Daybreak for March 16, 2026

  • Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent
  • Saint of the Day: St. Finian Lobhar; Sixth Century Irish abbot, a disciple of St. Columba; tradition credits him with founding a church and monastery at Innisfallen; after a stay in Clonmore, Finian Lobhar became abbotof SwordsAbbey near Dublin; he may have returned to Clonmore in his later years; he became known as “Lobhar”–“the leper”–because he had contracted leprosy from a young boy whom he had cured of the disease; Finian died in 560
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/16/26
  • Gospel: John 4:43-54