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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July 14, 2025Daybreak for July 14, 2025
Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Kateri Tekakwitha, 1656-1680; born in Auriesville, New York; she lost her family in a smallpox epidemic that left her disfigured and half-blind; moved by the words of three Blackrobes--Jesuit missionaries--who lodged with her uncle, she developed the courage to convert at the age of 19; she was baptized on Easter Sunday; but her conversion and holy life created great opposition; one night, Kateri stole away and began a 200-mile walking journey to a Christian Indian village near Montreal; she took a vow of virginity at age 23; she practiced severe fasting for the conversion of her nation; Kateri died the afternoon before Holy Thursday in 1680

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/14/25

Gospel: Matthew 10:34-11:1
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52min
July 13, 2025Daybreak for July 13, 2025
15th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/13/25

Gospel: Luke 10:25-37
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1h
July 12, 2025Daybreak for July 12, 2025
Saturday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Veronica; she is credited with giving a cloth to Jesus so that he could wipe his face on his way to his crucifixion; she is not mentioned in the Bible, but is known to us by Catholic tradition, and by the Sixth Station of the Cross, "Veronica wipes the face of Jesus"; the image of Jesus' face was subsequently imprinted on the cloth

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/12/25

Gospel: Matthew 10:24-33
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1h
July 11, 2025Daybreak for July 11, 2025
Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Memorial of St. Benedict, 480-547; born to a prosperous family in central Italy; studied at Rome, and was drawn to monastic life; became a hermit, but eventually built what was to become one of the most famous monasteries in the world, Monte Cassino; his rule prescribed a life of liturgical prayer, study, manual labor, and living together in community under a common abbot

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/11/25

Gospel: Matthew 10:16-23
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52min
July 10, 2025Daybreak for July 10, 2025
Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Anthony Perchesky, 983-1073; born in Ukraine, and went to Mount Athos in Greece to become a hermit; returned to Ukraine and founded a monastery in Kiev, which became the "Caves of Kiev," the first Ukrainian monastery founded by Ukrainians; he founded another monastery, but died in the Caves of Kiev; he is regarded as the father of Ukrainian monasticism

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/10/25

Gospel: Matthew 10:7-15
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52min
July 09, 2025Daybreak for July 9, 2025
Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong and companions, the Chinese martyrs; 120 martyrs, beatified in groups at various times, but canonized together in 2000

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/9/25

Gospel: Matthew 10:1-7
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52min
July 08, 2025Daybreak for July 8, 2025
Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin, 1864-1900; joined the Franciscan Missionaries of Mary in 1887; she was assigned first to Paris, then to Carthage in northern Africa, where she encountered health problems, and was sent to Rome to recover; there, she answered the call of her order to be a missionary; she arrived in China in 1899, and was hospitalized for several months with typhus; her career ended during a crackdown on foreign missionaries during the Boxer Rebellion; St. Jeanne-Marie Kerguin was beheaded on July 9, 1900

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/8/25

Gospel: Matthew 9:32-38
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53min
July 07, 2025Daybreak for July 7, 2025
Monday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time

Saint of the Day: St. Palladius; originally of British or Roman descent, possibly a deacon in Rome, or, more likely, Auxerre, France; he convinced Pope Celestine I to send St. Germanus, bishop of Auxerre, to England to end the Pelagian heresy; Palladius was consecrated a bishop, and was sent to Ireland in 430; he founded at least three churches in Leinster, and then went to Scotland to preach to the Picts; he died at Fordun, near Aberdeen, in about 457 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/7/25

Gospel: Matthew 9:18-26
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52min
July 06, 2025Daybreak for July 6, 2025
14th Sunday in Ordinary Time

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/6/25

Gospel: Luke 10:1-12, 17-20
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1h
July 05, 2025Daybreak for July 5, 2025
Saturday of the 13th Week in Ordinary Time

Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria, 1502-1539; while working among the poor of his native Cremona in Italy as a medical doctor, he was attracted to the religious apostolate; he laid the foundations of three religious congregations, one for men, one for women, and an association of married couples, with the aim of reforming the decadent society of their day, beginning with the clergy, religious, and lay people; he encouraged frequent Communion, the Forty Hours devotion, and the ringing of church bells at 3:00 p.m. on Fridays; while on a mission of peace, Anthony became seriously ill and was brought home for a visit to his mother; he died at Cremona at the age of 36

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/5/25

Gospel: Matthew 9:14-17
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1h

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