Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for July 18, 2024
    • Thursday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Camillus de Lellis, 1550-1614; born in Bocchianico, Italy; fought for the Venetians against the Turks; became a Capuchin novice, but was unable to make profession due to a diseased leg; cared for the sick, and became director of St. Giacomo Hospital in Rome; founded the Ministers of the Sick; attended the plague-stricken aboard ships in Rome's harbor and in Rome; sent members of his order to minister to wounded troops in Hungary and Croatia, the first field medical unit; died after a long illness in 1614
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/18/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 17, 2024
    • Wednesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saints of the Day: Carmelite Martyrs of Compiegne, died 1794; at the beginning of the French revolution, the Carmelite monastery in Compiegne, France, was ordered closed and the nuns disbanded; sixteen nuns were imprisoned in a Visitation convent, where they openly resumed their religious life; they were taken to Paris and sentenced to death; they went to the guillotine singing the Salve Regina
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/17/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:25-27
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 16, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Mount Carmel
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/16/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 11:20-24
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 15, 2024
    • Monday of the 15th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Bonaventure, 1221-1274; baptized John, but received the name Bonaventure when he became a Franciscan at the age of 22; St. Francis is credited with healing Bonaventure as a boy of a serious illness; Bonaventure was eventually elected to serve as General Minister of the order, at a time when it was embroiled in conflicts over the interpretation of poverty; Bonaventure structured the order through effective legislation, and offered an organized spirituality based on the vision and insights of Saint Francis; Pope Gregory X made him a cardinal and appointed him bishop of Albano; but while participating in the Second Council of Lyon, Saint Bonaventure died suddenly on July 15, 1274
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/15/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:34-11:1
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 13, 2024
    • Saturday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Henry II, 973-1024; born in Hildesheim, Bavaria; became Duke of Bavaria when his father died in 995, and emperor when his cousin Otto III died in 1002; crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Benedict VIII; also miraculously cured by St. Benedict; wanted to be a Benedictine, and lived as an oblate
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/13/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:24-33
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for July 12, 2024
    • Friday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. John the Iberian; a noble of southern Georgia, also called Iberia, and a military leader; went with his son, St. Euthymius, to Mount Olympias in Bethynia, and then to Mount Athos in Macedonia; there, he founded a monastery which endured into the 20th Century; died 1002
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/12/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:16-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 11, 2024
    • Thursday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Benedict, 480-547; born into a distinguished family in central Italy; drawn to monasticism, he became a hermit, and then withdrew to a high cave in the mountains; some monks chose him as their leader for a time, but many disagreed with his strictness; he conceived of gathering various families of monks into one “Grand Monastery” to give them the benefit of unity, fraternity, and permanent worship in one house; he then began to build Monte Cassino; the rule which gradually developed 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 7/11/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 10, 2024
    • Wednesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Veronica Giuliani, 1660-1727; native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660; she entered the Capuchins in 1677, and served as novice mistress for 34 years; received a stigmata in 1697, and had visions, the accounts of which are quite detailed; she remained practical in spite of her ecstatic experiences; became abbess in 1716, a role she served until her death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/10/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 10:1-7
    52 min
  • Daybreak for July 9, 2024
    • Tuesday of the 14th Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Augustine Zhao Rong and Companions, the Chinese martyrs; the 120 martyrs in this group died between 1648 and 1930; Augustine Zhao Rong was a Chinese soldier who accompanied Bishop John Gabriel Taurin Dufresse of the Paris Foreign Mission Society to his martyrdom in Beijing; all 120 were canonized on October 1, 2000
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 7/9/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 9:32-38
    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…