Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for June 19, 2025
    • Thursday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Romuald, 950-1027; witnessed his father kill a relative in a duel, and fled to a monastery; the monks found him "uncomfortably holy" and eased him out; tried to preach in Hungary, but was taken ill when he arrived, and the illness returned whenever he tried to proceed; at a monastery where he stayed, he was accused of a scandalous crime by a nobleman, which the monks accepted, and excommunicated Romuald, forbidding him to celebrate mass, an unjust punishment which he served for six months; Romuald's father became a monk, and when he wavered, Romuald's encouragement helped him
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/19/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 18, 2025
    • Wednesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gregory Barbarigo, 1625-1697; from a distinguished Venetian family; he embraced a diplomatic career, and later was ordained a priest, and then bishop of Bergamo; he became a cardinal and was also given authority over the diocese of Padua; he guided his flock with wisdom and understanding, and carried out the reforms of the Council of Trent; under his leadership, seminaries at Padua and Bergamo were enlarged, and he added a library and printing press at Padua
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/18/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:1-6, 16-18
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 17, 2025
    • Tuesday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Teresa of Portugal, 1178-1250; daughter of royal parents; married her cousin, King Alfonso IX of Leon, and bore him several children, but the marriage was declared invalid due to consanguinity; she returned to Portugal and founded a monastery, accomodating 300 nuns, and she lived there; in about 1231, at the request of Alfonso's second wife and widow, Berengaria, she settled a dispute among their children over the succession of the throne of Leon; she returned to Lorvao and became a nun
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/17/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:43-48
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 16, 2025
    • Monday of the 11th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Luthgard, 1182-1246; born in Belgium, and was placed in the Benedictine convent at the age of 12; a vision of Christ compelled her to become a Benedictine; she had many mystical experiences, levitated, and had a form of the stigmata; to avoid being made abbess, she joined the Cistercians; she was known for her spiritual wisdom and miracles; she was blind during the last eleven years of her life. Luthgard is revered as a leading mystic of the Thirteenth Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/26/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:38-42
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 14, 2025
    • Saturday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Joseph the Hymnographer, 810-886; the most prolific of the Greek hymn writers; born in Sicily, he left in 830 to escape an invasion by the Arabs; he went to Thessalonica, and then to Constantinople, and left in 841 to escape the iconoclast persecution; returning to Constantinople, he founded a monastery; for his defense of the icons, he was sent into exile; Joseph is credited with the composition of about one thousand canons
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/14/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 13, 2025
    • Friday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Anthony of Padua, 1195-1231; joined the Augustinians at a young age, and then the Franciscans; he became recognized as a great man of prayer and a great Scripture and theology scholar, Anthony became the first friar to teach theology to the other friars; soon, he was called to preach to the Albigensians in France; after leading the friars in northern Italy for three years, he made Padua his headquarters;in the spring of 1231 Anthony withdrew to a friary at Camposampiero where he had a sort of treehouse built as a hermitage; he fell ill on June 13, 1231, and died at Padua
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/13/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:27-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 12, 2025
    • Thursday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Mount Athos; the first hermit to reside on the famous Mount Athos in Greece; legend has it that he was a soldier, captured by Muslims, and held until released through the intervention of St. Simeon; he went to Rome, and is believed to have received the monastic habit directly from the pope; he was graced with a vision from Our Lady, and traveled to Mount Athos, where he took up residence as a hermt, and remained for nearly half-a-century; died in the Eighth Century
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/12/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 11, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Barnabas; he was closely associated with St. Paul; he introduced Paul to Peter and the other apostles—and served as a kind of mediator between the former persecutor and the still suspicious Jewish Christians; Barnabas and Paul instructed in Antioch for a year, after which they took relief contributions to Jerusalem; later, they were sent by Antioch officials to preach to the Gentiles; but they were expelled from one town, they had to go to Jerusalem to clear up the ever-recurring controversy about circumcision; Paul and Barnabas separated over a disagreement about Barnabas' cousin, John Mark, joining them after he had once deserted them
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/11/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 10, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Tenth Week of Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Landericus; as bishop of Paris from 650 to 661, he worked zealously to improve the lot of the poor; he sold his own possessions to feed the hungry during a famine, and even sold some of the Church vessels and furniture; he erected the city's first real hospital; he welcomed the Benedictines into his diocese, and encouraged them to set up the Abbey of Denis; he died about 661 after having commissioned the monk Marculfus to compile a collection of Ecclesiastical Formulas
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/10/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:13-16
    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…