Daybreak for March 13, 2025

  • Thursday of the First Week of Lent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Heldrad; Ninth Century Benedictine abbot who devised ways of rescuing travelers in the Alps; a noble from Provence, France, he set out on a pilgrimage to Rome, entered the abbey of Novalese in the Italian Alps, became abbot, and ruled for thirty years; he built a hospice and added to the abbey’s library; Heldrad died in 842 A.D.
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/13/25
  • Gospel: Matthew7:7-12