Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 4, 2023
    • Friday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Vianney, the Curé d'Ars, 1786-1859; a poor student, but he was determined to be a priest; his work as a confessor is his most remarkable accomplishment, spending up to 16 hours per day in the confessional; patron of parish priests worldwide
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/4/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:54-58
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 3, 2023
    • Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gamaliel; First Century rabbinical teacher, mentor of St. Paul; advised the Sanhedrin to release Peter and other apostles; reportedly became a Christian himself; mentioned in Chapter 5 of the Acts of the Apostles
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/3/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:37-53
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 2, 2023
    • Wednesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, 300-371; first recorded bishop of Vercelli in Piedmont, in northwest Italy; reluctantly participated in a council to settle Catholic-Arian troubles, and refused to go along with the condemnation of Saint Athanasius; exiled by the emperor, until a new emperor allowed him to return to Vercelli
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/2/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 1, 2023
    • Tuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787; born near Naples, and graduated in law at the age of 16; against much opposition, he was ordained a priest in 1726; in 1732, he founded the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer, also known as the Redemptorists; appointed bishop of St. Agatha in 1756; retired, and died in his convent in 1787
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/1/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:36-43
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 31, 2023
    • Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1491-1556; during his recovery from war wounds, he read a life of Christ and lives of the saints, and was deeply touched; during his conversion, he began to write what would become "The Spiritual Exercises"; in 1534, Ignatius and six others began the Society of Jesus; Ignatius' spirituality is expressed in the Jesuit motto, Ad majorem Dei gloriam—“for the greater glory of God”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/31/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:31-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 29, 2023
    • Saturday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus; siblings, close friends of Jesus, who stayed with them when he was in Bethany; when Jesus told Martha, "I am the resurrection and the life," she responded, "Yes, Lord. I have come to believe that you are the Messiah, the Son of God, the one who is coming into the world’"; legends abound about Lazarus, including one which holds that he wrote an account of what he witnessed in the next world before being brought back to life
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/29/23
    • Gospel: John 11:19-27
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for July 28, 2023
    • Friday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St, Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, 1920-1946; Franciscan religious sister; the first native of India to be canonized a saint, and the first saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an Eastern Catholic Church of the Saint Thomas Christian community
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/28/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 27, 2023
    • Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Titus Brandsma, 1881-1942; Dutch Carmelite priest, known for his intellect and scholarship; he was singled out as an enemy of the Nazis, because he fought the spread of Nazism in Europe; he was sent to various concentration camps, where he demonstrated charity and concern; he was martyred at Dachau
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/27/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:10-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 26, 2023
    • Wednesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary; no "hard facts" are available about them; even their names come from a legendary source written more than a century after the Passion; but much can be inferred about their heroism and holiness simply by looking at the Blessed Virgin herself
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/26/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9
    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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