Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 27, 2022
    • Saturday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Monica, 330-387; distressed at her son Augustine's acceptance of the Manichean heresy, shoe followed him to Milan, where both came under the influence of St. Ambrose; Augustine was baptized at Easter 387; shortly after, Monica became ill and died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/27/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 26, 2022
    • Friday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages, 1773-1838; under the guidance of St. Andrew Fournet, she devoted herself to teaching and caring for the sick and needy; joined the Carmelites, then the Society of Providence, and founded the Daughters of the Cross, also known as the Sisters of St. Andrew
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/26/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 25:1-13
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 25, 2022
    • Thursday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Louis IX, 1213-1270; protected French clergy from secular leaders; enforced laws against blasphemy; established the Sorbonne and three monasteries; led two crusades, the Sixth and Seventh, and died at the beginning of the Seventh
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/25/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 24:42-51
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 24, 2022
    • Feast of St. Bartholomew, apostle; the Roman Martyrology says he preached in India and Greater Armenia, where he was flayed and beheaded
    • Wednesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/24/22
    • Gospel: John 1:45-51
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 23, 2022
    • Tuesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, 1586-1617; forbidden by her parents to enter a convent, so she lived a life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of St. Dominic; cared for homeless children, the elderly, and the sick in her house; at her death, the city turned out for her funeral
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/23/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:23-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 22, 2022
    • Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of the Queenship of the Blessed Virgin Mary; her queenship is a share in Jesus' kingship; a follow-up to the Assumption, celebrated on the octave day of that feast
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/22/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:13-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 19, 2022
    • Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Eudes, 1601-1680; founded the Eudists, the Congregation of Jesus and Mary, devoted to the formation of the clergy; founded several seminaries in Normandy; disturbed by the sad condition of prostitutes who wanted to escape that life, he founded the Sisters of Charity of the Refuge
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/19/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 18, 2022
    • Thursday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Helena, 248-328; mother of Emperor Constantine the Great; helped re-establish Christianity in the Holy Land, after a period of decline; discovered relics of the True Cross
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/18/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 22:1-14
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 17, 2022
    • Wednesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Clare of Montefalco, 1268-1308; joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries and succeeded her sister as abbess; let an austere life, devoted to the Passion of Christ and His Cross; on her death, an image of the Cross was found imprinted on her heart, and her body remained incorrupt
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/17/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16
    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…