Daybreak for March 7, 2023

  • Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent
  • Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, and Felicity–an expectant mother–was her slave; despite threats of persecution and death they and three companions refused to renounce their Christian faith; Perpetual and Felicity were beheaded, the others killed by beasts, in 203 A.D.
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/23
  • Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12