Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 8, 2025
    • Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against the Albigensian heresy; he continued itinerant preaching for ten years; his followers formed a community, and Dominic founded a religious house at Toulouse, the beginning of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/8/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28
    50 min
  • Daybreak for August 7, 2025
    • Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II and companions; elected to the papacy in 257; forbidden by the Romans to hold services, he and his deacons continued to worship in the chapel in the cemetary; one day in 258, as the pope preached, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded Sixtus; four of his eight attendants were also beheaded; the authorities executed another three later that day; St. Lawrence was martyred four days later.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/7/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:13-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 5, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome; first raised by Pope Liberius in the mid-4th Century, completed in 1743; it has survived many restorations without losing its character as an early Roman basilica; the feast day is also known as "Our Lady of the Snows"--a wealthy couple pledged their fortune to the Mother of God, and as an affirmation, she produced a miraculous summer snowfall and told them to build a church on the site
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/5/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 14:22-36
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 4, 2025
    • Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, 1786-1859; ordained a priest because of his goodness, even though he had difficulty with his studies, especially Latin; became the Curé of Ars in 1818, and spent most of his mission in the confessional; toward the end of his life, he spent sixteen to eighteen hours per day administering the Sacrament of Penance; gifted with discernment of spirits, and read souls with ease; suffered diabolical attacks for thirty years; died at Ars
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/4/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 2, 2025
    • Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, 300-371; refused to consent to the Arian condemnation of St. Athanasius; the emperor exiled him to Palestine, and then to Asia Minor and Egypt; a new emperor allowed him to return to Vercelli, where he was the bishop; died peacefully in his own diocese at what was then considered to be an advanced age
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/2/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 1, 2025
    • Friday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787; founded the Redemptorists in 1732, dedicated to the imitation of Christ, and working mainly in popular missions for peasants in rural areas; he became a bishop at 66, and immediately began a reform of his diocese; at 71, he was afflicted with rheumatic pains; he suffered a final 18 months of “dark night” scruples, fears, temptations against every article of faith and every virtue, interspersed with intervals of light and relief, when ecstasies were frequent; best known for his work in moral theology, but also wrote well of spiritual and dogmatic theology
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/1/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:54-58
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 31, 2025
    • Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1491-1556; severely injured his leg in a war injury, and while convalescing read a life of Christ and lives of the saints, and was deeply touched; he began a conversion, during which he began writing the material which later became "The Spiritual Exercises"; in 1534 Ignatius and six others vowed to live in poverty and chastity and go to the Holy Land, if possible, or to submit themselves to the apostolic service of the pope; the Society of Jesus was approved by Pope Paul III, and Ignatius became its first general; his spirituality is expressed in the Jesuit motto, "for the greater glory of God"
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/31/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:47-53
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 30, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Peter Chrysologus, 380-450; born in Imola, Italy; baptized, educated, and ordained a deacon by Cornelius, bishop of Imola; called "Chrysologus," or "golden worded," because of his eloquence in speaking; became bishop of Ravenna in 433; got rid of the last vestiges of paganism among his flock; counseled the heretic Eutyches, to avoid division and to learn from other heretics who were crushed when they hurled themselves against the rock of Peter; died at Imola
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/30/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46
    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…