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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for November 16, 2021
    • Tuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Margaret of Scotland, 1045-1093; fled, with her family, from William the Conqueror to Scotland; King Malcom married Margaret in 1070; Margaret promoted arts, education, and religious reform; her private life was austere, devoting much time to prayer and devotions
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/16/21
    • Gospel: Luke 19:1-10
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 15, 2021
    • Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; German Dominican known as “the master of Thomas Aquinas”; wrote a compendium of all knowledge of his day; patron of scientists and philosophers
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/21
    • Gospel: Luke 18:35-43
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 13, 2021
    • Saturday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1850-1917; traveled from Italy to New York City at the urging of Pope Leo XIII; founded 67 institutions dedicated to caring for the poor, the abandoned, the uneducated, and the sick; the first United States citizen to be canonized
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/13/21
    • Gospel: Luke 18:1-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 12, 2021
    • Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Josaphat, 1580-1623; as bishop of Vtebsk, he promoted the union of the Eastern and Western Churches; a dissident hierarchy spread the accusation that Josaphat had “gone Latin”; in Vtebsk, he was mobbed, struck with a halberd, and shot, and his body thrown into the river; first saint of the Eastern Church canonized by Rome
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/12/21
    • Gospel: Luke 17:26-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 11, 2021
    • Thursday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, 316-397; forced to serve in the army at 15; became a Christian, was discharged, and became a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers; Martin established what may have been the first French monastery near Poitiers; he was reluctantly consecrated bishop of Tours; he rejected the principle of putting heretics to death; and at his own death, he prayed, “Lord, if your people still need me, I do not refuse the work. Your will be done.”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/11/21
    • Gospel: Luke 17:20-25
    51 min
  • Daybreak for November 10, 2021
    • Wednesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Pope St. Leo the Great; elected pope in 440; one of the best administrative popes of the ancient Church; he dealt with heresies, doctrinal controversy, and barbarian attack against Rome; died in 461 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/10/21
    • Gospel: Luke 17:11-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 9, 2021
    • Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rome
    • Tuesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/9/21
    • Gospel: John 2:13-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 8, 2021
    • Monday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saints of the Day: The Four Crowned Martyrs; two groups bear this title–one was a group of carvers who refused to carve a pagan statue, and were martyred by Diocletian in Pannonia; the second group was martyred in Albano, Italy
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/8/21
    • Gospel: Luke 17:1-6
    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…