Daybreak for January 12, 2023

  • Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saint of the Day: St. Benedict Biscop, 628-690; served King Oswui of Northumbria as a warrior until his first of numerous visits to Rome; appointed abbot of Saints Peter and Paul monastery (now St. Augustine’s) in Canterbury; assured Pope Agatho of the orthodoxy of the English church; and brought back many additions to th elibraries at Wearmouth and Jarrow
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/12/23
  • Gospel: Mark 1:40-45