Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 6, 2021
    • Monday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, 270-343; Fourth Century bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, province of Asia Minor; legend has it that he tossed bags of gold through a poor man’s window so that his daughters could be dowried, and married; in the English-speaking world, St. Nicholas has become known as Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/21
    • Gospel: Luke 5:17-26
    50 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2021
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memoral of St. John Damascene, 676-749; followed his father in a government position under the Arabs; resigned, and went to the monastery of St. Sabas; known for his writings against the iconoclasts, for his treatise, “Exposition of the Orthodox Faith,” and as a poet
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/21
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2021
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; Ignatius of Loyola brought him to Christ, and Francis joined the Jesuits; Francis went to Lisbon, and on to the East Indies, landing at Goa, on the west coast of India, where he stayed for ten years; he lived with the poorest people, sharing their food and rough accomodations; he ministered to the sick and poor, especially to lepers; he went through the islands of Malaysia, then up to Japan; he had dreams of going to China, but died before reaching the mainland
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/21
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    50 min
  • Daybreak for December 2, 2021
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bibiana; Fourth Century virgin and martyr; her parents were killed in a persecution; she and her sister spent their time in fasting and prayer in their house; her sister confessed her faith the governor, and then fell dead at his feet; Bibiana was placed in the hands of a wicked woman who tried, unsuccessfully, to seduce her; Bibiana was eventually beaten with scourges until she died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/2/21
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    50 min
  • Daybreak for December 1, 2021
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Campion, 1540-1581; English convert who became a Jesuit priest; preached up to three times per day, traveling on horseback across the English countryside; captured by authorities in 1581, tortured, and sentenced to death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/1/21
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    50 min
  • Daybreak for November 29, 2021
    • Monday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Radbod of Utrecht, 850-917; great-grandson of the last pagan King of Friesland; educated by his uncle, the bishop of Cologne; became bishop of Utrecht in 900; known for his aid to the poor, and for his poetry; died in France, where he was forced to move after an invasion by the Danes
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/29/21
    • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
    50 min
  • Daybreak for November 27, 2021
    • Saturday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. James Intercisus, 380-421; Christian servant of Persian royalty who apostasized when a persecution was launched; he later repented, and declared himself to be a Christian to the king; he was executed by having his body cut apart, thus his name, “Intercisus”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/27/21
    • Gospel: Luke 21:34-36
    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…