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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 Father’... more
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 3,264 episodes available.
August 18, 2021Daybreak for August 18, 2021 Wednesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Helena; mother of Emperor Constantine, and credited with discovering the True Cross; died about 330 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/18/21 Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16 ...more54minPlay
August 17, 2021Daybreak for August 17, 2021 Tuesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Clare of Montefalco, 1268-1308; joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries; as abbess, she led an austere life, and was devoted to the Passion of Christ and His Cross Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/17/21 Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30 ...more54minPlay
August 16, 2021Daybreak for August 16, 2021 Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary, 975-1038; born a pagan, baptized at 10 along with his father, chief of the Magyars; succeeded his father, and adopted a policy of christinization of the country; asked the pope to organize the Church in Hungary and requested that he confer on him the title of king; Stephen supported churches, pastors, and the poor, abolished pagan customs, and commanded all to marry, except clergy and religious Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/16/21 Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22 ...more52minPlay
August 15, 2021Daybreak for August 15, 2021 Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary 20th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/15/21 Gospel: Luke 1:39-56 ...more1hPlay
August 14, 2021Daybreak for August 14, 2021 Memorial of St. Maximilian Mary Kolbe, 1894-1941; Conventual Franciscan priest; founded the Militia of the Immaculata and the magazine, “Knight of the Immaculata”; arrested by Nazis in 1939, but released; arrested by Nazis again in 1941, and volunteered to take the place of a man who was being sent to die Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/14/21 Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15 ...more1hPlay
August 13, 2021Daybreak for August 13, 2021 Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus; Pontian was the pope, and was arrested during a persecution in the Third Century; Hippolytus had broken from communion with the Church, and was the first anti-pope; both were arrested, separately, and sentenced to slavery in the salt mines of Sardinia; in captivity, they reconciled, and died of torture and deprivation Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/13/21 Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12 ...more52minPlay
August 12, 2021Daybreak for August 12, 2021 Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; widowed, she came under the spiritual guidance of St. Francis de Sales; Francis worked with her to found an order for those whose health, age, or other considerations barred them from entering other religious communities, the Visitation Nuns Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/12/21 Gospel: Matthew 18:21-19:1 ...more52minPlay
August 11, 2021Daybreak for August 11, 2021 Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253; lifelong friend of St. Francis, who placed her in a Benedictine convent, where she was joined by her sister Agnes and others; they lived a simple life of great poverty, austerity, and complete seclusion from the world; she served the sick and washed the feet of the begging nuns; as she came from prayer, her face was so shining that it dazzled those about her; ill the last 27 years of her life, she was once unable to attend Vespers, and was granted a vision of the service–and thus, she is the patroness of television Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/11/21 Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20 ...more52minPlay
August 10, 2021Daybreak for August 10, 2021 Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II, who was martyred days before Lawrence; Lawrence knew that he would be arrested, so he gave all of the church’s money on hand to the poor; the prefect of Rome demanded all other treasures of the church, and Lawrence showed him th blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed, and said, “These are the treasures of the church”; Lawrence died being burned slowly on a grill, from which he said to have remarked, “It is well done. Turn me over.” The Church has designated him the patron of chefs. Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/21 Gospel: John 12:24-26 ...more52minPlay
August 09, 2021Daybreak for August 9, 2021 Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; grew up in a Jewish family and became an atheist at 14; but reading the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila began a spiritual journey which led to her baptism, and becoming a Carmelite nun; she lived four years in the Cologne Carmel, and then moved to the Carmelite monastery in Echt, Netherlands; she and her sister Rosa were arrested by Nazis, and died in Auschwitz in 1942 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/21 Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27 ...more52minPlay
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 3,264 episodes available.