Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 9, 2023
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego, 1474-1548; Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared to Juan at Tepeyac hill on December 9, 1531; the roses gathered in his tilma were transformed into the miraculous image of Our Lady; in time he lived near the shrine constructed at Tepeyac, revered as a holy, unselfish, and compassionate catechist, who taught by word and especially by example
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/9/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 7, 2023
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Ambrose, 337-397; he was an otherworldly man involved in the great issues of his day; in his disputes with the Emperor Auxentius, he coined the principle: “The emperor is in the Church, not above the Church”; Ambrose was largely responsible for the conversion of St. Augustine
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/7/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2023
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, 270-343; Fourth-Century bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; the best known legend of St. Nicholas has him secretly helping a poor man to provide dowries for his marriage-age daughters; by a twist of the tongue, St. Nicholas, in legend, became Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2023
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Sabas, 439-532; became a monk at the age of 18, and was allowed to live in a remote cave for five days per week at the age of 30; moved farther into the desert, and was followed by some men who desired to join him in solitude; over the years, he traveled throughout Palestine, preaching the true faith and successfully bringing back many to the Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/23
    • Gospel: Luke 10:21-24
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2023
    • Monday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; 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 he is known as a poet, one of the two greatest of the Eastern Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 2, 2023
    • Saturday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bibiana, virgin and martyr; Bibiana and her sister Demetria suffered under the persecution of the Roman governor, Apronianus in the latter half of the Fourth Century; they were stripped of possessions, but remained in their house, praying and fasting; Apronianus summoned them, and Demetria professed her faith and fell dead at his feet; Bibiana was sent to a wicked woman, Rufina, who tried, unsuccessfully, to seduce her, Apronianus ordered Bibiana to be tied to a pillar and beaten with scourges, laden with lead plummets, until she expired
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/2/23
    • Gospel: Luke 21:34-36
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 1, 2023
    • Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Campion, 1540-1581; Jesuit convert to the Catholic faith; in England, he preached one to three times a day, mentally preparing his homilies while traveling on horseback, winning many converts; captured by Elizabethan authorities in July 1581, tortured on a rack, and sentenced to death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/1/23
    • Gospel: Luke 21:29-33
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 30, 2023
    • Feast of St. Andrew, apostle; brother of St. Peter; reputed to have preached the Good News in what is now modern Greece and Turkey and was crucified at Patras in about 60 A.D. on an X-shaped cross
    • Thursday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/30/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 4:18-22
    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…