Daybreak for March 16, 2023

  • Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Finian Lobhar; Sixth Century Irish abbot and disciple of St. Columba; founded a church and monastery at Innisfallen; later became abbot of Swords Abbey near Dublin; acquired the name Lobhar–“the leper”–when he contracted leprosy from a young boy whom he had cured of the disease; died 560 A.D.
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/16/23
  • Gospel: Luke 11:14-23