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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April 20, 2024Daybreak Saturday for April 20, 2024
Saturday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Agnes of Montepulciano, 1268-1317; entered the monastery of Montepulciano at the age of nine; four years later, Pope Nicholas IV asked her to assist in the foundation of a new convent at Procena; at 15, she became head of the nuns there; the people of Montepulciano built a new convent to try to lure Agnes back to them; she governed there until her death; she was noted for her visions

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/20/24

Gospel: John 6:60-69
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April 19, 2024Daybreak for April 19, 2024
Friday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Alphege of Canterbury, 954-1012; became abbot of the Bath monastery, and was then consecrated bishop of Winchester, and eventually elevated to the see of Canterbury; during a Danish invasion of Canterbury, Alphege offered himself, and was consigned to a dungeon; an epidemic frightened the Danes into releasing him; Alphege healed many victims of the epidemic, but the Danes still stoned and axed him to death in Greenwich

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/19/24

Gospel: John 6:52-59
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52min
April 18, 2024Daybreak for April 18, 2024
Thursday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Appolonius the Apologist; Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves; the Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him, also putting the slave to death as an informer; Perennis and Appolonius debated, and despite Appolonius' eloquent defense, he was condemned and beheaded in 185 A.D.

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/18/24

Gospel: John 6:44-51
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52min
April 17, 2024Daybreak for April 17, 2024
Wednesday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Stephen Harding; joined St. Robert of Molesme at the abbey in Burgundy; when Robert left because of corruption and laxity, Stephen went with him, along with St. Alberic; when 21 other monks left Molesme, a new monastery was founded at Citeaux, with Robert as abbot; Robert returned to Molesme after a year, and Alberic served as abbot until his death; Stephen became the third abbot of Citeaux; Bernard of Clairvaux visited in 1112, and brought his followers with him; In 1119, Stephen wrote the Carter Caritatis, an important document for the Cistercian order; Stephen Harding died in 1134

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/17/24

Gospel: John 6:35-40
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52min
April 16, 2024Daybreak for April 16, 2024
Tuesday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Bernadette Soubirous, 1844-1879; first child of a poor miller in Lourdes, France; in 1858, the Blessed Virgin Mary appeared to Bernadette 18 times; on March 25, she told her, "I am the Immaculate Conception"; the Church confirmed the authenticity of the apparitions in 1862; Bernadette suffered much, and was protected in a convent of nuns; she eventually entered the Sisters of Notre Dame of Nevers, and within four months was given last rites; chronic health problems persisted, and she died in 1879, at the age of 35

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/16/24

Gospel: John 6:30-35
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52min
April 15, 2024Daybreak for April 15, 2024
Monday of the Third Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Hunna; she was known as "the holy washerwoman," a noblewoman who devoted herself to the poor of Strasbourg, France; she was the daughter of a duke and wife of Huno of Hunnaweyer, she even washed the poor; patroness of laundresses, laundry workers, and washerwomen

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/15/24

Gospel: John 6:22-29
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52min
April 14, 2024Daybreak for April 14, 2024
Third Sunday of Easter

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/14/24

Gospel: Luke 24:35-48
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1h
April 13, 2024Daybreak for April 13, 2024
Saturday of the Second Week of Easter

Optional Memorial of Pope St. Martin I; became pope in 649, when there was a popular heretical teaching that Christ had no human will; Martin held a council in the Lateran in which the patriarch of Constantinople and two of his predecessors who held to this heresy were condemned; the emperor sent troops to Rome to seize Martin and to bring him back to Constantinople; he was submitted to various imprisonments, tortures, and hardships; he died shortly after, in 655, the last of the early popes to be venerated as a martyr

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/13/24

Gospel: John 6:16-21
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1h
April 12, 2024Daybreak for April 12, 2024
Friday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Sabas the Goth, 334-372; Goth, converted to Christianity in his youth; became a lector to a priest. Sansala; seized with Sansala by a group of Gothic soldiers and ordered to eat meat which had been sacrificed to idols; tortured and drowned in the Mussovo River, along with 50 others

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/12/24

Gospel: John 6:1-15
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52min
April 11, 2024Daybreak for April 11, 2024
Thursday of the Second Week of Easter

Saint of the Day: St. Antipas; martyr and disciple of St. John the apostle; reputed to be the bishop of Pergamum; he is believed to have been burned to death in 90 A.D.; the only mention of him is in the book of Revelation

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 4/11/24

Gospel: John 3:31-36
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52min

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