Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for March 14, 2025
    • Friday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Matilda; Tenth Century daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark; married Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto of Saxony, in the year 909; he succeeded his father as Duke in the year 912 and in 919 succeeded King Conrad I to the German throne; she was noted for her piety and charitable works; she was widowed in 936; she was severely criticized by her sons Otto and Henry for what they considered her extravagant charities, so she resigned her inheritance to them, and retired to her country home; in 955, she built three convents and a monastery; she was left in charge of the kingdom when Otto went to Rome in 962 to be crowned Emperor (often regarded as the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire); she spent most of the declining years at the convent at Nordhausen she had built; she died at the monastery at Quedlinburg on March 14, 968
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/14/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 13, 2025
    • Thursday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Heldrad; Ninth Century Benedictine abbot who devised ways of rescuing travelers in the Alps; a noble from Provence, France, he set out on a pilgrimage to Rome, entered the abbey of Novalese in the Italian Alps, became abbot, and ruled for thirty years; he built a hospice and added to the abbey's library; Heldrad died in 842 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/13/25
    • Gospel: Matthew7:7-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 12, 2025
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; Third- and early Fourth-Century chamberlain to emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia; arrested for being a Christian at the beginning of the last great persecution by the Roman Empire; Peter was tortured and roasted to death over a fire in 303 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/12/25
    • Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 11, 2025
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; noted scripture scholar; wrote "Exhortation to Martyrdom" for two young virgin martyrs; he was named archbishop of Cordoba; before being consecrated, he aided Leocritia, a young Moorish woman who had converted to Christianity; they were caught and beheaded in 859 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 8, 2025
    • Saturday after Ash Wednesday
    • Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; wanted to be a martyr in North Africa, but returned to care for the sick poor; John became ill after ten years of service, and died under the care of a spiritual friend and admirer, Lady Ana Ossorio
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/25
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 7, 2025
    • Friday after Ash Wednesday
    • Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa in the Second and early Third Centuries, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians; Perpetua refused to renounce her Christian faith, and she, Felicity--a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions were sent to the public games in the amphitheater; there Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts, all in 203; Perpetua’s record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games; the diary was completed by an eyewitness
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:14-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 6, 2025
    • Thursday after Ash Wednesday
    • Saint of the Day: St. Fridolin; Sixth century Benedictine abbot, an Irishman venerated as “the Apostle of the Upper Rhine”; settled in Poitiers, France, and rebuilt the monastery of St. Hilary, destroyed by Vandals; then, he became a hermit on the Rhine, and built the Abbey of Sackingen; he was often called "The Wanderer" because of his many evangelizing journeys in the area; Fridolin died in 540
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; lived a disciplined, holy life from his teens; when the people of Hungary asked Casimir's father, the king of Poland, to come and take over their country, Casimir obeyed--but was outnumbered; when his troops started deserting, Casimir decided to return home; his father punished him by confining him for three months, while Casimir returned to study and prayer; Casimir reigned briefly as king of Poland during his father’s absence; he died of lung trouble in 1493, at the age of 25 while visiting Lithuania, of which he was also Grand Duke
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/4/25
    • Gospel: Mark 10:28-31
    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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