Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 12, 2024
    • Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe; in 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a poor Indian in Mexico, and asked him to have the bishop of Mexico build a chapel on the site; she provided roses as a sign; when Juan Diego opened his tilma, the roses fell to the ground, and the bishop fell to his knees before an image of Our Lady imprinted on the tilma
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/12/24
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 11, 2024
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Damasus I, 304-384; son of a Roman priest, under whom he served as a deacon; served Pope Liberius, whom he succeeded as pope; however, a minority elected an antipope; supporters of the antipope even accused Damasus of a grave crime; he had to go before a civil court and a church synod to clear himself; as pope, he fiercely denounced Arianism and other heresies
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/11/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 10, 2024
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: Pope St. Gregory III; fought with Emperor Leo III, who attacked the veneration of holy images; Gregory called a synod which approved strong measures against anyone who attempted to destroy images of Jesus, Mary, or the saints; Leo sent ships to kidnap Gregory, but his ships were destroyed in a storm, and Leo was only able to capture some of the papal lands; Gregory was pope from 731 to 741 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/10/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 9, 2024
    • Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred from December 8)
    • Monday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/9/24
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 7, 2024
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Ambrose, 337-397; Ambrose cut a furrow through the lives of his contemporaries; even royal personages suffered divine punishment for standing in his way; but another side of Ambrose was one which influenced Augustine of Hippo, whom Ambrose converted; Ambrose was a passionate little man with a high forehead, a long melancholy face, and great eyes
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/7/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2024
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra, 270-343; bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; the best-known story about him has him secretly throwing a bag of gold through the window of a poor man, three times, so that his daughters could marry; by a twist of the tongue, St. Nicholas became Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2024
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gerald; French abbot; in the latter portion of the Eleventh Century, he was appointed choir director of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, as part of an ecclesiastical reform; he did his work so well that he was appointed bishop of Braga; he visited his diocese, and eradicated abuses which had cropped up; he died December 5, 1109, in Portugal
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2024
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; born in Damascus, and followed his father in a government position under the Arabs; he resigned, and went to the monastery of St. Sabas; he is famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, who opposed the veneration of images; for his treatise, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a summary of the Greek Fathers, of which he became the last; and for his poetry--he was one of the greatest poets of the Eastern Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2024
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; joined the infant Society of Jesus in 1534; ordained in 1537, and went to Lisbon; from there sailed to the East Indies, landing at Goa, on the west coast of India; for the next 10 years he labored to bring the faith to such widely scattered peoples as the Hindus, the Malayans, and the Japanese; he longed to go to China, but he died before reaching the mainland
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:21-24
    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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