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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December 21, 2023Daybreak for December 21, 2023
Thursday of the Third Week of Advent

Optional Memorial of St. Peter Canisius, 1521-1597; born in Holland; he had edited and written several volumes on Church history and theology, been a delegate to the Council of Trent, and reformed the German universities from heresy; he was called to Vienna to reform their university, and administered the diocese for a year; in 1565, the pope called on him to distribute the decrees of the Council of Trent to the European bishops

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/21/23

Gospel: Luke 1:39-45
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52min
December 20, 2023Daybreak for December 20, 2023
Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Dominic of Silos, 1000-1073; Benedictine abbot who refused to surrender some of the order's lands to the crown, so he was exiled to Castile; King Ferdinand I made him abbot of St. Sebastian Abbey at Silos, now called St. Dominic's; Dominic reformed the abbey, built the cloisters in Romanesque style, and started a scriptorium that became famous; Dominic also rescued Christian slaves from the Moors, and was noted for miracles of healing

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/20/23

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
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52min
December 19, 2023Daybreak for December 19, 2023
Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Anastasius I; a Roman by birth, elected pope in 399; he was among the first to condemn the works of Origen; he also urged the church in North Africa to continue its struggle against Donatism; died in 401 and was buried in the cemetery of Pontian

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/19/23

Gospel: Luke 1:5-25
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52min
December 18, 2023Daybreak for December 18, 2023
Monday of the Third Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Winebald; born in Wessex, England, the brother of Saints Willibald and Walburga; traveled to Rome, and at the invitation of St. Boniface, gathered together a group of English missionaries and went to Germany in 739; with his brother, he founded the monastery of Heidenheim, Germany, where he served as abbot with his sister as abbess; helped to make the monastery one of the leading ecclesiastical centers in Germany

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/18/23

Gospel: Matthew 1:18-25
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52min
December 17, 2023Daybreak for December 17, 2023
Third Sunday of Advent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/17/23

Gospel: John 1:6-8, 19-28
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December 16, 2023Daybreak for December 16, 2023
Saturday of the Second Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 932-999; entered an arranged marriage at about 15 to Lothair of Italy; when Lothair died, his successor tried to force Adelaide to marry his son; she appealed to Otto of Germany, who conquered Italy and married Adelaide; the two became rulers of the Holy Roman Empire; after Otto's death, Adelaide established many monasteries and churches; she died at the convent at Seltz, which she founded

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/16/23

Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13
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1h
December 15, 2023Daybreak for December 15, 2023
Friday of the Second Week of Advent

Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa di Rosa, 1813-1855; born in Brescia, Italy; cared for the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father's mills, volunteered at the Brescia hospital during the cholera epidemic of 1836, and founded a home for girls and a school for deaf mutes; in 1840, she became superior of a group of religious who cared for the sick, the Handmaids of Charity of Brescia

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/15/23

Gospel: Matthew 11:16-19
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52min
December 14, 2023Daybreak for December 14, 2023
Thursday of the Second Week of Advent

Memorial of St. John of the Cross, 1542-1591; Carmelite priest who, along with Teresa of Avila, vowed himself to the primitive rule; in his efforts at reform of the order, he encountered increasing opposition, misunderstanding, persecution, and imprisonment; in prison, his spirit came into the light, revealing him as a mystic-poet; John died at the age of 49

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/14/23

Gospel: Matthew 11:11-15
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52min
December 13, 2023Daybreak for December 13, 2023
Wednesday of the Second Week of Advent

Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr; lived in Syracuse, and was martyred in the persecution of Christians in the early Fourth Century; legend has it that her mother arranged for her to marry a pagan, after she had promised her life to Christ; Lucy prayed to St. Agatha, who appeared to Lucy in a dream, said that Lucy's mother would be cured of her illness, and Lucy used this to convince her mother to give the dowry money to the poor; but the rejected bridegroom betrayed Lucy's faith to the governor, and she was executed

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/23

Gospel: Matthew 11:28-30
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52min
December 12, 2023Daybreak for December 12, 2023
Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe

Tuesday of the Second Week of Advent

Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/12/23

Gospel: Luke 1:26-38
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52min

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