Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 23, 2023
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John of Kanty, 1390-1473; a country boy who did well in the city and University of Krakow, Poland; after ordination, he became a professor of theology; he was then sent to be a parish priest; he returned to Krakow and taught scripture for the remainder of his life; he slept little, ate sparingly, and took no meat
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/23/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:57-66
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 22, 2023
    • Friday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Zeno; martyred soldier at Nicomedia (modern Turkey); he was seized and condemned to death for laughing while Emperor Diocletian offered a sacrifice to the Roman god Ceres; Zeno had his jaws shattered and was then beheaded in 303 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/22/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:46-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 21, 2023
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, 1521-1597; born in Holland; he had edited and written several volumes on Church history and theology, been a delegate to the Council of Trent, and reformed the German universities from heresy; he was called to Vienna to reform their university, and administered the diocese for a year; in 1565, the pope called on him to distribute the decrees of the Council of Trent to the European bishops
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/21/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:39-45
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 20, 2023
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Dominic of Silos, 1000-1073; Benedictine abbot who refused to surrender some of the order's lands to the crown, so he was exiled to Castile; King Ferdinand I made him abbot of St. Sebastian Abbey at Silos, now called St. Dominic's; Dominic reformed the abbey, built the cloisters in Romanesque style, and started a scriptorium that became famous; Dominic also rescued Christian slaves from the Moors, and was noted for miracles of healing
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/20/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 19, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Anastasius I; a Roman by birth, elected pope in 399; he was among the first to condemn the works of Origen; he also urged the church in North Africa to continue its struggle against Donatism; died in 401 and was buried in the cemetery of Pontian
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/19/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:5-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 18, 2023
    • Monday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Winebald; born in Wessex, England, the brother of Saints Willibald and Walburga; traveled to Rome, and at the invitation of St. Boniface, gathered together a group of English missionaries and went to Germany in 739; with his brother, he founded the monastery of Heidenheim, Germany, where he served as abbot with his sister as abbess; helped to make the monastery one of the leading ecclesiastical centers in Germany
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/18/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 16, 2023
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 932-999; entered an arranged marriage at about 15 to Lothair of Italy; when Lothair died, his successor tried to force Adelaide to marry his son; she appealed to Otto of Germany, who conquered Italy and married Adelaide; the two became rulers of the Holy Roman Empire; after Otto's death, Adelaide established many monasteries and churches; she died at the convent at Seltz, which she founded
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/16/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 15, 2023
    • Friday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa di Rosa, 1813-1855; born in Brescia, Italy; cared for the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills, volunteered at the Brescia hospital during the cholera epidemic of 1836, and founded a home for girls and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, she became superior of a group of religious who cared for the sick, the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19
    52 min

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Daybreak™ is a fresh, upbeat approach to morning devotions and prayer. Host Paul Sadek leads you in spiritual reflections and meditations from the daily Mass readings, Morning Prayer, the Holy…

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