Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for February 10, 2025
    • Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Scholastica, 480-542; twin sister of St. Benedict; founded a religious community for women near Monte Cassino, where Benedict governed; the twins visited each other once per year; on their final visit, Scholastica sensed that he death was near, and asked Benedict to stay until the next morning; he refused, so Scholastica asked God to make it happen--which resulted in a severe thunderstorm; three days later, Benedict, in prayer, saw the soul of his sister rising heavenward
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/10/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:53-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 7, 2025
    • Friday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Luke the Younger; Tenth Century hermit and wonder-worker whose solitary hermitage in Thessaly, Greece, became known as the Soterion, “the place of healing”; he tried to become a religious but was arrested as an escaped slave and imprisoned for a time; he finally became a hermit on Mount Joannitsa. near Corinth; there he was revered for his holiness and miracles, which earned him the surname Thaumaturgus, or "wonder-worker"; he died in 946 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/7/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:14-29
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 6, 2025
    • Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Paul Miki and companions, the Japanese martyrs; in 1597, 26 martyrs of Japan were crucified on a hill, now known as the Holy Mountain, overlooking Nagasaki; among them were priests, brothers, and laymen, Franciscans, Jesuits, and members of the Secular Franciscan Order; Brother Paul Miki, a Jesuit and a native of Japan, has become the best known among the martyrs of Japan; while hanging upon a cross, Paul Miki preached to the people, forgiving his executioners; when missionaries returned to Japan in the 1860's, they found that thousands of Christians around Nagasaki had secretly preserved the faith
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/6/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 5, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Agatha, 230-251; arrested as a Christian in Sicily during the persecution of Decius; she was tortured, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated; she was preserved from being violated, but was put to death; patroness of Palermo and Catania
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/5/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:1-6
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Andrew Corsini, 1302-1373; born in Florence, he was wild in his youth, but converted to a holy life and became a Carmelite monk; he became known in Florence as a prophet and a miracle worker; he was named bishop of Fiesole in 1349, a post which he held for twelve years; he was sent by Pope Urban V to Bologna to settle disputes between nobles and commoners; he died in Fiesole
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/4/25
    • Gospel: Mark 5:21-43
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 3, 2025
    • Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; Blaise was a good Fourth Century bishop in Armenia, but was forced to flee to the back country due to persecution; when hunters encountered him and began to carry him off to prison, he was approached by a woman whose son had a fishbone caught in his throat; at Blaise's command, the boy coughed up the bone, leading to the ongoing custom of the blessing of throats on St. Blaise Day; Blaise was eventually beheaded in in 316 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/3/25
    • Gospel: Mark 5:1-20
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 1, 2025
    • Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Brigid of Ireland, 451-525; born into slavery to Brocca--a Christian, who was a slave--and Dubthach, a Leinster chieftain; many stories of Brigid's purity followed her childhood; Dubthach took her to the king of Leinster, intending to sell her, but the king convinced him to set Brigid free, saying, "Her merit, before God, is greater than ours"; Brigid founded a monastery in Kildare, and was reputedly a good friend of St. Patrick; she died of natural causes on February 1, 525
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/1/25
    • Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
    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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