Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for June 23, 2025
    • Monday of the 12th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joseph Cafasso, 1811-1860; crippled throughout his life; ordained in 1833; became professor of moral theology at the ecclesiastical college in Turin in 1836, and was superior of the college from 1846 to 1860; renowned confessor; friend and advisor to St. John Bosco; ministered to condemned prisoners; since many were hanged immediately after confession and absolution, Joseph referred to them as "hanged saints"; Joseph died in Turin
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/23/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:1-5
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 21, 2025
    • Saturday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Aloysius Gonzaga, 1568-1591; entered the Jesuit novitiate, and spent four years studying philosophy with his advisor, St. Robert Bellarmine; in 1591, a plague struck Rome, and Aloysius contracted it from nursing patients; he maintained his great discipline of prayer, knowing that he would die three months later within the octave of Corpus Christi, at the age of 23
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/21/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:24-34
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 20, 2025
    • Friday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. John of Pulsano, 1070-1139; born in Naples, and entered the Benedictines, but was disliked for his austerity; joined the community of St. William of Vercelli for a time, leaving to breach at Ban; lived as a hermit in Sicily, and was imprisoned; he escaped, and went to Capua; he later founded a monastery at Pulsano; famous for his lpreaching, prophecy, and miracles
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/20/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:19-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 19, 2025
    • Thursday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, 950-1027; witnessed his father kill a relative in a duel, and fled to a monastery; the monks found him "uncomfortably holy" and eased him out; tried to preach in Hungary, but was taken ill when he arrived, and the illness returned whenever he tried to proceed; at a monastery where he stayed, he was accused of a scandalous crime by a nobleman, which the monks accepted, and excommunicated Romuald, forbidding him to celebrate mass, an unjust punishment which he served for six months; Romuald's father became a monk, and when he wavered, Romuald's encouragement helped him
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/19/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 18, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gregory Barbarigo, 1625-1697; from a distinguished Venetian family; he embraced a diplomatic career, and later was ordained a priest, and then bishop of Bergamo; he became a cardinal and was also given authority over the diocese of Padua; he guided his flock with wisdom and understanding, and carried out the reforms of the Council of Trent; under his leadership, seminaries at Padua and Bergamo were enlarged, and he added a library and printing press at Padua
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/18/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 17, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Teresa of Portugal, 1178-1250; daughter of royal parents; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon, and bore him several children, but the marriage was declared invalid due to consanguinity; she returned to Portugal and founded a monastery, accomodating 300 nuns, and she lived there; in about 1231, at the request of Alfonso's second wife and widow, Berengaria, she settled a dispute among their children over the succession of the throne of Leon; she returned to Lorvao and became a nun
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/17/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 16, 2025
    • Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Luthgard, 1182-1246; born in Belgium, and was placed in the Benedictine convent at the age of 12; a vision of Christ compelled her to become a Benedictine; she had many mystical experiences, levitated, and had a form of the stigmata; to avoid being made abbess, she joined the Cistercians; she was known for her spiritual wisdom and miracles; she was blind during the last eleven years of her life. Luthgard is revered as a leading mystic of the Thirteenth Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/26/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:38-42
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 14, 2025
    • Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, 810-886; the most prolific of the Greek hymn writers; born in Sicily, he left in 830 to escape an invasion by the Arabs; he went to Thessalonica, and then to Constantinople, and left in 841 to escape the iconoclast persecution; returning to Constantinople, he founded a monastery; for his defense of the icons, he was sent into exile; Joseph is credited with the composition of about one thousand canons
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/14/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37
    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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