Daybreak

Daybreak

By Relevant RadioReligion & SpiritualityChristianity
Download on the App Store

Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for April 18, 2026
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Apollonius the Apologist; Second Century martyr whose defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church; he was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves; the Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him, also putting the slave to death as an informer; Perennis demanded that Apollonius denounce the faith, and when he refused, the case was remanded to the Roman senate; there a debate took place between Perennis and Apollonius that clearly outlined the beauty and the value of Christianity; despite his eloquent defense, Apollonius was condemned and beheaded in 185
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/18/26
    • Gospel: John 6:16-21
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for April 17, 2026
    • Friday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Robert of Chaise Dieu; Eleventh Century Benedictine abbot and founder; born in Auvergne, France, became a priest and canon of St. Julian's in Brioude; he then founded a hospice and became spiritual director of St. Odilo in Cluny; he eventually settled near Brioude, Auvergne, with a fellow hermit, a former knight named Stephen; there he attracted followers and built the abbey of Casa Dei to house the burgeoning community of three hundred monks; he died in 1067
    52 min
  • Daybreak for April 16, 2026
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879; the recipient of the visions of Our Lady of Lourdes; born into a poor family in Lourdes, France; at 14, while gathering firewood, she encountered a beautiful lady in a grotto; after numerous additional apparitions, Bernadette asked the Lady her name, and she replied, "I am the Immaculate Conception"; a chapel was built at the site of the apparitions; in 1866, Bernadette took the religious habit of a postulant and joined the Sisters of Charity at their motherhouse at Nevers; but she contracted tuberculosis of the bone and died at the age of 35 while praying the rosary
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/16-26
    • Gospel: John 3:31-36
    52 min
  • Daybreak for April 15, 2026
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Hunna, "the holy washerwoman"; a noblewoman who devoted herself to the poor of Strasbourg, France, in the Seventh Century; she even washed the poor, hence her name; she died in 679
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/15/26
    • Gospel: John 3:16-21
    52 min
  • Daybreak for April 14, 2026
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Peter Gonzales, 1190-1246; born in Spain, he entered the Dominicans and became chaplain and confessor of King St. Ferdinand of Castile; he preached a campaign against the Moors, and then cared for the captured Muslims; he also cared for sailors, who dubbed him Thelmo, after St. Elmo
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/14/26
    • Gospel: John 3:7b-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for April 13, 2026
    • Monday of the Second Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Martin I; Seventh Century pope during the time of a popular heresy which held that Christ had no human will; Martin called a council in which documents supporting this heresy were censured, and the patriarch of Constantinople and two of his predecessors were condemned; the emperor ordered that Martin be brought to Constantinople, where he was submitted to various imprisonments, tortures, and hardships; he was condemned to death, but was saved by a repentant Paul, patriarch of Constantinople; Martin died shortly thereafter, in 655
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/13/26
    • Gospel: John 3:1-8
    52 min
  • Daybreak for April 26, 2026
    • Saturday in the Octave of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Stanislaus of Krakow, 1030-1079; born near Krakow, Poland; educated and ordained at Gnesen; he soon he became noted for his preaching and became a much sought after spiritual adviser; he was successful in his reforming efforts, and in 1072 was named Bishop of Krakow; he denounced the cruelties and injustices of King Boleslaus, and excommunicated him; Boleslaus himself killed Stanislaus while the Bishop was saying Mass in a chapel outside the city
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/26/26
    • Gospel: Mark 16:9-15
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for April 10, 2026
    • Friday in the Octave of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Paternus; Eleventh Century Irish/Scottish hermit; born either in Ireland or Scotland and joined a monastery; going to Westphalia, he was one of the first monks to enter the Abdinghof Monastery under the leadership of St. Meinwerk; Paternus lived as a hermit in one of the cells; such was his obedience to the vow of enclosure that when a fire erupted in 1058 and engulfed Abdinghof, he would not leave his cell, and so burned to death; he was much honored by St. Peter Damian
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/10/26
    • Gospel: John 21:1-14
    52 min

About Daybreak

From the publisher's feed

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…