Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 29, 2024
    • Thursday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/29/24
    • Gospel: Mark 6:17-29
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 28, 2024
    • Wednesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Augustine of Hippo, 354-430; sinner-turned-saint; spent years dabbling in heresy and sin, while his mother prayed and fasted for him; through grace, instruction from St. Ambrose, and God speaking to him through scripture, Augustine became one of the great saints of the early church; he turned, with a holy fierceness, against the decadent times in which he lived; he was both feared and loved
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/28/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:27-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 27, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Monica, 330-387; she became distressed when she learned that her son, Augustine, had accepted the Manichean heresy ("all flesh is evil") and that he was living an immoral life; she prayed and fasted for him; Augustine came under the influence of St. Ambrose, the bishop of Milan; at Easter 387, St. Ambrose baptized Augustine and several of his friends; Monica knew that her life would end soon; she became ill and suffered for nine days before her death; almost all that we know of St. Monica comes from St. Augustine's writings, mostly from his "Confessions"
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/27/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:23-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 26, 2024
    • Monday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Jeanne-Elisabeth Bichier des Ages, 1773-1838; foundress of the Congregation of the Daughters of the Cross, a disciple of St. Andrew Fournet; Jeanne was of noble birth, but she committed herself to the service of oth­ers; her congregation was designed for teaching and hospital service; she died at Le Pay, Poitiers, France, and was canonized in 1947
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/26/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:13-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 23, 2024
    • Friday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Rose of Lima, 1586-1617; born to parents of Spanish descent in Lima, Peru; took St. Catherine of Siena as a model; when her parents fell into financial trouble, Rose worked in the garden all day and sewed at night; her parents tried to force her to marry, and forbade her to enter a convent; she continued her life of penance and solitude at home as a member of the Third Order of Saint Dominic; during the last few years of her life, Rose set up a room in the house where she cared for homeless children, the elderly, and the sick; when she died, the city turned out for her funeral
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/23/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 22:34-40
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 21, 2024
    • Wednesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of Pope St. Pius X; 1835-1914; became pope at the age of 68; encouraged Italian Catholics to become more politically involved; stood up to France's renunciation of its agreement with the Holy See; denounced the ill treatment of indigenous peoples on the plantations of Peru; sent a relief commission to Messina after an earthquake, and sheltered refugees at his own expense; died shortly after the beginning of World War I
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/21/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 20:1-16
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 20, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Bernard of Clairvaux, 1090-1153; joined the Citeaux abbey at the age of 20; the valley was renamed "Clairvaux," valley of light; Bernard was frequently lured away from the monastery to settle long-standing disputes; he intervened in a full-blown schism and settled it in favor of the Roman pontiff against the antipope; he was called to preach the Second Crusade across Europe; however, the ideals of the men were not those of Abbot Bernard, and the project ended as a complete military and moral disaster; this may have hastened Bernard's death, which came in 1153
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/20/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:23-30
    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…