Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 11, 2025
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Damasus I, 304-384; when Damasus was elected pope, a minority elected and consecrated another deacon, Ursinus, as pope; supporters of the antipope even managed to get Damasus accused of a grave crime—probably sexual—as late as A.D. 378; he had to clear himself before both a civil court and a Church synod; as pope, his lifestyle was simple in contrast to other ecclesiastics of Rome, and he was fierce in his denunciation of Arianism and other heresies; during his pontificate, Christianity was declared the official religion of the Roman state, and Latin became the principal liturgical language as part of the pope’s reforms
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:11-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 10, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Mennas; an Athenian from Greece, sent to Alexandria on an imperial commission by Emperor Galerius; successful, he proclaimed himself a Christian; before Hermogenes, a judge, Mennas sang a four-hour musical defense of Christianity; his eyes were gouged out and his tongue cut off; according to legend, his eyes and tongue were miraculously restored, which led to the conversion of Hermogenes; Mennas was beheaded in 312 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/10/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 9, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego, 1474-1548; it was to Juan Diego that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared at Tepeyac Hill in 1531; Juan Diego later lived near the shrine constructed at Tepeyac, revered as a holy, unselfish, and compassionate catechist, who taught by word and especially by example
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/09/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 8, 2025
    • Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • Monday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/8/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2025
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, 270-343; bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; legend tells the best-known story about Nicholas concerning his charity toward a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters of marriageable age; rather than see them forced into prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married; over the centuries, this particular legend evolved into the custom of gift-giving on the saint’s feast; in the English-speaking countries, Saint Nicholas became, by a twist of the tongue, Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2025
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. John the Wonder-Worker; Eighth Century bishop of Polybatum, in Phrygia; 

      he was a defender of sacred images in the face of the ascendancy of the Iconoclasts, which placed him in considerable danger with the Ionoclast Emperor Leo V the Armenian, but he performed so many miracles that the ruler did not dare to persecute him; he died in 750

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      Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2025
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; spent most of his life in the Monastery of Saint Sabas near Jerusalem, and all of his life under Muslim rule, indeed protected by it; famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, for his treatise, "Exposition of the Orthodox Faith," and for being one of the two greatest poets of the Eastern Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2025
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; an early member of the Society of Jesus; after his ordination he was appointed apostolic nuncio in the East; he traveled to Goa, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan establishing missionary outposts and converting hundreds of thousands; Pius X named him patron of foreign missions
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    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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