Daybreak for January 11, 2025

  • Saturday after Epiphany
  • Saint of the Day: St. Palaemon; a third and fourth century Egyptian hermit who is best known for serving as mentor to St. Pachomius; Palaemon and Pachomius organized thehermitsof the Egyptiandesert into cenobitic communities, laying the groundwork for the development of monasticism; Palaemon died in 325 at Tabennisi, the vast monastic center that sheltered the earlyDesertFathers
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/11/25
  • Gospel: John 3:22-30