Daybreak

Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, and Felicity--an expectant mother--was her slave; despite threats of persecution and death they and three companions refused to renounce their Christian faith; Perpetual and Felicity were beheaded, the others killed by beasts, in 203 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/23 Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12