Daybreak for February 25, 2025

  • Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saint of the Day: St. Walburga, 710-779; born in Devonshire, England, the daughter of a West Saxon Chieftain, and sister of Saints Willebald and Winebald; she was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset, where she became a nun; she was later sent to Germany to help St. Boniface in his missionary work; she becameAbbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim founded by her brother Winebald; on Winebald’s death, she was appointed abbess of both monasteries by her brother Willebald, who was then bishop of Eichstadt; she remained the superior of both the men and women until her death
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/25/25
  • Gospel: Mark 9:30-37