Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for May 24, 2025
    • Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joanna; wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas; she was one of the women who helped provide for Jesus and the apostles; she was also one of the three women who discovered the empty tomb of Jesus on the first Easter morning
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/24/25
    • Gospel: John 16:20-23
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 23, 2025
    • Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Crispin of Viterbo, 1668-1750; born in Viterbo, Italy, studied, at the Jesuit college, and became a shoemaker; joined the Capuchin Franciscans at the age of 25, and served as gardener and cook; he called himself "the little beast of burden of the Capuchins"; during an epidemic, he effected many miraculous cures; he was also venerated for prophecies and spiritual wisdom
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/23/25
    • Gospel: John 15:12-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 22, 2025
    • Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Rita of Cascia, 1381-1457; born in central Italy, and wanted to become a nun, but was pressured into marrying a harsh and cruel man; she bore and raised two sons; after her husband was killed in a brawl and her sons died, she became an Augustinian nun; her austerity, prayerfulness, and charity became legendary; she frequently meditated on Christ's passion; along with St. Jude, she acquired the reputation as being a saint of impossible cases
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/22/25
    • Gospel: John 15:9-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 21, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes (1869-1927) and companions; they lived under a very anti-Catholic government in Mexico, one determined to weaken the Catholic faith of its people; churches, schools, and seminaries were closed; foreign clergy were expelled; Cristópher established a clandestine seminary; he and the other priests were forced to minister secretly to Catholics; they were martyred over 22 years in eight Mexican states
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/21/25
    • Gospel: John 15:1-8
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 20, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, 1380-1444; ran the hospital in Siena at the age of 20, during the plague; at 22, he became a Franciscan, and was ordained two years later; lived in solitude and prayer for a dozen years, but his gifts called him to go out and preach; he was known for his devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, and devised a symbol—IHS, the first three letters of the name of Jesus in Greek—in Gothic letters on a blazing sun; the devotion spread; as general of the Friars of the Strict Observance, he emphasized scholarship and further study of theology and canon law; he died while traveling
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/20/25
    • Gospel: John 14:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 19, 2025
    • Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Pudentiana; legend has her as the daughter of the Roman senator named in St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy who gave away her wealth to the poor, aided the burials of Christians, and died at the age of sixteen
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/19/25
    • Gospel: John 14:21-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 16, 2025
    • Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Simon Stock; brought the Carmelite order from the Holy Land to Europe, and changed it from a hermit order to one of mendicant friars; received an apparition from the Blessed Mother in 1251, in which she gave him the brown scapular
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/16/25
    • Gospel: John 14:1-6
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 15, 2025
    • Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Isidore the Famer, 1070-1130; born in Madrid, Spain, and spent most of life as a laborer on a farm outside of the city; he was favored with celestial visions, and it is said that angels sometimes assisted with his field work; he the patron of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in the United States
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
    • Gospel: John 13:16-20
    1 hr
  • Daybreak Wednesday 051425
    • Feast of St. Matthias; after the Ascension, Matthias was chosen to replace Judas in the college of Apostles
    • Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/14/25
    • Gospel: John 15:9-17
    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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