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March 14, 2024Daybreak for March 14, 2024
Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Mathilda, 895-968; given in marriage to Henry the Fowler, who eventually became King of Germany; as queen, Mathilda visited and comforted the sick and the afflicted, instructed the ignorant, succored prisoners, and endeavored to convert sinners; when King Henry died, Mathilda gave up all worldly pomp; of her three sons, Otho afterward became Emperor, Henry was Duke of Bavaria, and St. Bruno became Archbishop of Cologne

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/14/24

Gospel: John 5:31-47
52 min
March 13, 2024Daybreak for March 13, 2024
Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Agnellus of Pisa, 1195-1236; received into the Franciscans by St. Francis of Assisi, who sent him to Paris to start a Franciscan mission; Agnellus was then sent to England, where they began the Franciscan English province; he became friends with King Henry III, who called upon him to avert a civil war; during negotiations, Agnellus became ill, and died at Oxford

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/13/24

Gospel: John 5:17-30
52 min
March 12, 2024Daybreak for March 12, 2024
Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; a chamberlain at the court of Diocletian; arrested for being a Christian during the last great persecution of the Church at Diocletian's command; tortured and martyred in 303 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/12/24

Gospel: John 5:1-16
52 min
March 11, 2024Daybreak for March 11, 2024
Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; a noted scholar of scripture, he was arrested in 850; after his release, he was named bishop of Cordoba; before being consecrated, he aided Leocritia, a young Moorish woman who had converted to Christianity; they were caught and beheaded in 859 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/11/24

Gospel: John 4:43-54
52 min
March 10, 2024Daybreak for March 10, 2024
Fourth Sunday of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/10/24

Gospel: John 3:14-21
1 hr
March 09, 2024Daybreak for March 9, 2024
Saturday of the Third Week of Lent

Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, 1384-1440; attracted to the religious life in her youth, but her parents had picked a nobleman for her husband; Frances and her brother-in-law's wife set out to serve the poor together; Frances requested and was given permission to found a society of women bound by no vows--they simply offered themselves to God and to the service of the poor

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/9/24

Gospel: Luke 18:9-14
1 hr
March 08, 2024Daybreak for March 8, 2024
Friday of the Third Week of Lent

Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; came to a true conversion at the age of 40, when he went to Africa, hoping to be martyred; he was advised that this was not spiritually sound, so he returned to Spain and a religious goods store; he was moved by a sermon of St. John of Avila, and publicly beat himself, begging mercy; he was committed to a mental hospital, where he was visited by St. John of Avila, who advised him to become involved in tending to the needs of others; John of God established a house to tend to the needs of the sick poor, and lived a deep interior life; 20 years after his death, his followers formed the Brothers Hospitallers

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/24

Gospel: Mark 12:28-34
52 min
March 07, 2024Daybreak for March 7, 2024
Thursday of the Third Week of Lent

Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; lived in the Third and Fourth Centuries in Carthage, North Africa; Perpetua, 22, was a noblewoman with an infant son; she refused to deny her Christian faith; Felicity was a slavewoman and expectant mother; they and three companions were sent to the public games in the amphitheater; Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, the others were killed by beasts in 203 A.D.; Perpetua's diary ends the day before the games, and it was finished by an eyewitness

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/24

Gospel: Luke 11:14-23
52 min
March 06, 2024Daybreak for March 6, 2024
Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Colette, 1380-1447; orphaned at 17, she became a Franciscan tertiary, living in Corby Abbey, near Picardy, France; she left in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Claires; she founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule, and reformed several older convents; known for her sanctity, ecstasies, and visions of the Passion; prophesied her own death

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/24

Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19
52 min
March 05, 2024Daybreak for March 5, 2024
Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. John Joseph of the Cross, 1654-1739; became a Franciscan at the age of 16; three years after his profession, he was sent to found a monastery in Piedmont; he built another convent, and became master of novices, and later, provincial of the province of Naples; he suffered much, and was the victim of numerous calumnies, but succeeded in his work of instilling in his subjects a double spirit of contemplation and penance

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/5/24

Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35
52 min

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