Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for November 12, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Josaphat, 1580-1623; born in what is now Ukraine, he became a Basilian monk, then a priest, and soon was well known as a preacher and an ascetic; he became bishop of Vitebsk and archbishop of Polotsk; most monks, fearing interference in liturgy and customs, did not want union with Rome; Josaphat went to Vitebsk, where he was martyred, and his body thrown into the river; it was recovered, and is now buried at St. Peter's in Rome; Josaphat is the first saint of the Eastern Church to be canonized by Rome
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/12/25
    • Gospel: Luke 17:11-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 11, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, 316-397; after discharge from the army, he went to be a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers; Martin became a monk, first living in Milan, and then on an island; he returned to France and established what may have been the first French monastery near Poitiers; the people of Tours wanted Martin to be their bishop; so they invited him on a ruse, to visit a sick person; he was taken to the church and reluctantly allowed himself to be consecrated bishop; as death approached, Martin’s followers begged him not to leave them; he prayed, “Lord, if your people still need me, I do not refuse the work; Your will be done”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/11/25
    • Gospel: Luke 17:7-10
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 10, 2025
    • Monday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Pope St. Leo the Great; elected pope in 440; known as one of the best administrative popes of the ancient Church; it is said of Leo the Great that his true significance rests in his doctrinal insistence on the mysteries of Christ and the Church and in the supernatural charisms of the spiritual life given to humanity in Christ and in his Body, the Church; he died in 461 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/10/25
    • Gospel: Luke 17:1-6
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 7, 2025
    • Friday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Engelbert; son of the count of Berg and became the possessor of many benefices; Engelbert was excommunicated but was restored into union with the Church; he became the archbishop of Cologne in 1217, at the age of thirty; he became tutor to the son of Emperor Frederick II; in 1222 he crowned Henry King of the Romans; Engelbert was slain by his cousin Frederick, whom he had thwarted in an attempt to steal from the nuns of Essen; Engelbert was ambushed at Gevelsberg and murdered on November 7
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/7/25
    • Gospel: Luke 16:1-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 6, 2025
    • Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Leonard of Noblac; Sixth Century Hermit-abbot, a convert of St. Remigius; he was a French courtier offered a bishopric, but became a recluse at Micy, France; he then lived at Limoges, France, and he was given land by the royal court on which he founded Noblac Abbey, later called Saint-Leonard; he died in 559 A.D.; he is a patron of Women in labor and prisoners of war
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 15:1-10
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 5, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Elizabeth; cousin to the Virgin Mary; her husband, Zechariah, desiring a child, went to pray in the temple, and his prayer was answered; Elizabeth became pregnant shortly after; Mary visited Elizabeth, and the baby leaped in Elizabeth's womb; although Elizabeth's neighbors assumed the child would be named Zechariah, her husband insisted that John be his name, as the angel Gabriel had instructed him; he was, of course, later known as John the Baptist
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/5/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:25-33
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, 1538-1584; ordained a priest at age 25, and was then consecrated archbishop of Milan; he deserves the credit for keeping the Council of Trent in session when at several points it was on the verge of breaking up; when he was finally able to spend time on his diocese, St. Charles found it in much need of reform, accomplished through a provincial council of all bishops under him; during the plague and famine of 1576, St. Charles attempted to feed 60,000 to 70,000 per day; St. Charles Borromeo died in 1584 at the age of 46
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/4/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:15-24
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 3, 2025
    • Monday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres, 1579-1639; son of a black or indiginous freed woman of Peru and a Spanish Grandee; his parents never married, and Martin bore the appearance of his mother; his father abandoned the family, and Martin grew up in poverty; he became a lay helper for the Dominicans, who eventually asked him to make full religious profession; many of his nights were spent in prayer and penitential practices; his days were filled with nursing the sick and caring for the poor; he was instrumental in founding an orphanage, took care of slaves brought from Africa, and managed the daily alms of the priory; many of his fellow religious took Martin as their spiritual director, but he continued to call himself a “poor slave”; he was a good friend of another Dominican saint of Peru, Rose of Lima
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/3/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:12-14
    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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