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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 Father’... more
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 1,682 episodes available.
June 02, 2025Daybreak for June 2, 2025 Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter; Marcellinus was a priest, and Peter was an exorcist; they were beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian in 304 A.D.; Pope Damasus wrote an epitaph apparently based on the report of their executioner, and Constantine erected a basilica over the crypt in which they were buried in Rome Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/2/25 Gospel: John 16:29-33 ...more52minPlay
June 01, 2025Daybreak for June 1, 2025 Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (in many areas) Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/1/25 Gospel: Luke 24:46-53 ...more1hPlay
May 31, 2025Daybreak for May 31, 2025 Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/31/25 Gospel: Luke 1:39-56 ...more1hPlay
May 30, 2025Daybreak for May 30, 2025 Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Joan of Arc, 1412-1431; born southeast of Paris, Joan was only twelve when she heard the voices of Saints Michael the Archangel, Catherine of Alexandria, and Margaret of Antioch; during the Hundred Years War, Joan led French troops against the English and recaptured the cities of Orléans and Troyes; Joan was captured near Compiegne, and accused of heresy and witchcraft; in the end, she was condemned for wearing men's clothes, and was burned at the stake; a second Church trial 25 years later nullified the verdict, which was reached under political pressure Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/30/25 Gospel: John 16:20-23 ...more52minPlay
May 29, 2025Daybreak for May 29, 2025 Solemnity of the Ascension of the Lord (for some dioceses) Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/29/25 Gospel: Luke 24:46:53 ...more52minPlay
May 28, 2025Daybreak for May 28, 2025 Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Bernard of Montjoux, 923-1008; born in Italy, became a priest, and was made vicar general of Aosta, and spent more than four decades doing missionary work in the Alps; he built schools and hospices, but is best remembered for the hospices he built to aid lost travelers; Bernard is the patron of mountaineers, skiiers, and the Alps Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/28/25 Gospel: John 16:12-15 ...more52minPlay
May 27, 2025Daybreak for May 27, 2025 Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury; left Rome in 596 to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons in England; King Ethelbert welcomed him kindly, set up a residence for Augustine and his monks in Canterbury, and was, himself, baptized on Pentecost Sunday, 597; Augustine was consecrated a bishop in France, and returned to Canterbury, where he built a church and monastery near the present site of the cathedral; he is the "Apostle of England" Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/27/25 Gospel: John 16:5-11 ...more52minPlay
May 26, 2025Daybreak for May 26, 2025 Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter Memorial of St. Philip Neri, 1515-1595; moved to Rome at a young age, to devote his life to God; he spent 13 years engaged in prayer and apostolate; laypeople gathered around him, and they met as an informal prayer and discussion group, and also served poor people in Rome; at the urging of his confessor, Philip was ordained a priest and soon became an outstanding confessor himself, gifted with the knack of piercing the pretenses and illusions of others, though always in a charitable manner and often with a joke; some of Philip's followers became priests and lived in community, the beginning of the Oratory; Philip's characteristic virtues were humility and gaiety; he died after suffering a hemorrhage on the feast of Corpus Christi, 1595 Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/26/25 Gospel: John 15:26-16:4a ...more52minPlay
May 25, 2025Daybreak for May 25, 2025 Sixth Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/25/25 Gospel: John 14:23-29 ...more1hPlay
May 24, 2025Daybreak for May 24, 2025 Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Joanna; wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas; she was one of the women who helped provide for Jesus and the apostles; she was also one of the three women who discovered the empty tomb of Jesus on the first Easter morning Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/24/25 Gospel: John 16:20-23 ...more1hPlay
FAQs about Daybreak:How many episodes does Daybreak have?The podcast currently has 1,682 episodes available.