Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for September 6, 2025
    • Saturday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saints of the Day: Saints Felix and Augebert; Englishmen who were captured and sold into slavery in France; they were ransomed by Pope Gregory I the Great; Felix became a priest, Augebert a deacon; while preparing to return to England as mis­sionaries, they were slain by pagans in Champagne, France, in the 7th Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 6:1-5
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for September 5, 2025
    • Friday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Teresa of Calcutta, 1910-1997; while serving as a Sister of Loretto, she received a "call within a call" to serve the poorest of the poor; she established the Missionaries of Charity; in 1948, she went to the slums for the first time; by the early 1960's, she was sending her sisters to other parts of India; the world took note of Mother Teresa, and she received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1979; by 1997, her sisters numbered nearly 4,000; after meeting Pope John Paul II for the last time, she returned to Calcutta and spent her final weeks receiving visitors and instructing her Sisters
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/5/25
    • Gospel: Luke 5:33-39
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 4, 2025
    • Thursday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Rosalia; daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, and a descendant of the great Charlemagne; lived much of her life alone in a cave; she practiced great mortifications and lived in constant communion with God; she died alone in 1160; her body was discovered several centuries later, in 1625, during the pontificate of Pope Urban VIII
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/4/25
    • Gospel: Luke 5:1-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 3, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Gregory the Great, 540-604; prefect of Rome before age 30, elected pope at age 50; he removed unworthy priests from office, forbade taking money for many services, emptied the papal treasury to ransom prisoners of the Lombards and to care for persecuted Jews and the victims of plague and famine; he reformed the liturgy and strengthened respect for doctrine; one of the key doctors of the western Church, along with Augustine, Ambrose, and Jerome
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/3/25
    • Gospel: Luke 4:38-44
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 2, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Brocard; French by birth, he went to Mount Carmel; he was elected prior, and asked Albert, the patriarch of Jerusalem, to draw up a rule for the monks; this rule became the foundation of the Carmelite order; Brocard ruled for 35 years, and died in 1231
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/2/25
    • Gospel: Luke 4:31-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 1, 2025
    • Monday of the 22nd Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Simeon the Stylite, 390-459; he entered a monastery and became a hermit; in 423 he imposed on himself the unusual mortification of living atop a pillar only a few feet in diameter and about ten feet high; one bishop even brought him Holy Communion; Simeon devoted himself to prayer, but also gave exhortations twice daily; he urged his listeners to pray for the salvation of souls
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/1/25
    • Gospel: Luke 4:16-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 30, 2025
    • Saturday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Narcisa De Jesus Martillo Moran, 1832-1869; born in Ecuador, orphaned at an early age, she worked as a seamstress; she resolved to consecrate her virginity to Christ and to spend the rest of her life offering prayers and penances to God in expiation for mankind’s sins; she spent eight hours per day in prayer, four hours per night in mortifications, ate a very austere diet, and lived in humble living quarters; she was frequently seen in a state of ecstasy; she died at the age of 37 in Lima, Peru
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/30/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 25:14-30
    1 hr

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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…