Friday of the Fourth Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Photina; according to Greek legend, the Samaritan woman Jesus met at the well; she took to preaching the Gospel, received imprisonment, and was finally martyred at Carthage; another tradition states that Photina was put to death in Romeafter converting the daughter of EmperorNero […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/d34ad216-eac2-4b2a-b2ee-b413003f80f6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Solemnity of St. Joseph, husband of Mary Thursday of the Fourth Week of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/19/26 Gospel: Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/ceebe5e4-9a01-47d8-b949-b412005f8726/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/ceebe5e4-9a01-47d8-b949-b412005f8726/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Cyril of Jerusalem; Fourth Century bishop; 24 of his catechetical instructions survive; he spent 16 of his 35 years as bishop in exile, the first inflicted by Acacius, Bishop of Caesarea, an ardent Arian who claimed jurisdiction over Jerusalem Office of Readings and Morning Prayer […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/d56b3dbf-8d8e-4f27-b1b1-b411004fd1bb/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Patrick; born in 387 in Roman Britain; kidnapped and forced into slavery at age 16; he escaped Ireland and returned to Scotland, but soon became aware that he longed to minister to the Irish people; he returned to his old master, paid his own ransom, […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/52b0385b-9183-44be-9bf5-b41000499c57/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

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 […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/0fc15f59-6cc7-4fcd-bda9-b40f0037333a/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/15/26 Gospel: John 9:1-41 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/89ba0e76-958d-44f4-b2f4-b40e00271bfb/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/89ba0e76-958d-44f4-b2f4-b40e00271bfb/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Boniface Curitan; Seventh Century evangelist to the Picts and Scots; probably a Roman by birth, Boniface was the bishop of Ross, England; he introduced Roman observances into the British territories and founded a vast number of parishes; he died in 660 Office of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/b4daeeef-8eeb-42af-a9bc-b40d006cca6c/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Euphrasia of Constantinople, 380-410; a noble Roman; her mother entered aconvent in Egypt, and Euphrasia, at the age of five, went with her; at the age of twelve, orphaned, she was commanded by Emperor Arcadius to marry a senator but received permission to […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/f0a46567-0fd8-46be-b8a0-b40c00486878/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; Fourth Century chamberlainat the court of EmperorDiocletian at Nicomedia; arrested for being aChristianwhen the last greatpersecution of the Church was launched; he was tortured, and eventually martyred in 303 A.D.; he is ranked as one of the first victims of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/19f91246-181d-40cc-93e1-b40b00441542/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; Ninth Century Martyredpriest of Cordoba, Spain, slain by the Moors, after his arrest in 850; Eulogius was a noted scholar of Scripture he wrote Exhortation to Martyrdom for two young virgin martyrs, Flora and Mary, who were beheaded; released, Eulogius […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/252d6b36-e638-4270-b575-b40a003e74fe/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Macarius of Jerusalem; Fourth Century bishop of Jerusalem who helped St. Helena to locate the True Cross; when Helena discovered three crosses in Jerusalem, Macarius suggested that a seriously ill woman be touched with each one; one cured the woman instantly, and was […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/11e83aea-22df-40ce-bc5c-b409004596b9/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, 1384-1440; at the age of 12, she was arranged to marry Lorenzo Ponziani; the marriage lasted forty years and bore three children; Frances’ two daughters were killed, her husband seriously wounded, and her son nearly escaped ransom; these events led her into […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/ad860b6f-486a-4f7d-bd20-b40800460c0a/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more