Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for February 27, 2026
    • Thursday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Baldomerus; Seventh Century locksmith until he entered the monastery of St. Justus; he is depicted in liturgical art as carrying blacksmith tools and pincers; he is the patron of locksmiths
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/27/25
    • Gospel: Mark 9:41-50
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 26, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Isabel of France, 1225-1270; sister of St. Louis, and daughter of King Louis VIII of France; refused offers of marriage to continue her life consecrated to God; she ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Paris; she lived there in austerity, but never became a nun and refused to become abbess; she died there in 1270
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 25, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Walburga, 710-779; born in Devonshire, England, the daughter of a West Saxon Chieftain, and sister of Saints Willebald and Winebald; she was educated at Wimborne Monastery in Dorset, where she became a nun; she was later sent to Germany to help St. Boniface in his missionary work; she became Abbess of the double monastery at Heidenheim founded by her brother Winebald; on Winebald's death, she was appointed abbess of both monasteries by her brother Willebald, who was then bishop of Eichstadt; she remained the superior of both the men and women until her death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/25/25
    • Gospel: Mark 9:30-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 24, 2025
    • Monday of the Seventh Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adela; youngest daughter of William the Conqueror; marries Stephen of Blois in 1080; she had an active role in English politics, and was famed for endowing churches and monastic institutions
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/24/25
    • Gospel: Mark 9:14-29
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 21, 2025
    • Friday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Peter Damian, 988-1072; became a professor, but left his teaching to devote full-time prayer with the Benedictines; Peter succeeded the abbot, and founded five additional hermitages; Pope Stephen IX made Peter the cardinal-bishop of Ostia; he worked to combat simony, and encouraged his priests to observe celibacy and to live together, observing scheduled times of prayer and religious observance; after retiring as cardinal-bishop, he was still called upon as a papal legate; on one such mission to Ravenna, he developed a fever, and died with his monks surrounding him, praying the Divine Office
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/21/25
    • Gospel: Mark 8:34-9:1
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 20, 2025
    • Thursday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saints of the Day: Saints Jacinta and Francisco Marto; in 1917 three Portuguese children received apparitions of Our Lady near Fatima, Portugal; Mary asked them to learn to read and write, and to pray the rosary for peace and for the end of the war; they were also to pray for sinners and for the conversion of Russia; less than two years later, Francisco died of influenza; Jacinta died of influenza in 1920, offering her suffering for the conversion of sinners, peace in the world, and for the Holy Father; their cousin, Lucia dos Santos, became a Carmelite nun, and died in 2005
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/20/25
    • Gospel: Mark 8:27-33
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 19, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Barbatus of Benevento, 610-682; born in Italy, ordained in Marcona, and sent to Benevento; in 663, the city was under siege by Emperor Constans II, and Barbatus predicted that the assault would end; when peace came, he was named bishop of Benevento; he attended the council of Constantinople in 680, and died in Benevento
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/19/25
    • Gospel: Mark 8:22-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 18, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Sixth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Colman of Lindisfarne, 605-675; Irish bishop of Lindisfarne, England; born at Connaught; defended the Celtic ecclesiastical practices, and refused to accept King Oswy's decision on the Roman rites; moved his Irish and English monks to the Isle of Innishboffin, and later moved the English monks to Mayo; praised by Blessed Alcuin and St. Bede
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/18/25
    • Gospel: Mark 8:14-21
    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…