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February 23, 2024Daybreak for February 23, 2024
Friday of the First Week of Lent

Commemoration of St. Polycarp, 69-155; bishop of Smyrna, disciple of Saint John the Apostle and friend of Saint Ignatius of Antioch; only one of the many letters written by Polycarp has been preserved, the one he wrote to the Church of Philippi in Macedonia; at 86, Polycarp was led into the crowded Smyrna stadium to be burned alive. The flames did not harm him and he was finally killed by a dagger

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/23/24

Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
52 min
February 22, 2024Daybreak for February 22, 2024
Feast of the Chair of St. Peter; commemorating Christ’s choosing Peter to sit in his place as the servant-authority of the whole Church

Thursday of the First Week of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/22/24

Gospel: Matthew 16:13-19
52 min
February 21, 2024Daybreak for February 21, 2024
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

Commemoration of St. Peter Damian, 988-1072; joined the Benedictines, and became abbot; Pope Stephen IX made him cardinal-bishop of Ostia, where he battled simony, and encouraged his priests to observe celibacy and urged even the diocesan clergy to live together and maintain scheduled prayer and religious observance; upon his retirement, he continued to serve as a papal legate; on one such assignment in Ravenna, he was overcome with fever, and died with his monks gathered around him praying the Divine Office

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/21/24

Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
52 min
February 20, 2024Daybreak for February 20, 2024
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

Saints of the Day: Saints Jacinta (1910-1920) and Francisco (1908-1919); Jacinta, Francisco, and their cousin Lucia Dos Santos, received apparitions of Our Lady from May 13 to October 13, 1917, near Fatima, Portugal; they were told to learn to read and write, and to pray the rosary to bring an end to the war

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/20/24

Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
52 min
February 19, 2024Daybreak for February 19, 2024
Monday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Colman of Lindisfarne, 605-675; Irish bishop of Lindisfarne, England, a disciple of St. Columba; defended Celtic ecclesiastical practices, and led a group of Irish and English monks to the Isle of Innishboffin, near Connaught, later moving the English monks to Mayo

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/19/24

Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46
52 min
February 18, 2024Daybreak for February 18, 2024
First Sunday of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/18/24

Gospel: Mark 1:12-15
1 hr
February 17, 2024Daybreak for February 17, 2024
Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Commemoration of the Seven Founders of the Servite Order; in 1240, seven noblemen of Florence mutually decided to withdraw from the city to a solitary place for prayer and direct service of God; in 1244, they adopted a religious habit similar to the Dominican habit, choosing to live under the Rule of St. Augustine and adopting the name of the Servants of Mary; they came to the United States from Austria in 1852 and settled in New York and later in Philadelphia; members combined monastic life and active ministry

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/17/24

Gospel: Luke 5:27-32
1 hr
February 16, 2024Daybreak for February 16, 2024
Friday after Ash Wednesday

Saint of the Day: St. Daniel; lived in the Third and Fourth Centuries; he and four companions, Elias, Isaias, Jeremy and Samuel were Egyptians who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of Cilicia during Maximus' persecution; they were arrested at the gates of Caesaria, Palestine, accused of being Christians, and beheaded; Porphyry, a servant of St. Pamphilus demanded that the bodies be buried, and he was tortured and then burned to death when it was found he was a Christian; Seleucus witnessed his death and applauded his constancy in the face of his terrible death; whereupon he was arrested and beheaded; St. Daniel and his companions died in 309 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/16/24

Gospel: Mark 9:14-15
52 min
February 15, 2024Daybreak for February 15, 2024
Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Saint of the Day: St. Jordan; Jordan of Saxony met St. Dominic in Paris, and became a Dominican himself in 1220; in 1222, on the death of Dominic, Jordan was elected second master general of the Dominicans; he expanded the order, sent missionaries to Denmark, and frequently preached at universities to young students; St. Albert the Great became a Dominican after hearing one of his sermons; Jordan died in 1237 in a shipwreck on the coast of Syria
52 min
February 14, 2024Daybreak for February 14, 2024
Ash Wednesday - The Beginning of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/14/24

Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
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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