Daybreak for March 21, 2025

  • Friday of the Second Week of Lent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Enda, 450-530; Irishman noted for his military feats who was convinced by his sisterSt. Fanchea to renounce his warring activities and marry; when he found his fiancee dead, he decided to become a monk and went on pilgrimage to Rome, where he was ordained; he returned to Ireland, built churches at Drogheda, and then secured from his brother-in-law King Oengus of Munster the island of Aran, where he built the monastery of Killeaney, from which ten other foundations on the island developed; with St. Finnian of Clonard, he is considered the founder of Irish monasticism
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/21/25
  • Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46