Daybreak

Friday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Scholastica; sister of St. Benedict; governed a monastery of nuns five miles from Monte Cassino, and visited her brother annually, conferring on spiritual matters; once, Scholastica begged her brother to stay overnight, and he refused; so she prayed, and a fierce thunderstorm broke out; they spent the night in spiritual conferences; Scholastica died three days later, in 543 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/10/23 Gospel: Mark 7:31-37