Daybreak 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