Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for October 8, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Keyne; she lived in the Fifth Century, one of the 24 children of King Brychan of Brecknock, Wales; refused several offers of marriage, and became a hermitess; after living for several years on the banks of the Severn River in Somersetshire, England--during which she traveled widely--her nephew persuaded her to return to Wales; she founded numerous churches in in South Wales, Cornwall, and, perhaps, Somerset
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/8/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:38-42
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 7, 2024
    • Monday of the 27th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Our Lady of the Rosary; originally named, "Our Lady of Victory," in honor of the Christian defeat of the Turks at the battle of LePanto
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/7/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:25-37
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 5, 2024
    • Saturday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, 1819-1867; born in southern Bavaria; came to the United States in 1843 to serve German-speaking Catholics; during the Civil War, he appealed to President Lincoln not to draft his Redemptorist students; died of yellow fever, contracted while visiting the sick
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/5/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:17-24
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for October 4, 2024
    • Friday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Francis of Assisi, 1181-1226; a poor little man who astounded and inspired the Church by taking the gospel literally—not in a narrow fundamentalist sense, but by actually following all that Jesus said and did, joyfully, without limit, and without a sense of self-importance; he had no intention of founding an order, but once it began he protected it and accepted all the legal structures needed to support it; his devotion and loyalty to the Church were absolute; two years before his death he received the stigmata, the real and painful wounds of Christ in his hands, feet and side
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/4/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:13-16
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 3, 2024
    • Thursday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Theodora Guérin, 1798-1856; born in France; joined the Sisters of Providence in 1823; at the invitation of the bishop of Vincennes, Indiana, Sister Theodora and five sisters were sent to St. Mary-of-the-Woods, Indiana, in 1840, to teach and care for the sick poor; they persevered despite fires, crop failures, prejudice against Catholic women religious, misunderstandings, and separation from their original religious congregation; she once told her sisters, "With Jesus, what shall we have to fear?”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/3/24
    • Gospel: Luke 10:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for October 1, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, 1873-1897; lived a cloistered life of obscurity in the convent of Lisieux, France, and her preference for hidden sacrifice converted souls; in her own words, she came to the Carmel convent “to save souls and pray for priests”; shortly before her death of tuberculosis, she wrote, “I want to spend my heaven doing good on earth”
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 10/1/24
    • Gospel: Luke 9:51-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for September 30, 2024
    • Monday of the 26th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Jerome, 345-420; scripture scholar; translated most of the Old Testament from the Hebrew, and made a translation of the Bible which came to be called the Vulgate; traveled extensively in Palestine, and settled in Bethlehem, living in a cave believed to have been Christ's birthplace
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 9/30/24
    • Gospel: Luke 9:46-50
    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…