Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for August 19, 2024
    • Monday of the 20th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. John Eudes, 1601-1680; found the greatest need to be for seminaries; founded a new order, the Eudists, or Congregation of Jesus and Mary, dedicated to the formation of diocesan clergy; probably best known for the central theme of his writings: Jesus as the source of holiness; Mary as the model of the Christian life
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/19/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:16-22
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 16, 2024
    • Friday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Stephen of Hungary, 975-1038; born a pagan, baptized at 10; succeeded his father and adopted a policy of Christianizing the country; asked the pope to provide for the church's organization in Hungary. crowned king on Christmas day, 1001; established a system of tithes to support the church; he was easily accessible to all, especially the poor; in 1031, his son Emeric died, and the rest of his days will filled with controversy over his successor; his nephews tried to kill him; he died in 1038
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/16/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 19:3-12
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 15, 2024
    • Solemnity of the Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary into Heaven
    • Thursday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/15/24
    • Gospel: Luke 1:39-56
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 14, 2024
    • Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Maximilian Kolbe, 1894-1941; joined the Conventual Franciscans, and was ordained at 24; founded the Militia of the Immaculata, and the magazine, "Knight of the Immaculata"; in 1939, Fr. Kolbe was arrested by Nazis, but released only three months later; in 1941, Fr. Kolbe was arrested again, and sent to Auschwitz; a prisoner had escaped, and ten men were to die as punishment; Fr. Kolbe volunteered to take the place of a man with a wife and family; Fr. Kolbe was killed on the eve of the Assumption
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/14/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:15-20
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 13, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus, pope and antipope; Pontian was the first pope to abdicate; he struggled with the schismatic movement which supported the antipope Hippolytus; Pontian was arrested by Roman officials in 235; Hippolytus was reconciled to the church before his martyrdom; both died in 235
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/13/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:1-5, 10, 12-14
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 12, 2024
    • Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; married to--and then widowed from--Baron de Chantal, by whom she had six children, three of whom died in infancy; after her husband's death, Jane sank into deep dejection; she met St. Francis de Sales, who became her spiritual director; he told Jane of his plan to found an institute of women that would be a haven for those whose health, age, or other considerations barred them from entering the already established communities; the Visitation nuns began with three women when Jane was 45; when plague ravaged France, she put all her convent’s resources at the disposal of the sick
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/12/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 17:22-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for August 10, 2024
    • Feast of St. Lawrence, 225-258; a Roman deacon under Pope St. Sixtus II, assigned to care for the material goods of the church; when ordered by the prefect of Rome to turn over the treasures of the church, he gathered a large number of the blind, lame, maimed, leprous, orphaned, and widowed, and said, "These are the treasures of the church"; Lawrence was martyred by being roasted on a gridiron; after much suffering, he was heard to say, “It is well done. Turn me over!”
    • Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/24
    • Gospel: John 12:24-26
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for August 9, 2024
    • Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; a brilliant philosopher who stopped believing in God when she was 14, Edith Stein was so captivated by reading the autobiography of Teresa of Avila that she began a spiritual journey that led to her baptism in 1922; twelve years later she imitated Saint Teresa by becoming a Carmelite, taking the name Teresa Benedicta of the Cross; the Nazis arrested all Dutch Jews who had become Christians; Teresa Benedicta and her sister Rosa, also a Catholic, died in a gas chamber in Auschwitz
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/9/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:24-28
    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…