Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 18, 2025
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Auxentius; soldier in the Roman army, but refused to take part in sacrifices to pagan gods, and was persecuted for the faith; after his release from military service, he was ordained a priest and became the bishop of Mopsuestia, in Cilicia; he died in 321
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/18/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 17, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Wivina, 1103-1170; she was a native of Oisy, Flanders, Belgium; she refused all offers of marriage until the age of 23, when she became a hermitess at GrandBigard, near Brussels; she gathered disciples, and accepted the offer of land from Count Godfrey of Brabant and built a convent over which she served as first abbess
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/17/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 1:1-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 16, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 931-999; married Lothair of Italy, and when he died, his successor and usurper, Berengar of Ivrea, tried to force her to marry his son; she escaped to Canossa, and sought the help of Otto of Germany; Otto conquered Italy, married Adelaide, and Pope John XII proclaimed the couple rulers of the Holy Roman Empire; she established many monasteries, and became interested in evangelism; she became regent for her grandson, Otto III, and died at the convent at Seltz, which she had founded
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/16/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:28-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 15, 2025
    • Monday of the Third Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at the age of 17 to manage her widowed father's household; she took care of the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills, and she volunteered to work in the Brescia hospital during the 1836 cholera epidemic; later, she founded a home for girls and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, her spiritual director made her Superior of a group of religious who cared for the sick, the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:23-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 13, 2025
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr, 283-304. lived a Christian life; but she rejected the advances of a Roman soldier, and was arrested, and martyred; Lucy is the patron saint of eye ailments
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 11, 2025
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Damasus I, 304-384; when Damasus was elected pope, a minority elected and consecrated another deacon, Ursinus, as pope; supporters of the antipope even managed to get Damasus accused of a grave crime—probably sexual—as late as A.D. 378; he had to clear himself before both a civil court and a Church synod; as pope, his lifestyle was simple in contrast to other ecclesiastics of Rome, and he was fierce in his denunciation of Arianism and other heresies; during his pontificate, Christianity was declared the official religion of the Roman state, and Latin became the principal liturgical language as part of the pope’s reforms
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:11-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 10, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Mennas; an Athenian from Greece, sent to Alexandria on an imperial commission by Emperor Galerius; successful, he proclaimed himself a Christian; before Hermogenes, a judge, Mennas sang a four-hour musical defense of Christianity; his eyes were gouged out and his tongue cut off; according to legend, his eyes and tongue were miraculously restored, which led to the conversion of Hermogenes; Mennas was beheaded in 312 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/10/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 9, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Juan Diego, 1474-1548; it was to Juan Diego that Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared at Tepeyac Hill in 1531; Juan Diego later lived near the shrine constructed at Tepeyac, revered as a holy, unselfish, and compassionate catechist, who taught by word and especially by example
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/09/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
    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…