Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 17, 2022
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. John of Martha, 1160-1213; founded the Order of the Most Holy Trinity, to ransom Christian captives from the Moslems; the order spread to France, Spain, Italy, and England, sent many of its members to North Africa, and redeemed many prisoners; John died in Rome
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/17/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 16, 2022
    • Friday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 932-999; born in Burgundy, married at 15 or 16, widowed, and imprisoned by her husband's usurper; escaped to Canossa, where she was helped by Otto of Germany, who married her; she established many monasteries and churches
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/16/22
    • Gospel: John 5:33-36
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 15, 2022
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at 17 to manager her widowed father's household; she was attracted to the convent, and took care of spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills; worked in a Brescia hospital during the 1836 cholera epidemic; founded a home for girls and a school for deaf-mutes; became superior of the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/22
    • Gospel: Luke 7:24-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 14, 2022
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. John of the Cross, 1542-1591; Carmelite priest who, with St. Teresa of Avila, set about reforming the Carmelite order; he experienced opposition, misunderstanding, persecution, and imprisonment; known especially for the "Spiritual Canticle" and "Ascent of Mount Carmel"
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/14/22
    • Gospel: Luke 7:18-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 13, 2022
    • Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Lucy, 283-304; a disappointed suitor accused her--accurately--of being a Christian, and she was executed in Syracuse, Sicily; Lucy is the patroness of eyesight
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 10, 2022
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Loreto, referring to the house in which Mary was born and raised, and in which the angel Gabriel visited her; tradiiton holds that angels miraculous transported the house from Palestine to Loreto, Italy, in the 13th Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/10/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 9, 2022
    • Friday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego, 1474-1548; forever linked with Our Lady of Guadalupe, for it was to him that she appeared; he later lived near the shrine constructed at Mount Tepeyac, revered as a holy, unselfish, compassionate catechist
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/9/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 8, 2022
    • Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary; Pope Pius IX proclaimed in 1854 that the Blessed Virgin was preserved from the stain of original sin from the moment of her conception
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/8/22
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    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…