Daybreak for June 14, 2025

  • Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, 810-886; the most prolific of the Greek hymn writers; born in Sicily, he left in 830 to escape an invasion by the Arabs; he went to Thessalonica, and then to Constantinople, and left in 841 to escape the iconoclast persecution; returning to Constantinople, he founded a monastery; for his defense of the icons, he was sent into exile; Joseph is credited with the composition of about one thousand canons
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/14/25
  • Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37