Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for June 9, 2025
    • Monday of the Tenth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Mary, Mother of the Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/9/25
    • Gospel: John 19:25-34
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 7, 2025
    • Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Willibald, 700-786; brother of Saints Winebald and Walburga, and related through his mother to St. Boniface; went on a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, and was captured by Saracens who thought him a spy; he was eventually released and continued on to all of the holy places and then to Constantinople; When he returned to Rome he spent ten years at Monte Cassino, serving as sacristan, dean, and porter; Pope St. Gregory III sent him to Germany to assist his cousin St. Boniface; Boniface ordained him in 741 and soon appointed him bishop of Eichstatt, in Franconia; he founded a double monastery at Heidenheim, naming Winebald abbot and his sister Walburga abbess; Willibald served as bishop for some four decades
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/25
    • Gospel: John 21:20-25
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for June 6, 2025
    • Friday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, 1080-1134; founder of the Praemonstratensians or the Norbertines; his founding of the Order was a monumental task: combatting rampant heresies—particularly regarding the Blessed Sacrament, revitalizing many of the faithful who had grown indifferent and dissolute, plus effecting peace and reconciliation among enemies; reluctantly, Norbert became archbishop of Magdeburg in central Germany, a territory half pagan and half Christian; in this position he zealously continued his work for the Church until his death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/6/25
    • Gospel: John 21:15-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 5, 2025
    • Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Memorial of St. Boniface, 675-754; an English Benedictine Monk who devoted his life to the evangelization of the German peoples; made a missionary trip in 719, and found paganism a way of life; the Holy Father directed him to reform the German Church, and he was eminently successful; during a final mission to the Frisians, Boniface and 53 companions were massacred while he was preparing converts for confirmation
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/5/25
    • Gospel: John 17:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 4, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Petroc; born in Wales, became a monk, and went to Ireland to study; immigrated to Cornwall, England, and after thirty years made a pilgrimage to Rome and Jerusalem, at which time, he is reputed to have reached the Indian Ocean, and spent some time as a hermit on an island; he returned to Cornwall, built a chapel, established a community of followers, and then became a hermit; again, he attracted followers, and he was known for his miracles; he died in 564 while visiting some of his disciples
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/4/25
    • Gospel: John 17:11b-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 3, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and companions; Charles is the patron of youth and Catholic action in most of tropical Africa; he and his companions were martyred by the Bagandan ruler, Mwanga, for refusing his immoral sexual advances; Charles was burned to death on June 3, 1886
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/3/25
    • Gospel: John 17:1-11a
    52 min
  • Daybreak for June 2, 2025
    • Monday of the Seventh Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter; Marcellinus was a priest, and Peter was an exorcist; they were beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian in 304 A.D.; Pope Damasus wrote an epitaph apparently based on the report of their executioner, and Constantine erected a basilica over the crypt in which they were buried in Rome
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/2/25
    • Gospel: John 16:29-33
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 31, 2025
    • Feast of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary to Elizabeth
    • Saturday of the Sixth Week of Easter
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/31/25
    • Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
    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…