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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for January 27, 2026
    • Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Angela Merici, 1474-1540; born in Italy, orphaned in her teens; as a young woman, she joined the Third Order of St. Francis; at age 60, Angela and 12 other women began the Company of St. Ursula; this was a new way of life--single women consecrated to Christ and living in the world rather than in a monastery, what is today known as a "Secular Institute"; Angela died in Brescia, Italy; in the early 1600s, Companies that had expanded into France were re-organized into the religious Order of St. Ursula, to teach girls
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/27/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 26, 2026
    • Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Timothy and Titus; great men of the First Century, companions and disciples of St. Paul; Timothy accompanied St. Paul on his second missionary journey and was entrusted to aid the Thessalonians, Corinthians and Ephesians; Titus is addressed as St. Paul’s ‘true child after a common faith’ and was called to missionary work in Crete
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/26/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:22-30
    51 min
  • Daybreak for January 24, 2026
    • Saturday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Francis de Sales, 1567-1622; born in Savoy, France, and as bishop devoted his work to implementing the decrees of the Council of Trent; also co-founded the Visitandines, with St. Jane Francis de Chantal; among his most read and revered writings are Introduction to the Devout Life and the Treatise on the Love of God
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/24/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:20-21
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for January 23, 2026
    • Friday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Marianne Cope, 1838-1918; born in Germany, emigrated to Utica, New York, and joined the the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York; she was twice elected provincial; in 1835, along with six other sisters, she went to Hawaii to take charge of the receiving station outside of Honolulu for people suspected of having leprosy; in 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there; she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys; her sisters have attracted vocations among the Hawaiian people and still work on Molokai
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/23/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:13-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 22, 2026
    • Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time

    • Day of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children

    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/22/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:7-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 21, 2026
    • Wednesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Agnes, virgin and martyr, 291-304; venerated since the Fourth Century in Rome; various early legends make it difficult to discern details of her martyrdom, but she was young and heroic; after her death, Constantine's daughter erected a basilica over her grave; she is mentioned in the Roman Canon of the mass, and early Church Fathers praised her virtue
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/21/26
    • Gospel: Mark 3:1-6
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 20, 2026
    • Tuesday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Fabian, 200-250; a Roman layman who came to the city as a new pope was about to be elected; a dove landed on his head, it was taken as a sign, and Fabian was elected unanimously; he led the Church for 14 years and died a martyr’s death during the persecution of Decius
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/20/26
    • Gospel: Mark 2:23-28
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 19, 2026
    • Monday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Henry of Uppsala, 1100-1156; an Englishman who accompanied Cardinal Nicholas Breakspear to Sweden and Norway in 1151; there he was made the bishop of Uppsala, Sweden; he accompanied King St. Eric of Sweden on a military campaign to Finland, never leaving that land again; Henry was murdered in Finland in 1156 by an excommunicate named Lalli
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/19/26
    • Gospel: Mark 2:18-22
    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…