Daybreak for May 6, 2026

  • Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
  • Saint of the Day: St. Petronax, 670-747; regarded as the “second founder of Monte Cassino”; born in Brescia, Italy, and joined the Benedictines; Pope St. Gregory asked him to go to Monte Cassino to examine the ruins of the abbey which had been damaged by the Lombards; Petronax gatthered the hermits of the old abbey, and began rebuilding; he was elected abbot and ruled Monte Cassino for three decades
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/6/26
  • Gospel: John 15:1-8