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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for March 9, 2024
    • Saturday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, 1384-1440; attracted to the religious life in her youth, but her parents had picked a nobleman for her husband; Frances and her brother-in-law's wife set out to serve the poor together; Frances requested and was given permission to found a society of women bound by no vows--they simply offered themselves to God and to the service of the poor
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/9/24
    • Gospel: Luke 18:9-14
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 8, 2024
    • Friday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; came to a true conversion at the age of 40, when he went to Africa, hoping to be martyred; he was advised that this was not spiritually sound, so he returned to Spain and a religious goods store; he was moved by a sermon of St. John of Avila, and publicly beat himself, begging mercy; he was committed to a mental hospital, where he was visited by St. John of Avila, who advised him to become involved in tending to the needs of others; John of God established a house to tend to the needs of the sick poor, and lived a deep interior life; 20 years after his death, his followers formed the Brothers Hospitallers
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/24
    • Gospel: Mark 12:28-34
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 7, 2024
    • Thursday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; lived in the Third and Fourth Centuries in Carthage, North Africa; Perpetua, 22, was a noblewoman with an infant son; she refused to deny her Christian faith; Felicity was a slavewoman and expectant mother; they and three companions were sent to the public games in the amphitheater; Perpetua and Felicity were beheaded, the others were killed by beasts in 203 A.D.; Perpetua's diary ends the day before the games, and it was finished by an eyewitness
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/7/24
    • Gospel: Luke 11:14-23
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 6, 2024
    • Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Colette, 1380-1447; orphaned at 17, she became a Franciscan tertiary, living in Corby Abbey, near Picardy, France; she left in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Claires; she founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule, and reformed several older convents; known for her sanctity, ecstasies, and visions of the Passion; prophesied her own death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/6/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:17-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 5, 2024
    • Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. John Joseph of the Cross, 1654-1739; became a Franciscan at the age of 16; three years after his profession, he was sent to found a monastery in Piedmont; he built another convent, and became master of novices, and later, provincial of the province of Naples; he suffered much, and was the victim of numerous calumnies, but succeeded in his work of instilling in his subjects a double spirit of contemplation and penance 
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/5/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 18:21-35
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 4, 2024
    • Monday of the Third Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; even as a teenager, he lived a highly disciplined life, sleeping on the ground, spending much of the night in prayer, and dedicating himself to lifelong celibacy; nobles in Hungary asked Casimir's father, the king of Poland, to send his son to take over the country; Casimir found that his army was outnumbered, and returned home, where his father exiled him for three months; Casimir returned to prayer and study; he briefly served as king of Poland during his father's absence; he died of lung problems at the age of 25
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/4/24
    • Gospel: Luke 4:24-30
    52 min
  • Daybreak for March 2, 2024
    • Saturday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Agnes of Bohemia, 1200-1282; daughter of King Ottocar and Queen Constance of Hungary; betrothed to Emperor Frederick II of Germany, but refused the marriage and became a Poor Claire; gifted with miracles
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/2/24
    • Gospel: Lukke 5:1-3, 11-32
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for March 1, 2024
    • Friday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Aubin, 470-550; entered the monastery of Tincillac when a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529; known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in ransoming slaves, and for his holiness and the many miracles he is reputed to have performed both during his lifetime and after his death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/1/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43, 45-46
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 29, 2024
    • Thursday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Oswald; Danish by birth, St. Oswald studied in the household of his uncle, Archbishop Odo of Fleury, France, where he was ordained; in 962, he was made bishop of Worcester, where he worked to eliminate abuses, and built many monasteries; became archbishop of York in 972; associated for most of his public life with St. Dunstan and St. Ethelwold and when he died in 992 popular veneration joined his name to theirs; one of the three who helped to revive English monasticism
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/29/24
    • Gospel: Luke 16:19-31
    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…