Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for September 18, 2025
    • Thursday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joseph of Cupertino, 1603-1663; "the flying saint"; entered the Franciscan order, and was ordained a priest; over seventy times, people say they saw him rise from the ground while offering mass or praying; at Mass he is said to have frequently floated in the air in rapture; once as Christmas carols were being sung, he soared to the high altar and knelt in the air, in ecstatic prayer; endured many severe trials and temptations in his life
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/18/25
    • Gospel: Luke 7:36-50
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 17, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Robert Bellarmine, 1542-1621; ordained in 1570, and devoted his energy to the study of church history and the early church fathers; Pope Clement VIII made him a cardinal, saying that "he had not his equal for learning"; he relaxed none of his austerities, limiting his household expenses to what was barely essential, and eating only food made available to the poor; in 1616, representing the Holy Office, he cautioned his friend Galileo not to put forward--except as a hypothesis--theories not yet fully proven
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/17/25
    • Gospel: Luke 7:31-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 16, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 24th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Cornelius and Cyprian; Cornelius was elected pope in 251; one of his great challenges was the question of whether the Church could pardon and receive back into the Church those who had apostacized in the face of martyrdom; Cornelius insisted that they be welcomed back; in 253, Cornelius was exiled, and died of the hardships of his exile; Cyprian was a close friend of Pope Cornelius, and supported him both against the anti-pope Novatian and in his views concerning the re-admittance of apostates into the Church; he was martyred in 258 during the persecutions of the emperor Valerian
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/16/25
    • Gospel: Luke 7:11-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 14, 2025
    • Feast of the Exaltation of the Holy Cross; commemorating the discovery of the True Cross in 326, its initial exaltation for public veneration in 335, and the recovery of the Cross from the Persians in 628
    • 24th Sunday in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/14/25
    • Gospel: John 3:13-17
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for September 13, 2025
    • Saturday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Chrysostom, 349-407; his name is a tribute to his preaching, meaning "golden-mouthed"; he reluctantly became bishop of Constantinople; but his zeal led him to decisive action, including deposing bishops who had bribed their way into office; he called for concrete steps to share wealth with the poor; Theophilus, the bishop of Alexandria, and the Empress Eudoxia were determined to discredit John; the empress finally had him exiled, where he died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/13/25
    • Gospel: Luke 6:43-49
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for September 11, 2025
    • Thursday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Theodora of Alexandria; a maiden of Alexandria, Egypt, who fell into a life of sin, repented, and spent her remaining days in virtual anonymity as a hermit in the Thebaid, in the southern region of Egypt, atoning through abstinence and mortifications; the fact that she was a woman was not discovered until her death in 491
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/11/25
    • Gospel: Luke 6:27-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 10, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Apollinaris Franco; born in Old Castile, Spain, educated in law at Salamanca; he entered the Franciscans, and was sent to Japan in 1614; he served as superior of the Franciscan Mission until his arrest in 1617; he was imprisoned in Omura until 1622, and then was burned alive
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/10/25
    • Gospel: Luke 6:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 9, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 23rd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Peter Claver, 1581-1654; as a Jesuit, he sailed to Cartagena , a port city in the Caribbean, where the slave trade flourished; as soon as a slave ship entered the port, Peter Claver moved into its infested hold to minister to the ill-treated and exhausted passengers; after the slaves were herded off of the ship, Peter Claver plunged in among them with medicines, food, bread, brandy, lemons, and tobacco; with the help of interpreters, he gave them basic instruction and assured them of their human dignity; he instructed and baptized an estimated 200,000 slaves; after a long illness, he died in 1854
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/9/25
    • Gospel: Luke 6:12-19
    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…