Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 12, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; widowed after seven years of marriage, St. Francis de Sales became her spiritual director; she wanted to become a nun, but St. Francis persuaded her to defer this decision; Francis told Jane of his plan to found an institute of women who would exemplify the virtues of Mary at the visitation--thus, their name, the Visitation Nuns; the congregation began when Jane was 45; she underwent numerous sufferings--St. Francis de Sales died, her son was killed, a plague ravaged France, and her daughter-in-law and son-in-law died; Jane Frances died while on a visitation of convents of the community
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/12/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5. 10, 12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 11, 2025
    • Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253; lifelong friend and spiritual student of St. Francis; at 18, she escaped from her father's house, and was placed in a Benedictine convent by St. Francis; as her father and uncles stormed the convent, she clung to the altar of the church, and remained adamant; her sister Agnes and others joined her; they lived a simple life of great poverty, austerity, and complete seclusion from the world, according to a Rule which Francis gave them as a Second Order; she became abbess at the age of 21, and remained in that position until her death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 9, 2025
    • Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; brilliant philosopher from a Jewish family, she stopped believing in God at age 14; but the autobiography of St. Teresa so captivated Edith Stein that it led her to baptism in 1922; twelve years later, she became a Carmelite nun, taking the name, Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; she spent four years in the Cologne Carmel, and then moved to the Carmel in Echt, Netherlands; the Nazis occupied that country in 1940; they arrested all Jews who had become Christians; Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa--who was also Catholic--died in a gas chamber at Auschwitz in 1942
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:14-20
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 8, 2025
    • Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against the Albigensian heresy; he continued itinerant preaching for ten years; his followers formed a community, and Dominic founded a religious house at Toulouse, the beginning of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/8/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28
    50 min
  • Daybreak for August 7, 2025
    • Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II and companions; elected to the papacy in 257; forbidden by the Romans to hold services, he and his deacons continued to worship in the chapel in the cemetary; one day in 258, as the pope preached, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded Sixtus; four of his eight attendants were also beheaded; the authorities executed another three later that day; St. Lawrence was martyred four days later.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/7/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:13-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 5, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome; first raised by Pope Liberius in the mid-4th Century, completed in 1743; it has survived many restorations without losing its character as an early Roman basilica; the feast day is also known as "Our Lady of the Snows"--a wealthy couple pledged their fortune to the Mother of God, and as an affirmation, she produced a miraculous summer snowfall and told them to build a church on the site
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/5/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 14:22-36
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 4, 2025
    • Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, 1786-1859; ordained a priest because of his goodness, even though he had difficulty with his studies, especially Latin; became the Curé of Ars in 1818, and spent most of his mission in the confessional; toward the end of his life, he spent sixteen to eighteen hours per day administering the Sacrament of Penance; gifted with discernment of spirits, and read souls with ease; suffered diabolical attacks for thirty years; died at Ars
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/4/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21
    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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