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  • Daybreak for June 7, 2023
    • Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Willibald, 700-786; native of Wessex, England, brother of Saints Winebald and Walburga, and related, through his mother, to St. Boniface; assisted Boniface in his missionary work, and was ordained, and then became bishop of Eichstatt, in Franconia; founded a double monastery with his siblings, and made Winebald abbot, and Walburga abbess; served as bishop for four decades
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/23
    • Gospel: Mark 12:18-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 6, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, 1080-1134; founder of the Praemonstratensians, better known as the Norbertines, in the French region of Premontre; Norbert and his community converted heretics, reconciled enemies, and rebuilt the faith in indifferent believers; Norbert reluctantly became archbishop of Magdeburg, Germany, and continued his work for the Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/6/23
    • Gospel: Mark 12:13-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 5, 2023
    • Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Boniface, 675-754; apostle of the Germans; sent by Pope Gregory II to reform the German Church, which was rampant with paganism, and errors; his reform efforts were successful; Boniface and 53 others were massacred on their visit to the Frisians, preparing converts for confirmation
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/5/23
    • Gospel: Mark 12:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for Saturday, June 3, 2023
    • Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and Companions; 22 Ugandans who were martyred for refusing the homosexual advances of the Bagandan ruler, Mwanga; Charles was burned to death in 1886
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/3/23
    • Gospel: Mark 11:27-33
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 2, 2023
    • Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter; priest and exorcist, respectively; beheaded in 304 A.D.,during the persecution of Emperor Diocletian; Pope Damasus wrote an epitaph 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 6/2/23
    • Gospel: Mark 11:11-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 1, 2023
    • Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Justin, 100-165; philosopher who converted, because Christianity answered the great question of life and existence better than the ancient philosophers; became an apologist, defending Christianity against attacks and misunderstandings; for his stuanch adherence to Christinity, Justin was beheaded
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/1/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:46-52
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 31, 2023
    • Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
    • Wednesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/31/23
    • Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 30, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joan of Arc, 1412-1431; born of a fairly well-to-do couple southeast of Paris; began having visions at the age of 12; led French troops against the English and recaptured Orleans and Troyes; Joan was captured in 1430, sold to the English, and placed on trial for heresy and witchcraft; burned at the stake in 1431; a second Church trial 25 years later nullified the earlier verdict, reached under political pressure
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/30/23
    • Gospel: Mark 10:28-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 29, 2023
    • Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/29/23
    • Gospel: John 19:25-34
    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…