apollonius the Apologist; Second Century martyr whose defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church; he was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves; the Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him, also putting the slave to death as an informer; Perennis demanded that Apollonius denounce the faith, and when he refused, the case was remanded to the Roman senate; there a debate took place between Perennis and Apollonius that clearly outlined the beauty and the value of Christianity; despite his eloquent defense, Apollonius was condemned and beheaded in 185

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/18/26

Gospel: John 6:16-21
1 hr
April 17Daybreak for April 17, 2026
Friday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Robert of Chaise Dieu; Eleventh Century Benedictine abbot and founder; born in Auvergne, France, became a priest and canon of St. Julian's in Brioude; he then founded a hospice and became spiritual director of St. Odilo in Cluny; he eventually settled near Brioude, Auvergne, with a fellow hermit, a former knight named Stephen; there he attracted followers and built the abbey of Casa Dei to house the burgeoning community of three hundred monks; he died in 1067
52 min
April 16Daybreak for April 16, 2026
Thursday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879; the recipient of the visions of Our Lady of Lourdes; born into a poor family in Lourdes, France; at 14, while gathering firewood, she encountered a beautiful lady in a grotto; after numerous additional apparitions, Bernadette asked the Lady her name, and she replied, "I am the Immaculate Conception"; a chapel was built at the site of the apparitions; in 1866, Bernadette took the religious habit of a postulant and joined the Sisters of Charity at their motherhouse at Nevers; but she contracted tuberculosis of the bone and died at the age of 35 while praying the rosary

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/16-26

Gospel: John 3:31-36
52 min
April 15Daybreak for April 15, 2026
Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Hunna, "the holy washerwoman"; a noblewoman who devoted herself to the poor of Strasbourg, France, in the Seventh Century; she even washed the poor, hence her name; she died in 679

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/15/26

Gospel: John 3:16-21
52 min
April 14Daybreak for April 14, 2026
Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Peter Gonzales, 1190-1246; born in Spain, he entered the Dominicans and became chaplain and confessor of King St. Ferdinand of Castile; he preached a campaign against the Moors, and then cared for the captured Muslims; he also cared for sailors, who dubbed him Thelmo, after St. Elmo

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/14/26

Gospel: John 3:7b-15
52 min
April 13Daybreak for April 13, 2026
Monday of the Second Week of Easter

Optional Memorial of Pope St. Martin I; Seventh Century pope during the time of a popular heresy which held that Christ had no human will; Martin called a council in which documents supporting this heresy were censured, and the patriarch of Constantinople and two of his predecessors were condemned; the emperor ordered that Martin be brought to Constantinople, where he was submitted to various imprisonments, tortures, and hardships; he was condemned to death, but was saved by a repentant Paul, patriarch of Constantinople; Martin died shortly thereafter, in 655

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/13/26

Gospel: John 3:1-8
52 min

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