Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 16, 2022
    • Tuesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary, 975-1038; as ruler of Hungary, he adopted a policy of Christianization of the country; he established a system of tithes to support churches and pastors, and to relieve the poor; he abolished pagan customs, and was easily accissible to all, especially the poor
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/16/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 15, 2022
    • Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary Into Heave - Proclaimed a dogma by Pope Pius XII on November 1, 1950
    • Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/15/22
    • Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 13, 2022
    • Saturday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus; Third Century pope and antipope, respectively, who were both exiled to the mines of Sardinia, where they reconciled, and both died as martyrs
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/13/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:13-15
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 12, 2022
    • Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; married Baron de Chantal, by whom she had six children, three of whom died in infancy; widowed, and with the help of St. Francis de Sales, founded the Visitation order; encouraged local authorities to assist victims of the plague, and put all her convents resources at the disposal of the sick
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/12/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 11, 2022
    • Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253; lifelong friend of St. Francis; received a habit from St. Francis, after which he placed her in a convent; others followed; Clare became abbess at age 21, a responsibility which she exercised until her death; served the sick, and washed the feet of the begging nuns; came from prayer with her face shining; received a vision of the community's vespers service while confined to a sickbed, and was thus designated the patroness of television
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/11/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:21-19:1
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 10, 2022
    • Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; Roman deacon under Pope Sixtus II, who was martyred; the prefect of Rome demanded that Lawrence present the "treasures of the Church"; Lawrence gathered blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed persons, and said, "These are the treasures of the Church"; Lawrence was burned on a gridiron, and was heard to say, "It is well done. Turn me over!"; patron saint of chefs
    • Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/22
    • Gospel: John 12:24-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 9, 2022
    • Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; abandoned Judaism, but was so taken with the autobiography of St. Teresa of Avila that she became a Catholic, and then a Carmelite nun; taken by the Nazis from the convent in the Netherlands, and died at Auschwitz in 1942
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 8, 2022
    • Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; commissioned to be part of a preaching crusade against the Albigensian heresy; his fellow preachers became a community, and in 1215 Dominic founded the Order of Preachers, also known as the Dominicans
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/8/22
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27
    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…