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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July 24, 2026Daybreak for July 24, 2026
Friday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St, Sharbel Makhlūf, 1828-1898; born in Lebanon; at 23, he joined a Maronite monastic community; after his ordination to the priesthood, he spent many years in his monastery living a very ascetical way of life; in 1875 he received permission to live as a hermit in a chapel overseen by the monastery; for 23 years, he lived there as a hermit.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/24/26

Gospel: Matthew 13:18-23
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52min
July 23, 2026Daybreak for July 23, 2026
Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Bridget of Sweden, 1303-1373; she and her husband had eight children, including the future St. Catherine of Sweden; after her husband’s death, she formed the Order of the Most Holy Savior; and experienced many visions, which she wrote down and asked clerics to translate into Latin; they were widely read; she supported the return of the papacy from Avignon to Rome

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/23/26

Gospel: Matthew 13:10-17
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52min
July 22, 2026Daybreak for July 22, 2026
Feast of St. Mary Magdalene, the "apostle to the apostles"--the first to see the risen Christ

Wednesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/22/26

Gospel: John 20:1-2, 11-18
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52min
July 21, 2026Daybreak for July 21, 2026
Tuesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, 1559-1619; a master of multiple languages; joined the Capuchins at 16; he was elected major superior of the Capuchin Franciscan province of Tuscany at the age of 31, and minister general of the Capuchins in 1602; he was appointed a papal emissary and peacemaker, a job which took him to a number of foreign countries; an effort to achieve peace in his native kingdom of Naples took him on a journey to Lisbon to visit the king of Spain; serious illness in Lisbon took his life in 1619

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/21/26

Gospel: Matthew 12:46-50
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52min
July 20, 2026Daybreak for July 20, 2026
Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Apollinaris; born in Antioch, and became a disciple of St. Peter; his successor as bishop of Ravenna, St. Peter Chrysologus, preached a sermon in his honor in the 5th century, recalling how in the Church’s infancy, St. Apollinaris showed deep faith and dedication in the face of punishment; two beautiful churches in the onetime important Byzantine city of Ravenna are dedicated to him; he died in 79 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/20/26

Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42
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52min
July 19, 2026Daybreak for July 19, 2026
16th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/19/26

Gospel: Matthew 13:24-43
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1h
July 18, 2026Daybreak for July 18, 2026
Saturday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis, 1550-1614; born in Italy, and worked for a Capuchin friary, but suffered from a leg wound and compulsive gambling; in Rome, he worked at a hospital, became a nurse, and eventually director of the hospital; at age 32, he decided to become a priest; he founded a religious order focused on caring for the sick

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/18/26

Gospel: Matthew 12:14-21
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1h
July 17, 2026Daybreak for July 17, 2026
Friday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

Saints of the Day: Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne; they were sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred; on July 12, 1794, the Carmelites were taken to Paris and five days later were sentenced to death; they went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina; the martyrdom of the nuns was immortalized by the composer Francois Poulenc in his famous opera, "Dialogues des Carmelites"

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/17/26

Gospel: Matthew 12:1-8
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52min
July 16, 2026Daybreak for July 16, 2026
Thursday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel; patroness of the Carmelite order; it was on Mount Carmel that God publicly answered the prophet Elijah’s prayer, consumed the offering, and confirmed He was a living God; centuries later, in the 12th century after Christ, a group of hermits gathered on the mountain and committed their lives to prayer and penance, forming the Carmelite Order

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/16/26

Gospel; Matthew 11:28-30
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52min
July 15, 2026Daybreak for July 15, 2026
Wednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Bonaventure, 1221-1274; entered the Franciscan Order in his early twenties, and studied in Paris, where, in 1248, he received a doctorate in theology; in 1257, he was elected Minister General of the Order' in 1273, he became Cardinal of Albano and played a prominent role at the Council of Lyons, which aimed to unite the Latin and Greek Churches; he died in 1274, was canonized in 1482 and proclaimed a doctor of the Church in 1588 by Sixtus V

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/15/26

Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27
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52min

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