Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for October 8, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Keyne; a Fifth Century holy woman, one of the 24 children of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales; after refusing several offers of marriage, she became a hermitess on the banks of the Severn River in Somersetshire, England; she lived there for several years and traveled much, and was then persuaded by her nephew, St. Cadoc, to return to Wales; she founded numerous churches in South Wales, Cornwall, and perhaps Somerset
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/8/25
    • Gospel: Luke 11:1-4
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 7, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; originally, "Our Lady of Victory," in honor of the victory in the Battle of Lepanto, attributed to the praying of the rosary
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/7/25
    • Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 6, 2025
    • Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Blessed Marie Rose DuRocher, 1811-1849; born at St. Antoine, Quebec, Canada; she helped her brother, a parish priest, and in the process established the first Canadian parish Sodality for young women; in 1843, she was invited by Bishop Bourget to found a new congregation of women dedicated to Christian education; she founded the Sisters of the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary; in spite of many obstacles, her community flourished, and she remained unswerving in her concern for the poor; worn out by her many labors, Marie Rose DuRocher died at the age of 38
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 10:25-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 4, 2025
    • Saturday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226; a serious illness caused him to abandon his frolicking life as leader of Assisi's youth; lengthy and difficult prayer led him to a self-emptying; from the cross in the neglected field-chapel of San Damiano, Christ told him, “Francis, go out and build up my house, for it is nearly falling down”; he gave up all of his possessions, he had no intention of founding an order, but once it began he protected it and accepted all the legal structures needed to support it; his devotion and loyalty to the Church were absolute; two years before his death, received the stigmata, the painful wounds of Christ in his hands, feet, and side; Francis died in 1221
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/4/25
    • Gospel: Luke 10:17-24
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for October 3, 2025
    • Friday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adalgott; he was a monk in the Benedictine Monastery of Clairvaux, where St. Bernard trained his successors; he was appointed the abbot of the Benedictines in Dissentis, where he became known  for his care of the sick and poor; when Adalgott was named bishop of Chur, he conducted an apostolate for the suffering of the region, founding a hospital in 1150; he died in 1165
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/3/25
    • Gospel: Luke 10:13-16
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 1, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Therese of Lisieux, 1873-1897; lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent of Lisieux, France and her preference for hidden sacrifice converted souls; her autobiography, The Story of a Soul, is read and loved throughout the world; Thérèse Martin entered the convent at the age of 15 and died in 1897 at the age of 24; she came to Carmel “to save souls and pray for priests”; shortly before she died, she wrote: “I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/1/25
    • Gospel: Luke 9:57-62
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 30, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Jerome, 345-420; known for his bad temper; but he was a great scripture scholar, translating most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew; he also wrote commentaries which are a great source of scriptural inspiration for us today; he was an avid student, a thorough scholar, a prodigious letter-writer and a consultant to monk, bishop, and pope; Saint Augustine said of him, “What Jerome is ignorant of, no mortal has ever known”; he made a translation of the Bible which came to be called the Vulgate; he spent five years in the desert, and then settled in Bethlehem, where he died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/30/25
    • Gospel: Luke 9:51-56
    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…