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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for February 6, 2025
    • Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Paul Miki and companions, the Japanese martyrs; in 1597, 26 martyrs of Japan were crucified on a hill, now known as the Holy Mountain, overlooking Nagasaki; among them were priests, brothers, and laymen, Franciscans, Jesuits, and members of the Secular Franciscan Order; Brother Paul Miki, a Jesuit and a native of Japan, has become the best known among the martyrs of Japan; while hanging upon a cross, Paul Miki preached to the people, forgiving his executioners; when missionaries returned to Japan in the 1860's, they found that thousands of Christians around Nagasaki had secretly preserved the faith
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/6/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 5, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Agatha, 230-251; arrested as a Christian in Sicily during the persecution of Decius; she was tortured, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated; she was preserved from being violated, but was put to death; patroness of Palermo and Catania
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/5/25
    • Gospel: Mark 6:1-6
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 4, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Andrew Corsini, 1302-1373; born in Florence, he was wild in his youth, but converted to a holy life and became a Carmelite monk; he became known in Florence as a prophet and a miracle worker; he was named bishop of Fiesole in 1349, a post which he held for twelve years; he was sent by Pope Urban V to Bologna to settle disputes between nobles and commoners; he died in Fiesole
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/4/25
    • Gospel: Mark 5:21-43
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 3, 2025
    • Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; Blaise was a good Fourth Century bishop in Armenia, but was forced to flee to the back country due to persecution; when hunters encountered him and began to carry him off to prison, he was approached by a woman whose son had a fishbone caught in his throat; at Blaise's command, the boy coughed up the bone, leading to the ongoing custom of the blessing of throats on St. Blaise Day; Blaise was eventually beheaded in in 316 A.D.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/3/25
    • Gospel: Mark 5:1-20
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 1, 2025
    • Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Brigid of Ireland, 451-525; born into slavery to Brocca--a Christian, who was a slave--and Dubthach, a Leinster chieftain; many stories of Brigid's purity followed her childhood; Dubthach took her to the king of Leinster, intending to sell her, but the king convinced him to set Brigid free, saying, "Her merit, before God, is greater than ours"; Brigid founded a monastery in Kildare, and was reputedly a good friend of St. Patrick; she died of natural causes on February 1, 525
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/1/25
    • Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for January 31, 2025
    • Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Bosco, 1815-1888; ordained in 1841, and began serving young people; after serving as chaplain in a hospice for working girls, Don Bosco opened the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales for boys; by 1856, the institution had grown to 150 boys and had added a printing press for publication of religious and catechetical pamphlets; with the encouragement of Pope Pius IX, John gathered 17 men and formed the Salesians
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/31/25
    • Gospel:  Mark 4:26-34
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 30, 2025
    • Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bathidis, 626-680; born in England, enslaved and taken to Neustria in the Frankish kingdom; she became friends with King Clovis III, married him in 649, and bore him three sons; when Clovis died in 657, Bathildis served as regent for Clotaire III; she had founded a Benedictine convent at Chelles, as well as St. Denis Monastery and Corbie; when Clotaire took the throne, Bathildis retired to Chelles, where she died
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/30/25
    • Gospel: Mark 4:21-25
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 29, 2025
    • Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Dallan Forgaill; a Sixth Century kinsman of St. Edan of Ferns, born in Connaught and a great scholar who, through his application to study, became blind.he composed a poem in honor of St. Columba, published after Columba's death, upon which Dallan's sight was restored; murdered by pirates in 598
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/29/25
    • Gospel: Mark 4:1-20
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 28, 2025
    • Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274; joined the Dominicans in 1243; studied under Albert the Great; held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, and directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo; his greatest contribution to the Church is his writings; the Summa Theologiae deals with the whole of Catholic theology; left unfinished, he said, "I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/28/25
    • Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
    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…