Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for March 8, 2023
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; abandoned the faith until age 40, then went to Africa hoping to free captive Christians; returned to Spain, and ran a religious goods store; moved by a sermon of St. John of Avila, he publicly beat himself, begging mercy and repenting--for which he was committed to a mental hospital; St. John of Avila advised him to tend to the needs of others; he established a house to tend to the sick poor. his helpers, 20 years after his death, formed the Brothers Hospitallers
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 20:17-28
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 7, 2023
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa, and Felicity--an expectant mother--was her slave; despite threats of persecution and death they and three companions refused to renounce their Christian faith; Perpetual and Felicity were beheaded, the others killed by beasts, in 203 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 6, 2023
    • Monday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: st. Colette, 1380-1447; became a Franciscan tertiary and lived at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France, as a solitary; but she left her cell in response to a dream which instructed her to reform the Poor Clares; she founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule, and reformed several older ones; known for sanctity, ecstasies', and visions of the Passion; prophesied her own death in her convent at Ghent, Belgium
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/23
    • Gospel: Luke 6:36-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 4, 2023
    • Saturday of the First Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; born in the line of kings, but lived an austere life even as a teen; his father, the king of Poland, sent him to take over Hungary, but Casimir's army was outnumbered, and he returned home, and returned to prayer and study; reigned briefly as king of Poland during his father's absence; died of lung trouble at 25
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/4/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 3, 2023
    • Friday of the First Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Katharine Drexel, 1858-1955; gave up her wealth and place in society to minister to Native and African-Americans; opened a boarding school in Santa Fe, New Mexico, followed by a string of foundations; by 1942, she had a system of black Catholic schools in 13 states, plus 40 mission centers, and 23 rural schools; forced to retire following a heart attack at age 77, and spent the rest of her life in prayer; died at the age of 96
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/3/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 2, 2023
    • Thursday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Agnes of Bohemia, 1211-1282; engaged twice as a child, but petitioned Pope Gregory IX to intercede for her; built a convent for the Friars Minor in Prague, where she took the veil; became abbess and was known for her humility, aid to the poor, and dedication to poverty
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/2/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:7-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 1, 2023
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. David of Wales, 500-589; became a priest and engaged in missionary work, and founded many monasteries; in 550, he attended a synod where he was elected primate of the region; ruled to an old age, and told his monks and subjects, "Be joyful, brothers and sisters. Keep your faith, and do the little things that you have seen and heard with me."
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/1/23
    • Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 28, 2023
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Oswald, 925-992; a Dane by birth, he studied in Fleury, France, where he was ordained; became Bishop of worcester in 962, and Archbishop of York in 972; worked to improve the morals of his clergy and increase their theological knowledge; revered as one of the three--along with Saints Dunstand and Ethelwold--who revived English monasticism
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/28/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 27, 2023
    • Monday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Anne Line; English martyr; disowned by her father when she married a Catholic; hid Catholic priests in a London safe house; aided Jesuit Father John Gerard until her arrest; hanged in Tyburn, February 27, 1601; one of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/27/23
    • Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46
    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…