Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for November 7, 2025
    • Friday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Engelbert; son of the count of Berg and became the possessor of many benefices; Engelbert was excommunicated but was restored into union with the Church; he became the archbishop of Cologne in 1217, at the age of thirty; he became tutor to the son of Emperor Frederick II; in 1222 he crowned Henry King of the Romans; Engelbert was slain by his cousin Frederick, whom he had thwarted in an attempt to steal from the nuns of Essen; Engelbert was ambushed at Gevelsberg and murdered on November 7
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/7/25
    • Gospel: Luke 16:1-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 6, 2025
    • Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Leonard of Noblac; Sixth Century Hermit-abbot, a convert of St. Remigius; he was a French courtier offered a bishopric, but became a recluse at Micy, France; he then lived at Limoges, France, and he was given land by the royal court on which he founded Noblac Abbey, later called Saint-Leonard; he died in 559 A.D.; he is a patron of Women in labor and prisoners of war
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 15:1-10
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 5, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Elizabeth; cousin to the Virgin Mary; her husband, Zechariah, desiring a child, went to pray in the temple, and his prayer was answered; Elizabeth became pregnant shortly after; Mary visited Elizabeth, and the baby leaped in Elizabeth's womb; although Elizabeth's neighbors assumed the child would be named Zechariah, her husband insisted that John be his name, as the angel Gabriel had instructed him; he was, of course, later known as John the Baptist
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/5/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:25-33
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, 1538-1584; ordained a priest at age 25, and was then consecrated archbishop of Milan; he deserves the credit for keeping the Council of Trent in session when at several points it was on the verge of breaking up; when he was finally able to spend time on his diocese, St. Charles found it in much need of reform, accomplished through a provincial council of all bishops under him; during the plague and famine of 1576, St. Charles attempted to feed 60,000 to 70,000 per day; St. Charles Borromeo died in 1584 at the age of 46
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/4/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:15-24
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for November 3, 2025
    • Monday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Martin de Porres, 1579-1639; son of a black or indiginous freed woman of Peru and a Spanish Grandee; his parents never married, and Martin bore the appearance of his mother; his father abandoned the family, and Martin grew up in poverty; he became a lay helper for the Dominicans, who eventually asked him to make full religious profession; many of his nights were spent in prayer and penitential practices; his days were filled with nursing the sick and caring for the poor; he was instrumental in founding an orphanage, took care of slaves brought from Africa, and managed the daily alms of the priory; many of his fellow religious took Martin as their spiritual director, but he continued to call himself a “poor slave”; he was a good friend of another Dominican saint of Peru, Rose of Lima
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/3/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:12-14
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 31, 2025
    • Friday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Wolfgang; born in Swabia, Germany; became a Benedictine, and was appointed head of the monastery school; in 972, he was named bishop of Regensburg; he brought the clergy of the diocese into his reforms, restored monasteries, promoted education, preached enthusiastically, and was renowned for his charity and aid to the poor; he also served as tutor to Emperor Henry II while he was still king; St. Wolfgang died near Linz, Austria, in 994 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/31/25
    • Gospel: Luke 14:1-6
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 30, 2025
    • Thursday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Serapion of Antioch; much praised by St. Jerome and Eusebius of Caesarea for his theological writings, and he was considered one of the chief theologians of his era; he became bishop of Antioch, Syria, in 190, and. was revered as a theologian; only fragments of his work have survived; among the extant writings are a letter to the Church of Rhossus forbidding the reading of the non-canonical Gospel of St. Peter and a letter against the heresy of Montanism—which held that its leaders were not just messengers of God, but “possessed” by God; St. Serapion died in 211
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/30/25
    • Gospel: Luke 13:31-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 29, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 30th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Abraham of Rostov; born in Galicia, Russia, and practiced the local pagan religion; when struck with a serious illness, he called on Christ, and was miraculously cured; he became a Christian, was baptized, and became a monk; he went to the city of Rostov, where he began his ministry among the pagan peoples; he built two parish churches as well as a monastery, and many institutions for the poor and suffering; he died in the 11th Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/29/25
    • Gospel: Luke 13:22-30
    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…