Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for January 16, 2023
    • Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Fursey; 7th Century Irish monastic founder; founded Rathmat Abbey; in 630, he went to East Anglia, where he founded a monastery near Ugremouth; later, he went to France to build a monastery near Paris; St. Bede and other wrote about his intense ecstasies; died 650 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/16/23
    • Gospel: Mark 2:18-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 14, 2023
    • Saturday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Felix of Nola; third century heir to an estate in Italy, who donated it to the poor; ordained by Bishop St. Maximus; Maximus fled a persecution, and Felix was seized, but reputedly released by an angel, and brought Maximus back to Nola; Felix spent the rest of his life on a small piece of land, sharing with the poor; died 255 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/14/23
    • Gospel: Mark 2:13-17
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for January 13, 2023
    • Friday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Hilary, 315-368; raised a pagan, met the God of nature in scriptures, and converted; fought the Arian heresy, and was banished from France by the Emperor; some semi-Arians invited him to a council to countereact the Council of Nicea, but he defended the Church; the Arians pleaded with the emperor to "send this troublemaker back home"; Hilary was welcome by his people
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/13/23
    • Gospel: Mark 2:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 12, 2023
    • Thursday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Benedict Biscop, 628-690; served King Oswui of Northumbria as a warrior until his first of numerous visits to Rome; appointed abbot of Saints Peter and Paul monastery (now St. Augustine's) in Canterbury; assured Pope Agatho of the orthodoxy of the English church; and brought back many additions to th elibraries at Wearmouth and Jarrow
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/12/23
    • Gospel: Mark 1:40-45
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 11, 2023
    • Wednesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch, 423-529; born in Cappadocia (modern Turkey); entered a monastery, and was later named head of a church between Jerusalem and Bethlehem; departed to live as a hermit; attracted many followers, and built a monastery; appointed visitor to all of the cenobitical communities of Palestine; opposed the spread of the heretical doctrines of Eutychianism
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/11/23
    • Gospel: Mark 1:29-39
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 10, 2023
    • Tuesday of the First Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gregory of Nyssa, 335-395; brother of St. Basil the great, who raised him, along with their sister Macrina; became bishop of Nyssa in 372, a period of tension over the Arian heresy; Gregory wrote with great effectiveness against Ariansim and other heresies; he is seen as a great contributor to the mystical tradition in Christian spiritiuality, and to monasticism itself
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/10/23
    • Gospel: Mark 1:21-28
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 7, 2023
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Christmas
    • Optional Memorial of St. Raymond of Pennafort, 1175-1275; became a famous teacher, and gave it up to join the Dominicans; with King James of Aragon and St. Peter Nolasco he founded the Order of Our Lady of Ransom; went with King James to Majorca, where the king set a poor example; Raymond told him to send the woman away, but the king did not; Raymond left the island miraculously, and the king repented; St. Raymond is the patron of canonists
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/7/23
    • Gospel: John 2:1-11
    1 hr

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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…