Daybreak

By Relevant Radio

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

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November 21, 2025Daybreak for November 21, 2025
Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a feast of the Universal Church since the 16th Century; this celebration continues the impact of the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of the birth of Mary

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/21/25

Gospel: Luke 19:45-48
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52min
November 20, 2025Daybreak for November 20, 2025
Thursday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Rich, 1175-1240; he studied at Oxford and Paris, and taught art and mathematics, and was ordained; he taught theology for eight years, and became canon and treasurer of the Salisbury Cathedral; he preached a Crusade for Pope Gregoy IX, and was made Archbishop of Canterbury; he resigned his see in 1240, and went to France, where he became a Cistercian; he died at Soissons

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/20/25

Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
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52min
November 19, 2025Daybreak for November 19, 2025
Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Raphael Kalinowski, 1835-1907; Polish Discalced Carmelite friar; he was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest, who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/19/25

Gospel: Luke 19:11-28
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52min
November 18, 2025Daybreak for November 18, 2025
Tuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, 1769-1852; born in Grenoble, France, to a family of the "new rich"; at 19, she entered the convent of the Visitation of Mary; when the French revolution broke out, the convent was closed, and she began taking care of the poor and sick, opened a school for homeless children, and risked her life helping priests in the underground; when the situation cooled, Rose entered the infant Society of the Sacred Heart; but her ambition was to go to America to work with the Indians; she spent 11 weeks at sea en route to New Orleans, and seven weeks more on the Mississippi to St. Louis; the bishop had no place for Rose and her nuns to work with native Americans; he sent her to St. Charles, Missouri; when Rose was 72, a mission was founded at Sugar Creek, Kansas, among the Potawatomi and she was taken along; she was unable to learn their language, but they nicknamed her "Woman-Who-Prays-Always"; she died in 1852, at the age of 83

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/18/25

Gospel: Luke 19:1-10
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52min
November 17, 2025Daybreak for November 17, 2025
Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Elizabeth of Hungary, 1207-1231; at age 14, she married Louis of Thuringia; she led a life of prayer, sacrifice, and service to the poor and sick; her husband died in the Crusades, and his family believed that Elizabeth was squandering the royal purse, and kicked her out of the palace; but she was reinstated when her husband's allies returned home, since her son was the legal heir to the throne; in 1228, Elizabeth joined the Secular Franciscan Order, spending the remaining few years of her life caring for the poor in a hospital which she founded in honor of Saint Francis of Assisi; Elizabeth’s health declined, and she died before her 24th birthday in 1231

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/17/25

Gospel: Luke 18:35-43
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52min
November 16, 2025Daybreak for November 16, 2025
33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/16/25

Gospel: Luke 21:5-19
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1h
November 15, 2025Daybreak for November 15, 2025
Saturday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam; master of St. Thomas Aquinas; over 20 years, he wrote a compendium of all knowledge-- natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics; he is the patron of scientists and philosophers

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/25

Gospel: Luke 18:1-8
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1h
November 14, 2025Daybreak for November 14, 2025
Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Lawrence O'Toole, 1128-1180; born at Leinster; he was taken hostage in a raid, and was surrendered to the bishop of Glendalough; he became a monk, and was named Archbishop of Dublin in 1161; he helped negotiate with the English following their invasion of Ireland, and in 1172 convened a synod at Cashel; he also attended the General Lateran Council in Rome in 1179, and was named papal legate to Ireland; he died in Normandy, France, while on a mission to King Henry II of England

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/14/25

Gospel: Luke 17:26-37
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52min
November 13, 2025Daybreak for November 13, 2025
Thursday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1850-1917; made her vows and took the religious habit at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadogno, Italy; when the orphanage was shut down, she and six nuns went to New York City to serve the Italian immigrants; in 35 years, Frances Xavier Cabrini founded 67 institutions dedicated to caring for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated and the sick; she died of malaria in her own Columbus Hospital in Chicago in 1917

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/13/25

Gospel: Luke 17:20-25
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52min
November 12, 2025Daybreak for November 12, 2025
Wednesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Josaphat, 1580-1623; born in what is now Ukraine, he became a Basilian monk, then a priest, and soon was well known as a preacher and an ascetic; he became bishop of Vitebsk and archbishop of Polotsk; most monks, fearing interference in liturgy and customs, did not want union with Rome; Josaphat went to Vitebsk, where he was martyred, and his body thrown into the river; it was recovered, and is now buried at St. Peter's in Rome; Josaphat is the first saint of the Eastern Church to be canonized by Rome

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/12/25

Gospel: Luke 17:11-19
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52min

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The podcast currently has 1,862 episodes available.