Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for December 7, 2024
    • Saturday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Ambrose, 337-397; Ambrose cut a furrow through the lives of his contemporaries; even royal personages suffered divine punishment for standing in his way; but another side of Ambrose was one which influenced Augustine of Hippo, whom Ambrose converted; Ambrose was a passionate little man with a high forehead, a long melancholy face, and great eyes
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/7/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:35-10:1, 5-8
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for December 6, 2024
    • Friday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. Nicholas of Myra, 270-343; bishop of Myra, a city in Lycia, a province of Asia Minor; the best-known story about him has him secretly throwing a bag of gold through the window of a poor man, three times, so that his daughters could marry; by a twist of the tongue, St. Nicholas became Santa Claus
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/6/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:27-31
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 5, 2024
    • Thursday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Gerald; French abbot; in the latter portion of the Eleventh Century, he was appointed choir director of the Cathedral of Toledo, Spain, as part of an ecclesiastical reform; he did his work so well that he was appointed bishop of Braga; he visited his diocese, and eradicated abuses which had cropped up; he died December 5, 1109, in Portugal
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/5/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 7:21, 24-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 4, 2024
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Damascene, 676-749; born in Damascus, and followed his father in a government position under the Arabs; he resigned, and went to the monastery of St. Sabas; he is famous for his writings against the iconoclasts, who opposed the veneration of images; for his treatise, Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, a summary of the Greek Fathers, of which he became the last; and for his poetry--he was one of the greatest poets of the Eastern Church
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/4/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 15:29-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 3, 2024
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Advent
    • Memorial of St. Francis Xavier, 1506-1552; joined the infant Society of Jesus in 1534; ordained in 1537, and went to Lisbon; from there sailed to the East Indies, landing at Goa, on the west coast of India; for the next 10 years he labored to bring the faith to such widely scattered peoples as the Hindus, the Malayans, and the Japanese; he longed to go to China, but he died before reaching the mainland
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/3/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:21-24
    52 min
  • Daybreak for December 2, 2024
    • Monday of the First Week of Advent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bibiana; the daughter of Christians, who were martyred by Apronianus, the governor of Rome; Bibiana and her sister Demetria were left to live in poverty in their home, where they prayed and fasted; Apronianus summoned them, and after confessing her faith, Demetria fell dead at his feet; Bibiana was sentenced to be scourged until her death in the Fourth Century.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/2/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 8:5-11
    52 min
  • Daybreak for November 29, 2024
    • Friday of the 34th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Radbod of Utrecht, 850-917; educated as a Christian, and became bishop of Utrecht in 900; distinguished himself for his aid to the poor and his poetry; he was forced to move his see to Deventer, France, because of an invasion by the Danes, and he died there.
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/29/24
    • Gospel: Luke 21:29-33
    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…