Daybreak

By Relevant Radio

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 Father’... more

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December 13, 2024Daybreak for December 13, 2024
Friday of the Second Week of Advent

Memorial of St. Lucy, 283-304; a disappointed suitor accused Lucy of being a Christian, and she was executed in Syracuse, Sicily; Lucy knew of the heroism of earlier virgin martyrs; she remained faithful to their example and to the example of the carpenter, whom she knew to be the Son of God; she is the patroness of eyesight

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/24

Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19
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52min
December 12, 2024Daybreak for December 12, 2024
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe; in 1531, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to a poor Indian in Mexico, and asked him to have the bishop of Mexico build a chapel on the site; she provided roses as a sign; when Juan Diego opened his tilma, the roses fell to the ground, and the bishop fell to his knees before an image of Our Lady imprinted on the tilma

Thursday of the Second Week of Advent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/12/24

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
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52min
December 11, 2024Daybreak for December 11, 2024
Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent

Optional Memorial of Pope St. Damasus I, 304-384; son of a Roman priest, under whom he served as a deacon; served Pope Liberius, whom he succeeded as pope; however, a minority elected an antipope; supporters of the antipope even accused Damasus of a grave crime; he had to go before a civil court and a church synod to clear himself; as pope, he fiercely denounced Arianism and other heresies

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/11/24

Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
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52min
December 11, 2024Daybreak for December 10, 2024
Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: Pope St. Gregory III; fought with Emperor Leo III, who attacked the veneration of holy images; Gregory called a synod which approved strong measures against anyone who attempted to destroy images of Jesus, Mary, or the saints; Leo sent ships to kidnap Gregory, but his ships were destroyed in a storm, and Leo was only able to capture some of the papal lands; Gregory was pope from 731 to 741 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/10/24

Gospel: Matthew 18:12-14
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52min
December 09, 2024Daybreak for December 9, 2024
Solemnity of the Immaculate Conception of the Blessed Virgin Mary (transferred from December 8)

Monday of the Second Week of Advent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/9/24

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
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52min
December 08, 2024Daybreak for December 8, 2024
Second Sunday of Advent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/8/24

Gospel: Luke 3:1-6
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1h
December 07, 2024Daybreak for December 7, 2024
Saturday of the First Week of Advent

Memorial of St. Ambrose, 337-397; Ambrose cut a furrow through the lives of his contemporaries; even royal personages suffered divine punishment for standing in his way; but another side of Ambrose was one which influenced Augustine of Hippo, whom Ambrose converted; Ambrose was a passionate little man with a high forehead, a long melancholy face, and great eyes

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/7/24

Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
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1h
December 06, 2024Daybreak for December 6, 2024
Friday of the First Week of Advent

Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra, 270-343; bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; the best-known story about him has him secretly throwing a bag of gold through the window of a poor man, three times, so that his daughters could marry; by a twist of the tongue, St. Nicholas became Santa Claus

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/24

Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
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52min
December 05, 2024Daybreak for December 5, 2024
Thursday of the First Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Gerald; French abbot; in the latter portion of the Eleventh Century, he was appointed choir director of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, as part of an ecclesiastical reform; he did his work so well that he was appointed bishop of Braga; he visited his diocese, and eradicated abuses which had cropped up; he died December 5, 1109, in Portugal

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/24

Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
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52min
December 04, 2024Daybreak for December 4, 2024
Wednesday of the First Week of Advent

Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; born in Damascus, and followed his father in a government position under the Arabs; he resigned, and went to the monastery of St. Sabas; he is famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, who opposed the veneration of images; for his treatise, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a summary of the Greek Fathers, of which he became the last; and for his poetry--he was one of the greatest poets of the Eastern Church

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/24

Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
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52min

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The podcast currently has 1,864 episodes available.