Daybreak for February 3, 2025

Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; Blaise was a good Fourth Century bishop in Armenia, but was forced to flee to the back country due to persecution; when hunters encountered him and began to carry him off to prison, he was approached by a woman whose son had a fishbone caught in his throat; at Blaise's command, the boy coughed up the bone, leading to the ongoing custom of the blessing of throats on St. Blaise Day; Blaise was eventually beheaded in in 316 A.D.
Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/3/25
Gospel: Mark 5:1-20

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