Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for May 17, 2023
    • Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Paschal Baylon, 1540-1592; Franciscan lay brother, known for rigorous asceticism and love for the Blessed Sacrament; on a mission to France, he debated the doctrine of the Real Presence against a Calvinist preacher; patron of Eucharistic congresses and Eucharistic associations
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/17/23
    • Gospel: John 16:12-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 16, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Simon Stock, 1165-1265; accompanied a Carmelite community from the Holy Land to Europe, and founded many Carmelite communities; received an apparition from the Virgin Mary in 1251, in which she said, "Receive, my beloved son, this scapular of thy Order; it is the special sign of my favor, which I have obtained for the and for thy children of Mount Carmel. He who dies clothed with this habit shall be preserved from eternal fire."
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/16/23
    • Gospel: John 16:5-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 15, 2023
    • Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Isidore the Farmer, 1070-1130; born in Madrid, Spain, and spent most of his life as a laborer on a farm outside of the city; he was favored with celestial visions, and it is said that angels sometimes helped in his work; patron of farmers, and of the National Rural Life Conference in the United States
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/15/23
    • Gospel: John 15:26-16:4
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 12, 2023
    • Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Nereus and Achilleus; First Century martyrs, written of by Pope St. Damasus some 300 years after their deaths; they were soldiers in the Roman army, and converted by a "miracle of faith"; martyred, but by what means unknown
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/12/23
    • Gospel: John 15:12-17
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 11, 2023
    • Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Odilo of Cluny, 962-1049; born to a noble family in Auvergne, France; became a Benedictine in 990, and was elected abbot in 994; sold treasures of the Church to feed the poor during a famine in 1006; trusted advisor to popes and kings
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/11/23
    • Gospel: John 15:9-11
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 10, 2023
    • Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; born in Belgium joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; went to the Hawaiian leper colony on Molokai in 1873, and remained permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs; contracted Hansen's disease himself, and died of its complications
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/23
    • Gospel: John 15:1-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 9, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Pachomius, 292-348; after his discharge from the emperor's army, he was baptized, and joined an anchorite, Palemon; the two build a monastery on the banks of the Nile, and in a short time some one hundred monks joined them; ten other monasteries were built for men, and two nunneries for women; before Pachomius' death, there were seven thousand monks in his houses; his order lasted in the East until the 11th Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/9/23
    • Gospel: John 14:27-31
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 8, 2023
    • Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Victor Maurus; native of Mauretania; a Christian from his youth, but not arrested for the faith until he was an elderly man; tortured and executed under Maximian in Milan around 303 A.D.; a church was erected over his grave, and many miracles were reported at the shrine
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/8/23
    • Gospel: John 14:21-26
    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…