Daybreak

Thursday after Ash Wednesday Saint of the Day: St. Flavian of Constantinople; patriarch of Constantinople beginning about 446 A.D.; refused to give the emperor a bribe, and thus received hostile treatment from the imperial court; condemned Eutyches and the heresy of Monophysitism, leading to his being deposed, exiled, and beaten; he died in exile about 449 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/18/21 Gospel: Luke 9:22-25