Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for July 29, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Martha, Mary, and Lazarus; close friends of Jesus; he visited as a welcomed guest
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/29/25
    • Gospel: John 11:19-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 28, 2025
    • Monday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Alphonsa of the Immaculate Conception, 1910-1946; Franciscan religious sister; first canonized saint from India, and the first canonized saint of the Syro-Malabar Catholic Church, an eastern Catholic Church of the St. Thomas Christian Community
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/28/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:31-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 26, 2025
    • Saturday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Saints Joachim and Anne, parents of the Blessed Virgin Mary; their names from a legend which stems from a century after the Resurrection, but they represent and entire quiet series of generations who were preparing for the Messiah
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/26/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:24-30
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for July 25, 2025
    • Feast of St. James, apostle--brother of St. John
    • Friday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/25/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 20:20-28
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 24, 2025
    • Thursday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Sharbel Makhlouf, 1828-1898; at age 23, he joined the Monastery of St. Maron at Annaya, Lebanon; he professed final vows in 1853, and was ordained six years later; he lived as a hermit from 1875 until his death; he followed a strict fast and was very devoted to the Blessed Sacrament; when his superiors occasionally asked him to administer the sacraments to nearby villages, Sharbel did so gladly; Sharbel died in the late afternoon of Christmas eve, 1898
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/24/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:10-17
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 23, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Bridget of Sweden, 1303-1373; she had visions of Christ crucified from the age of 7; she lived her married life in the court of Swedish King Magnus II, and bore him eight children; after her husband's death, she lived the life of a strict penitent; in 1350, she made a pilgrimage to Rome, during which she was hounded by debts and opposition to her work to correct church abuses; a final pilgrimage to the Holy Land was marred by a shipwreck and the death of her son Charles, eventually leading to her death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/23/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 13:1-9
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 22, 2025
    • Feast of St. Mary Magdalene; one of the many who assisted Jesus and the Twelve out of their means; she was one of those who stood by the cross with Jesus' mother; and she was the first to see the Risen Christ; died about 63 A.D.
    • Tuesday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/22/25
    • Gospel: John 20:1-2, 11-18
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 21, 2025
    • Monday of the 16th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Lawrence of Brindisi, 1559-1619; entered the Capuchins at Venice at age 16; with his facility for languages, he was able to study the Bible in original texts; elected major superior of the Capuchin province in Tuscany at age 31; elected minister general of the Capuchins in 1602; as a papal emissary, he went to Lisbon to visit the king of Spain; there, serious illness took Lawrence's life
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/21/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 12:38-42
    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…