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  • Daybreak for March 8, 2025
    • Saturday after Ash Wednesday
    • Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; wanted to be a martyr in North Africa, but returned to care for the sick poor; John became ill after ten years of service, and died under the care of a spiritual friend and admirer, Lady Ana Ossorio
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/25
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 7, 2025
    • Friday after Ash Wednesday
    • Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa in the Second and early Third Centuries, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians; Perpetua refused to renounce her Christian faith, and she, Felicity--a slavewoman and expectant mother–and three companions were sent to the public games in the amphitheater; there Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, and the others killed by beasts, all in 203; Perpetua’s record of her trial and imprisonment ends the day before the games; the diary was completed by an eyewitness
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/25
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:14-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 6, 2025
    • Thursday after Ash Wednesday
    • Saint of the Day: St. Fridolin; Sixth century Benedictine abbot, an Irishman venerated as “the Apostle of the Upper Rhine”; settled in Poitiers, France, and rebuilt the monastery of St. Hilary, destroyed by Vandals; then, he became a hermit on the Rhine, and built the Abbey of Sackingen; he was often called "The Wanderer" because of his many evangelizing journeys in the area; Fridolin died in 540
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/25
    • Gospel: Luke 9:22-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; lived a disciplined, holy life from his teens; when the people of Hungary asked Casimir's father, the king of Poland, to come and take over their country, Casimir obeyed--but was outnumbered; when his troops started deserting, Casimir decided to return home; his father punished him by confining him for three months, while Casimir returned to study and prayer; Casimir reigned briefly as king of Poland during his father’s absence; he died of lung trouble in 1493, at the age of 25 while visiting Lithuania, of which he was also Grand Duke
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/4/25
    • Gospel: Mark 10:28-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 3, 2025
    • Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, 1858-1955; born in Philadelphia, and grew up in a privileged atmosphere; but when nursing her terminally ill stepmother, her life took a turn; on a trip to Europe, Pope Leo XIII invited her to become a missionary, and she returned to the United States to begin her systematic aid to Indian missions; Mother Drexel and her band of nuns opened a boarding school in Santa Fe; in all, she opened 50 missions for Indians in 16 states; at 72, she suffered a heart attack, and spent almost 20 years of quiet, intense prayer from a small room overlooking the sanctuary
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/3/25
    • Gospel: Mark 10:17-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak Saturday 030125
    • Saturday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Aubin, aka St. Albinus, 470-550; entered the monastery of Tincillac as a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529; known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in ransoming slaves, and for his holiness and the many miracles he is reputed to have performed both during his lifetime and after his death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/1/25
    • Gospel: Mark 10:13-16
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 28, 2025
    • Friday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Oswald, 925-992; a Dane by birth, St. Oswald studied in the household of his uncle, Archbishop Odo of Fleury, France, where he was ordained; he returned to England in 959, and was made Bishop of Worcester in 962; in 972, he became archbishop of York; for most of his public life, he was associated with St. Dunstan and St. Ethelwold, and the three have been regarded as the saints who restored English monasticism
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/28/25
    • Gospel: Mark 10:1-12
    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…