Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for June 13, 2025
    • Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, 1195-1231; joined the Augustinians at a young age, and then the Franciscans; he became recognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars; soon, he was called to preach to the Albigensians in France; after leading the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made Padua his headquarters;in the spring of 1231 Anthony withdrew to a friary at Camposampiero where he had a sort of treehouse built as a hermitage; he fell ill on June 13, 1231, and died at Padua
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/13/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:27-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 12, 2025
    • Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Mount Athos; the first hermit to reside on the famous Mount Athos in Greece; legend has it that he was a soldier, captured by Muslims, and held until released through the intervention of St. Simeon; he went to Rome, and is believed to have received the monastic habit directly from the pope; he was graced with a vision from Our Lady, and traveled to Mount Athos, where he took up residence as a hermt, and remained for nearly half-a-century; died in the Eighth Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/12/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 11, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Barnabas; he was closely associated with St. Paul; he introduced Paul to Peter and the other apostles—and served as a kind of mediator between the former persecutor and the still suspicious Jewish Christians; Barnabas and Paul instructed in Antioch for a year, after which they took relief contributions to Jerusalem; later, they were sent by Antioch officials to preach to the Gentiles; but they were expelled from one town, they had to go to Jerusalem to clear up the ever-recurring controversy about circumcision; Paul and Barnabas separated over a disagreement about Barnabas' cousin, John Mark, joining them after he had once deserted them
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 10, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Landericus; as bishop of Paris from 650 to 661, he worked zealously to improve the lot of the poor; he sold his own possessions to feed the hungry during a famine, and even sold some of the Church vessels and furniture; he erected the city's first real hospital; he welcomed the Benedictines into his diocese, and encouraged them to set up the Abbey of Denis; he died about 661 after having commissioned the monk Marculfus to compile a collection of Ecclesiastical Formulas
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/10/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 9, 2025
    • Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/9/25
    • Gospel: John 19:25-34
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 7, 2025
    • Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Willibald, 700-786; brother of Saints Winebald and Walburga, and related through his mother to St. Boniface; went on a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, and was captured by Saracens who thought him a spy; he was eventually released and continued on to all of the holy places and then to Constantinople; When he returned to Rome he spent ten years at Monte Cassino, serving as sacristan, dean, and porter; Pope St. Gregory III sent him to Germany to assist his cousin St. Boniface; Boniface ordained him in 741 and soon appointed him bishop of Eichstatt, in Franconia; he founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, naming Winebald abbot and his sister Walburga abbess; Willibald served as bishop for some four decades
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/25
    • Gospel: John 21:20-25
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 6, 2025
    • Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, 1080-1134; founder of the Praemonstratensians or the Norbertines; his founding of the Order was a monumental task: combatting rampant heresies—particularly regarding the Blessed Sacrament, revitalizing many of the faithful who had grown indifferent and dissolute, plus effecting peace and reconciliation among enemies; reluctantly, Norbert became archbishop of Magdeburg in central Germany, a territory half pagan and half Christian; in this position he zealously continued his work for the Church until his death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/6/25
    • Gospel: John 21:15-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 5, 2025
    • Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Memorial of St. Boniface, 675-754; an English Benedictine Monk who devoted his life to the evangelization of the German peoples; made a missionary trip in 719, and found paganism a way of life; the Holy Father directed him to reform the German Church, and he was eminently successful; during a final mission to the Frisians, Boniface and 53 companions were massacred while he was preparing converts for confirmation
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/5/25
    • Gospel: John 17:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 4, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Petroc; born in Wales, became a monk, and went to Ireland to study; immigrated to Cornwall, England, and after thirty years made a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, at which time, he is reputed to have reached the Indian Ocean, and spent some time as a hermit on an island; he returned to Cornwall, built a chapel, established a community of followers, and then became a hermit; again, he attracted followers, and he was known for his miracles; he died in 564 while visiting some of his disciples
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/4/25
    • Gospel: John 17:11b-19
    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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