Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 8, 2025
    • Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary
    • Monday of the Second Week of Advent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/8/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2025
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas, 270-343; bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; legend tells the best-known story about Nicholas concerning his charity toward a poor man who was unable to provide dowries for his three daughters of marriageable age; rather than see them forced into prostitution, Nicholas secretly tossed a bag of gold through the poor man’s window on three separate occasions, thus enabling the daughters to be married; over the centuries, this particular legend evolved into the custom of gift-giving on the saint’s feast; in the English-speaking countries, Saint Nicholas became, by a twist of the tongue, Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2025
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. John the Wonder-Worker; Eighth Century bishop of Polybatum, in Phrygia; 

      he was a defender of sacred images in the face of the ascendancy of the Iconoclasts, which placed him in considerable danger with the Ionoclast Emperor Leo V the Armenian, but he performed so many miracles that the ruler did not dare to persecute him; he died in 750

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      Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2025
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; spent most of his life in the Monastery of Saint Sabas near Jerusalem, and all of his life under Muslim rule, indeed protected by it; famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, for his treatise, "Exposition of the Orthodox Faith," and for being one of the two greatest poets of the Eastern Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2025
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; an early member of the Society of Jesus; after his ordination he was appointed apostolic nuncio in the East; he traveled to Goa, Indonesia, India, Sri Lanka, China, and Japan establishing missionary outposts and converting hundreds of thousands; Pius X named him patron of foreign missions
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 2, 2025
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Chromatius; a native of Aquileia, Italy, and participated in the Synod of Aquileia that condemned Arianism in 381; seven years later, he became bishop of the see; Chromatius was known and revered as a scholar and was described by St. Jerome as “a most learned and most holy man”; he was also a friend of St. John Chrysostom; Chromatius died in 406 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/2/25
    • Gospel: Luke 10:21-24
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 1, 2025
    • Monday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Campion, 1540-1581; English convert who became a Jesuit, and preached up to three times per day, riding from town to town on horseback, winning many converts; in 1581 he was captured by Elizabethan authorities, and tortured on a rack before being sentenced to death; in December 1581, he was executed by drawing and quartering at Tyburn, London
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/1/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 29, 2025
    • Saturday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Radbod of Utrecht, 850-917; he was educated by his Uncle Gunther, the bishop of Cologne, Germany, and became bishop of Utrecht, Holland in 900; he distinguished himself for his aid to the poor and for his poetry; he was forced to move his see to France after an invasion by the Danes, and he died there
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/29/25
    • Gospel: Luke 21:34-36
    1 hr

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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…