Daybreak

By Relevant Radio

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 Father’... more

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October 01, 2025Daybreak for October 1, 2025
Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux, 1873-1897; lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent of Lisieux, France and her preference for hidden sacrifice converted souls; her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, is read and loved throughout the world; Thérèse Martin entered the convent at the age of 15 and died in 1897 at the age of 24; she came to Carmel “to save souls and pray for priests”; shortly before she died, she wrote: “I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth”

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/1/25

Gospel: Luke 9:57-62
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52min
September 30, 2025Daybreak for September 30, 2025
Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Jerome, 345-420; known for his bad temper; but he was a great scripture scholar, translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew; he also wrote commentaries which are a great source of scriptural inspiration for us today; he was an avid student, a thorough scholar, a prodigious letter-writer and a consultant to monk, bishop, and pope; Saint Augustine said of him, “What Jerome is ignorant of, no mortal has ever known”; he made a translation of the Bible which came to be called the Vulgate; he spent five years in the desert, and then settled in Bethlehem, where he died

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/30/25

Gospel: Luke 9:51-56
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52min
September 29, 2025Daybreak for September 29, 2025
Feast of the Archangels, Saints Michael, Gabriel, and Raphael

Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/29/25

Gospel: John 1:47-51
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52min
September 28, 2025Daybreak for September 28, 2025
26th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/28/25

Gospel: Luke 16:19-31
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1h
September 27, 2025Daybreak for September 27, 2025
Saturday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Vincent de Paul, 1580-1660; Vincent became the leader of what is now known as the Congregation of the Mission, or the Vincentians; these priests, with vows of poverty, chastity, obedience, and stability, were to devote themselves entirely to the people in smaller towns and villages; he also founded several hospitals, collected relief funds for the victims of war, and ransomed over 1,200 galley slaves from North Africa; he was zealous in conducting retreats for clergy; known as an irascible person, even to his friends, Vincent became a tender and affectionate man, very sensitive to the needs of others

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/27/25

Gospel: Luke 9:43b-45
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1h
September 26, 2025Daybreak for September 26, 2025
Friday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of Saints Cosmas and Damian, brothers born in Arabia, who were proficient in the science of medicine; as Christians, they refused payment for their treatment; when the persecution of Diocletian broke out, they became marked objects of persecution; they were apprehended and underwent various torments in about the year 283; they are the patrons of pharmacists

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/26/25

Gospel: Luke 9:18-22
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52min
September 25, 2025Daybreak for September 25, 2025
Thursday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Cleophas; he was one of the two disciples who met Christ on the road to Emmaus; he was also identified as the father of Mary, one of whom stood with the Mother of God at the foot of the Cross; he has been identified as the father of St. James the Less and as brother of St. Joseph; he died in the First Century

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/25/25

Gospel: Luke 9:7-9
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52min
September 24, 2025Daybreak for September 24, 2025
Wednesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Rupert of Salzberg; he was bishop of Worms in the Seventh Century when he was called to evangelize Bavaria; Duke Theodo II gave him land, on which he established the Abbey of St. Peter and the Nonnburg Convent; he converted pagan temples into Christian churches, and established the salt-mining industry, from which the city of Salzberg gets its name; when Rupert died in about 710, he was buried in St. Peter's Abbey, but his relics were later translated to the Cathedral at Salzberg

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/24/25

Gospel: Luke 9:1-6
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52min
September 23, 2025Daybreak for September 23, 2025
Tuesday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Pius of Pietrelcina, better known as Padre Pio, 1887-1968; grew up in a farming family in southern Italy; joined the Capuchins at the age of 15; on September 20, 1918, he had a vision of Jesus, and at the end of the vision, he had the stigmata in his hands, feet, and side; busloads of people came to see him, and in time his confessional ministry lasted ten hours per day

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/23/25

Gospel: Luke 8:19-21
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52min
September 22, 2025Daybreak for September 22, 2025
Monday of the 25th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Phocas the Gardener; in the third century, he cultivated a garden near the city gate of Sinope, now in Turkey; he shared with the poor what he earned from his gardening, and opened his home to travelers lacking a place to stay; the the pagan Romans became aware of him, and sent soldiers to find and arrest him; soldiers stopped at Phocas’ door and received lodging from him, unaware that their host was the man they were charged to capture; the next morning, he revealed to them his identity; at first, the soldiers were reluctant to carry out their orders against their kind host, but in the end they beheaded him; Phocas is venerated as a patron saint of both gardeners and mariners

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/22/25

Gospel: Luke 8:16-18
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52min

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