Daybreak for February 20, 2023

  • Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
  • Saints of the Day: Saints Jacinta (1920-1920) and Francisco (1908-1919) Marto; two of the three Portuguese shepherd children who received apparitions of Our Lady near Fatima, Portugal, from May to October of 1917; Mary asked the children to pray the rosary to obtain peace for the world and the end of the war, and for the conversion of Russia, which was soon to fall under communism
  • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/20/23
  • Gospel: Mark 9:14-29