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Daybreak for April 28, 2022

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* Thursday of the Second Week of Easter * Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chanel, 1803-1841; born in France, with a desire to be a missionary; joined the Marists at age 28, and was sent to Futuna Island, northeast of Fiji; mastered the language, but had little apparent success aside from a few natives who were baptized; when the chieftain's son asked to be baptized, Fr. Chanel was clubbed to death; but two years later, the whole island became Catholic, and has remained so * Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/28/22 * Gospel: John 3:31-36