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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for November 28, 2025
    • Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. James of the Marches, 1391-1476; born in Ancona, studied law, and joined the Franciscans in 1416; he became an effective and forceful preacher; he worked as a missionary in Italy and in Germany, Bohemia, Poland, and Hungary, and in 1426 was named inquisitor against the Fraticelli by Pope St. Martin V; in 1462 he became involved with the Inquisition because of a sermon he preached at Brescia; the case was referred to Rome, and no decision was ever rendered; he died in Naples, where he spent the last three years of his life
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/28/25
    • Gospel: Luke 21:29-33
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 27, 2025
    • Thursday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time - Thanksgiving Day in the United States
    • Saint of the Day St. James Interecisus; in the Fifth Century, he was a favorite of King Yezdigerd I of Persia, and James was a Christian; but James renounced his faith when the king began a persecution of Christians; when Yezdigerd died, James repented and once again professed Chrstianity; when he refused to apostasize, he was executed by having his body cut apart in pieces--thus, his name, "Intercisus"--cut in pieces--and he was beheaded.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/27/25
    • Gospel: Luke 17:11-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 26, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Leonard of Port Maurice; born in Port Maurice, Italy, and joined the Franciscans of the Strict Observance in 1697; after ordination in 1703, he began preaching through Tuscany in Italy, and attracted huge crowds; he erected almost 600 Stations of the Cross through the lands; in 1744, Leonard was sent by Pope Benedict XIV to preach on Corsica, returning to Rome in 1751 after receiving a summons from the pope; he died at his friary in 1751
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/26/25
    • Gospel: Luke 21:12-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 25, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Catherine of Alexandria; became Christian after receiving a vision; debated 50 pagan philosophers, who became Christian, along with 200 soldiers and members of the emperor's family, and all were martyred; Catherine touched the spiked wheel on which she was to be executed, and it shattered; she was beheaded in about 310 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/25/25
    • Gospel: Luke 21:5-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 24, 2025
    • Monday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Andrew Dung-Lac and companions, the Vietnamese martyrs; Andrew Dung-Lac, a Catholic convert ordained to the priesthood, was one of 117 people martyred in Vietnam between 1820 and 1862; members of the companions group gave their lives for Christ in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and received beatification during four different occasions between 1900 and 1951; all were canonized during the papacy of Saint John Paul II
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/24/25
    • Gospel: Luke 21:1-4
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 22, 2025
    • Saturday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Cecilia; legend has it that was a young Christian of high rank betrothed to a Roman named Valerian; through her influence, Valerian converted, and was subsequently martyred, along with his brother; Cecilia is reputed to have been struck three times on the neck with a sword, but lived for three days, and asked the pope to convert her home into a church; she died in about 230 A.D.; since the time of the Renaissance she has usually been portrayed with a viola or a small organ; she is the patroness of musicians
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/22/25
    • Gospel: Luke 20:27-40
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 21, 2025
    • Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a feast of the Universal Church since the 16th Century; this celebration continues the impact of the feasts of the Immaculate Conception and of the birth of Mary
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/21/25
    • Gospel: Luke 19:45-48
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 20, 2025
    • Thursday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Edmund Rich, 1175-1240; he studied at Oxford and Paris, and taught art and mathematics, and was ordained; he taught theology for eight years, and became canon and treasurer of the Salisbury Cathedral; he preached a Crusade for Pope Gregoy IX, and was made Archbishop of Canterbury; he resigned his see in 1240, and went to France, where he became a Cistercian; he died at Soissons
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/20/25
    • Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 19, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Raphael Kalinowski, 1835-1907; Polish Discalced Carmelite friar; he was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest, who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/19/25
    • Gospel: Luke 19:11-28
    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…