Daybreak

By Relevant Radio

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 Father’... more

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August 10, 2024Daybreak for August 10, 2024
Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; a Roman deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II, assigned to care for the material goods of the church; when ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the treasures of the church, he gathered a large number of the blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed, and said, "These are the treasures of the church"; Lawrence was martyred by being roasted on a gridiron; after much suffering, he was heard to say, “It is well done. Turn me over!”

Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/24

Gospel: John 12:24-26
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1h
August 09, 2024Daybreak for August 9, 2024
Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; a brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14, Edith Stein was so captivated by reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila that she began a spiritual journey that led to her baptism in 1922; twelve years later she imitated Saint Teresa by becoming a Carmelite, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; the Nazis arrested all Dutch Jews who had become Christians; Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa, also a Catholic, died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/24

Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28
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52min
August 08, 2024Daybreak for August 8, 2024
Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; on a journey through France, he came face-to-face with the Albigensian heresy, and was commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against it; Dominic and three Cistercians began itinerant preaching, and eventually became a community, the beginning of the Order of Preachers, or Dominicans; Dominic’s ideal, and that of his Order, was to organically link a life with God, study, and prayer in all forms, with a ministry of salvation to people by the word of God

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/8/24

Gospel: Matthew 16:13-23
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52min
August 07, 2024Daybreak for August 7, 2024
Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II; elected pope in 257, and repaired the rift between the sees of Rome and Carthage that had developed over the issue of baptism and rebaptism; forbidden to hold services, Sixtus and his deacons worshipped in the cemetery chapel; in 258, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded Sixtus, along with four of his eight attendants; Lawrence was martyred four days later

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/7/24

Gospel: Matthew 15:21-28
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52min
August 06, 2024Daybreak for August 6, 2024
Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord

Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/6/24

Gospel: Mark 9:2-10
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52min
August 05, 2024Daybreak for August 5, 2024
Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica; raised at the order of Pope Liberius, rebuilt by Pope Sixtus III in 431; the largest church in the world honoring God through Mary

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/5/24

Gospel: Matthew 14:13-21
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52min
August 04, 2024Daybreak for August 4, 2024
18th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/4/24

Gospel: John 6:24-35
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1h
August 03, 2024Daybreak for August 3, 2024
Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Gamaliel; rabbinical teacher, mentor of St. Paul; mentioned in the Acts of the Apostle as advising the Jewish Sanhedrin in Jerusalem to release St. Peter and other apostles; reportedly became a Christian

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/3/24

Gospel: Matthew 14:1-12
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1h
August 01, 2024Daybreak for August 1, 2024
Thursday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Alphonsus Liguori, 1696-1787; born near Naples, graduated in law at the age of 16; entered the ecclesiastical state, and was ordained a priest in 1726; in 1732, he discerned a call from God to found the Congregation of the Most Holy Redeemer--also known as the Redemptorists--to labor for the salvation of the most abandoned souls; appointed bishop of St. Agatha in 1756, and retired to his convent in 1775, where he died

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/1/24

Gospel: Matthew 13:47-53
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52min
July 31, 2024Daybreak for July 31, 2024
Wednesday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Ignatius of Loyola, 1491-1556; he sought a mililtary career, but after an injury which required a long convalescence, he read a Life of Christ and lives of the saints, and began his conversion; in 1534, he and six others began the Society of Jesus, with the approval of Pope Paul III; Ignatius centered his spiritual life on the essential foundations of Christianity—the Trinity, Christ, the Eucharist

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/31/24

Gospel: Matthew 13:44-46
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52min

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