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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March 15, 2025Daybreak for March 15, 2025
Saturday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Louise de Marillac, 1591-1660; following the death of her husband, she met St. Vincent de Paul, and worked with him for the rest of her life, directing his Ladies of Charity in their work of caring for the sick, the poor, and the neglected; in 1633, she set up a training center for candidates seeking to help in her work--the beginning of the Sisters (or Daughters) of Charity of St. Vincent de Paul (though it was not formally approved until 1655); Louise traveled all over France establishing her Sisters in hospitals, orphanages, and other institutions; by the time of her death, the Congregation had more than forty houses in France; since then they have spread all over the world

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/15/25

Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48
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March 14, 2025Daybreak for March 14, 2025
Friday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Matilda; Tenth Century daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark; married Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto of Saxony, in the year 909; he succeeded his father as Duke in the year 912 and in 919 succeeded King Conrad I to the German throne; she was noted for her piety and charitable works; she was widowed in 936; she was severely criticized by her sons Otto and Henry for what they considered her extravagant charities, so she resigned her inheritance to them, and retired to her country home; in 955, she built three convents and a monastery; she was left in charge of the kingdom when Otto went to Rome in 962 to be crowned Emperor (often regarded as the beginning of the Holy Roman Empire); she spent most of the declining years at the convent at Nordhausen she had built; she died at the monastery at Quedlinburg on March 14, 968

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/14/25

Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
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52min
March 13, 2025Daybreak for March 13, 2025
Thursday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Heldrad; Ninth Century Benedictine abbot who devised ways of rescuing travelers in the Alps; a noble from Provence, France, he set out on a pilgrimage to Rome, entered the abbey of Novalese in the Italian Alps, became abbot, and ruled for thirty years; he built a hospice and added to the abbey's library; Heldrad died in 842 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/13/25

Gospel: Matthew7:7-12
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52min
March 12, 2025Daybreak for March 12, 2025
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; Third- and early Fourth-Century chamberlain to emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia; arrested for being a Christian at the beginning of the last great persecution by the Roman Empire; Peter was tortured and roasted to death over a fire in 303 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/12/25

Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
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52min
March 11, 2025Daybreak for March 11, 2025
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent

Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; noted scripture scholar; wrote "Exhortation to Martyrdom" for two young virgin martyrs; he was named archbishop of Cordoba; before being consecrated, he aided Leocritia, a young Moorish woman who had converted to Christianity; they were caught and beheaded in 859 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/11/25

Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
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52min
March 09, 2025Daybreak for March 9, 2025
First Sunday of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/9/25

Gospel: Luke 4:1-13
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1h
March 08, 2025Daybreak for March 8, 2025
Saturday after Ash Wednesday

Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; wanted to be a martyr in North Africa, but returned to care for the sick poor; John became ill after ten years of service, and died under the care of a spiritual friend and admirer, Lady Ana Ossorio

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/25
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March 07, 2025Daybreak for March 7, 2025
Friday after Ash Wednesday

Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa in the Second and early Third Centuries, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians; Perpetua refused to renounce her Christian faith, and she, Felicity--a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions were sent to the public games in the amphitheater; there Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts, all in 203; Perpetua’s record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games; the diary was completed by an eyewitness

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/25

Gospel: Matthew 9:14-15
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52min
March 06, 2025Daybreak for March 6, 2025
Thursday after Ash Wednesday

Saint of the Day: St. Fridolin; Sixth century Benedictine abbot, an Irishman venerated as “the Apostle of the Upper Rhine”; settled in Poitiers, France, and rebuilt the monastery of St. Hilary, destroyed by Vandals; then, he became a hermit on the Rhine, and built the Abbey of Sackingen; he was often called "The Wanderer" because of his many evangelizing journeys in the area; Fridolin died in 540

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/25

Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
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52min
March 05, 2025Daybreak for March 5, 2025
Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/5/25

Gospel: Matthew 6: 1-6. 16-18
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52min

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The podcast currently has 1,864 episodes available.