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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for June 9, 2026
    • Tuesday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Ephrem, 306-373; poet, teacher, orator, and defender of the faith, Saint Ephrem is the only Syriac Christian recognized as a doctor of the Church; he had a prolific pen; although he was not a man of great scholarship, his works reflect deep insight and knowledge of the Scriptures; he wrote hymns against the heretics of his day; he would take the popular songs of the heretical groups and using their melodies, compose beautiful hymns embodying orthodox doctrine; he lived in a small cave overlooking the city of Edessa; it was here that he died around 373
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/9/26
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 8, 2026
    • Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Maximinus of Aix; first bishop of Aix, in Provence, France, reportedly one of Christ’s seventy-two disciples and a companion of Saints Mary Magdalen, Mary Cleopas, Martha, and Lazarus; in one account, he is called "the man who had been blind from birth"; Maximinus died in the First Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/8/26
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 6, 2026
    • Saturday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, 1080-1134; in an effort to reform and revitalize his fellow priests,he founded the Norbertine order in 1121; following the rule of St. Augustine, St. Norbert recognized that meaningful clerical reform could only flow from a monastic life -- priests living under a common roof, offering common prayer, and sharing a common table
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/6/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:38-44
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 5, 2026
    • Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Boniface, 680-754; sent by Pope Gregory to consolidate the missions in Germany; he became a bishop, and later papal legate. at almost 80, he resigned his positions and retired to Frisia as a missionary, where he was martyred while reading a book
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/5/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:35-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 4, 2026
    • Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Petroc; Sixth Century son of a Welsh king; he became a monk, and went with some friends to Ireland to study; they went to Cornwall, in England, and spent thirty years there; Petroc then made a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, at which time he is also reputed to have reached the Indian ocean where he lived for some time as a hermit on an island; he returned to Cornwall, established a community of his followers, and then became a hermit; he was known for his miracles, and died in 564 while visiting some of his disciples
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/4/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:28-34
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 3, 2026
    • Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and companions; Charles was born in 1860, and he became a page in the royal court of Mwanga, the king of the Baganda in the south of what is now Uganda; the king was hostile to Christians, and when Joseph Mkasa, master of the pages and a Catholic, tried to protect the young pages, he was beheaded; Charles was appointed to succeed him; the king demanded that all remaining pages renounce their Christian faith, and when they refused, they were burned to death in 1886
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/3/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:18-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 2, 2026
    • Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter; martyrs under Diocletian's persecution in the early Fourth Century; holding to their faith, they converted the prison keeper, Artemius, and his wife and daughter to Christianity; they were martyred, and later honored by Constantine the Great, who built a basilica in their honor; they are mentioned in the Canon of the Mass
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/2/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 1, 2026
    • Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Justin; Second Century martyr and apologist; he came to believe God’s message was embodied in Christian teachings and his conversion account describes that Christian moral beauty and truth brought him to Christ; his writings are well-respected to this day and include such works as A Discourse to the Greeks, On the Soul, and The First and Second Apology, addressed to the Roman Senate
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/1/26
    • Gospel: Mark 12:1-12
    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…