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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for March 29, 2025
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Berthold; considered by many to be the Twelfth Century founder of the Carmelite order; born in Limoges, France, ordained a priest, and joined his brother Aymeric--the Latin patriarch of Antioch--in the Crusades; on Mount Carmel, found a group of hermits, joined them, and established a rule; Aymeric appointed Berthod the first Carmelite superior general; he headed the Carmelites for 45 years, and died in 1195
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/29/25
    • Gospel: Luke 18:9-14
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 28, 2025
    • Friday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Tutilo; Ninth- and Tenth-Century monk and artist; member of the Benedictines of St. Gall, Switzerland, and noted for his abilities as a painter, sculptor, musician, poet, metalworker, and orator; taught at the abbey school, and was also noted for his adherence to obedience; died in 915 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/28/25
    • Gospel: Mark 12:28-34 
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 27, 2025
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. John of Egypt; Fourth Century hermit. a noted prophet of his era; he became a hermit at the age of twenty, and was walled up in a hermitage near Assiut, with a single window opening onto the public;from there, he preached to crowds each weekend; he predicted two military victories for Emperor Theodosius I, and they were proven accurate in 388 and 392; John died in 394
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/27/25
    • Gospel: Luke 11:14-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 26, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Basil the Younger; Tenth Century hermit with gifts of prophecy; living near Constantinople when he was imprisoned and tortured as a spy; his miracles and prophecies won him his freedom, and he returned to his hermitage with a disciple, Gregory; there, he denounced the immorality of the aristocracy, including Princess Anastasia, an activity that brought him persecution; he died in 952
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/26/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 24, 2025
    • Monday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Aldemar, 950-1080; born in Capua, Italy; he became a monk at Monte Cassino; when Princess Aloara built a new convent in Capua, Aldemar became the director of religious in the established house, where he performed many miracles; Aldemar was reassigned by his abbot to Monte Cassino, which angered the princess; so Aldemar went to Boiana, Italy, where a companion involved in the dispute tried to kill him; Aldemar fled, and established several more religious houses
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/24/25
    • Gospel: Luke 4:24-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 22, 2025
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Nicholas Owen, 1550-1606; born at Oxford, England, and became a carpenter, building hiding places for Jesuit priests in mansions; he became a Jesuit lay brother in 1580, and was arrested in 1594; he was tortured, but refused to reveal the names of his Catholic colleagues; he was released when a ransom was paid by a wealthy Catholic; Nicholas was again arrested in 1606 and imprisoned in the tower of London; he was subjected to such vicious torture that he died of it
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/22/25
    • Gospel: Luke 15:1-3, 11-32
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 21, 2025
    • Friday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Enda, 450-530; Irishman noted for his military feats who was convinced by his sister St. Fanchea to renounce his warring activities and marry; when he found his fiancee dead, he decided to become a monk and went on pilgrimage to Rome, where he was ordained; he returned to Ireland, built churches at Drogheda, and then secured from his brother-in-law King Oengus of Munster the island of Aran, where he built the monastery of Killeaney, from which ten other foundations on the island developed; with St. Finnian of Clonard, he is considered the founder of Irish monasticism
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/21/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46
    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…