Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for May 20, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, 1380-1444; ran the hospital in Siena at the age of 20, during the plague; at 22, he became a Franciscan, and was ordained two years later; lived in solitude and prayer for a dozen years, but his gifts called him to go out and preach; he was known for his devotion to the Holy Name of Jesus, and devised a symbol—IHS, the first three letters of the name of Jesus in Greek—in Gothic letters on a blazing sun; the devotion spread; as general of the Friars of the Strict Observance, he emphasized scholarship and further study of theology and canon law; he died while traveling
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/20/25
    • Gospel: John 14:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 19, 2025
    • Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Pudentiana; legend has her as the daughter of the Roman senator named in St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy who gave away her wealth to the poor, aided the burials of Christians, and died at the age of sixteen
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/19/25
    • Gospel: John 14:21-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 16, 2025
    • Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Saint of the Day: St. Simon Stock; brought the Carmelite order from the Holy Land to Europe, and changed it from a hermit order to one of mendicant friars; received an apparition from the Blessed Mother in 1251, in which she gave him the brown scapular
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/16/25
    • Gospel: John 14:1-6
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 15, 2025
    • Thursday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Isidore the Famer, 1070-1130; born in Madrid, Spain, and spent most of life as a laborer on a farm outside of the city; he was favored with celestial visions, and it is said that angels sometimes assisted with his field work; he the patron of the National Catholic Rural Life Conference in the United States
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer
    • Gospel: John 13:16-20
    1 hr
  • Daybreak Wednesday 051425
    • Feast of St. Matthias; after the Ascension, Matthias was chosen to replace Judas in the college of Apostles
    • Wednesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/14/25
    • Gospel: John 15:9-17
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 13, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Fatima
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/13/25
    • Gospel: John 10:22-30
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for May 12, 2025
    • Monday of the Fourth Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Pancras; born at the end of the Third Century, and brought up by an uncle; they both became Christians; Pancras, age 14, was beheaded in the persecution of Diocletian; he is highly venerated in England
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/12/25
    • Gospel: John 10:1-10
    52 min
  • Daybreak for May 10, 2025
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Easter
    • Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and was assigned to the Hawaiian Islands; in 1873, he went to the government's leper colony on Molokai, and volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people’s physical, medical, and spiritual needs; Damien contracted Hansen's disease--i.e., leprosy--himself, and died of its complications
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/25
    • Gospel: John 6:60-69
    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…