Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 7, 2022
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Ambrose, 337-397; bishop and doctor of the Church; widely admired and disliked; responsible for the conversion of St. Augustine of Hippo; an otherworldly man involved in the great issues of his day
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/7/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2022
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, 270-343; bishop of Myra, in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; reputed to have secretly delivered gold to a poor man so that his daughters would have dowries, and be able to marry; the basis of the modern day Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2022
    • Monday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gerald; appointed choir director of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, in the 11th Century; later selected as bishop of Braga, where he eradicated abuses; died December 5, 1109
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/22
    • Gospel: Luke 5:17-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2022
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; brought to Christ by Ignatius of Loyola, and joined the Jesuits; spent 10 years at Goa, India, bringing the faith to Hindus, Malayans, and Japanese; wanted to go to China, but died before reaching the mainland
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 2, 2022
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bibiana; Fourth Century virgin and martyr of the persecution of Apronianus; she and her sister were stripped of possessions and left to suffer poverty, but they spent their time in prayer and fasting; Apronianus summoned them, and Bibiana's sister Demetria confessed her faith and fell dead; Bibiana was sentenced to scourging until she died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/2/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 1, 2022
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Campion, 1540-1581; Protestant convert to the Catholic faith; became a Jesuit, and was ordained a priest; preached up to three times per day in England, traveling by horseback; captured in 1581, tortured, and executed
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/1/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 30, 2022
    • Feast of St. Andrew, apostle; brother of Simon Peter; legend says the he preached in what is now modern Greece and Turkey, and was crucified at Patras on an X-shaped cross, about 60 A.D.
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/30/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 4:18-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 29, 2022
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Radbod of Utrecht, 850-917; great grandson of the last paga King of Friesland, Holland; became bishop of Utrecht in 900; know for his aid to the poor, and for his poetry; forced to move his see to France, due to invasion by the Danes, and died there
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/29/22
    • Gospel: Luke 10:21-24
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 28, 2022
    • Monday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. James of the Marche, 1394-1476; joined the Friars Minor, and studied with St. John of Capistrano; preached all over Italy and through 13 central and eastern European countries; established nonprofit credit organizations which lent money on pawned objects at low rates, making him one of the fathers of the modern pawnshop
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/28/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
    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…