Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 22, 2025
    • Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Zeno; martyred soldier at Nicomedia (modern-day 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
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/22/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:46-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 20, 2025
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Dominic of Silos, 1000-1073; born in Navarre, Spain; when, as Benedictine abbot, he refused to surrender lands to the crown, he was exiled; he went to King Ferdinand I of Castile and Leon, who made him abbot of St. Sebastian Abbey at Silos, now called St. Dominic’s; one of the most beloved saints in Spain, Dominic also rescued Christian slaves from the Moors; the mother of St. Dominic of Guzman--founder of the Order of Preachers--visited Dominic's shrine, begging for a child; he was also noted for miracles of healing
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/20/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 19, 2025
    • Friday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Nemesius; martyred in Alexandria under the persecution of Decius; Nemesius was arrested, scourged, and burned alive; like Christ, he was killed between two criminals
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/19/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:5-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 18, 2025
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Auxentius; soldier in the Roman army, but refused to take part in sacrifices to pagan gods, and was persecuted for the faith; after his release from military service, he was ordained a priest and became the bishop of Mopsuestia, in Cilicia; he died in 321
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/18/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 17, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Wivina, 1103-1170; she was a native of Oisy, Flanders, Belgium; she refused all offers of marriage until the age of 23, when she became a hermitess at GrandBigard, near Brussels; she gathered disciples, and accepted the offer of land from Count Godfrey of Brabant and built a convent over which she served as first abbess
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/17/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 16, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 931-999; married Lothair of Italy, and when he died, his successor and usurper, Berengar of Ivrea, tried to force her to marry his son; she escaped to Canossa, and sought the help of Otto of Germany; Otto conquered Italy, married Adelaide, and Pope John XII proclaimed the couple rulers of the Holy Roman Empire; she established many monasteries, and became interested in evangelism; she became regent for her grandson, Otto III, and died at the convent at Seltz, which she had founded
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/16/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 15, 2025
    • Monday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at the age of 17 to manage her widowed father's household; she took care of the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills, and she volunteered to work in the Brescia hospital during the 1836 cholera epidemic; later, she founded a home for girls and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, her spiritual director made her Superior of a group of religious who cared for the sick, the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 13, 2025
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr, 283-304. lived a Christian life; but she rejected the advances of a Roman soldier, and was arrested, and martyred; Lucy is the patron saint of eye ailments
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13
    1 hr

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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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