Daybreak

Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for February 28, 2024
    • Wednesday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: Pope St. Hilary; born in Sardinia, pope from 461 to 468; successor to Pope St. Leo the Great; Hilary rebuilt many Roman churches and erected the chapel of St. John Lateran; validated the decisions of the General Councils of Nicaea, Ephesus, and Chalcedon; he consolidated the Church in Sandi, Africa, and Gaul; he died in Rome on February 28, 468
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/28/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 20:17-28
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 27, 2024
    • Tuesday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Anne Line, 1563-1601; English martyr; disowned by her father when she married a Catholic; Anne hid Catholic priests in a London safe house; she aided Jesuit Father John Gerard until her arrest; Anne was hanged in Tyburn on February 27, 1601
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/27/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 23:1-12
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 26, 2024
    • Monday of the Second Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Isabel of France, 1225-1270; sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God; she ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her mother, founded the Franciscan Monastery of the Humility of the Blessed Virgin Mary in Paris; she lived there, but never became a nun and refused to become abbess
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/26/24
    • Gospel: Luke 6:36-38
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 24, 2024
    • Saturday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Adela; benefactor and English princess. Adela was the youngest daughter of William the Conqueror. In 1080 she married Stephen of Blois. Throughout her life, Adela had an active role in English politics. She was famed for endowing churches and monastic institutions; she died in 1137
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/24/24
    • Gospel: Mark 5:43-48
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 23, 2024
    • Friday of the First Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Polycarp, 69-155; bishop of Smyrna, disciple of Saint John the Apostle and friend of Saint Ignatius of Antioch; only one of the many letters written by Polycarp has been preserved, the one he wrote to the Church of Philippi in Macedonia; at 86, Polycarp was led into the crowded Smyrna stadium to be burned alive. The flames did not harm him and he was finally killed by a dagger
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/23/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 22, 2024
    • Feast of the Chair of St. Peter; commemorating Christ’s choosing Peter to sit in his place as the servant-authority of the whole Church
    • Thursday of the First Week of Lent
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/22/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 16:13-19
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 21, 2024
    • Wednesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Commemoration of St. Peter Damian, 988-1072; joined the Benedictines, and became abbot; Pope Stephen IX made him cardinal-bishop of Ostia, where he battled simony, and encouraged his priests to observe celibacy and urged even the diocesan clergy to live together and maintain scheduled prayer and religious observance; upon his retirement, he continued to serve as a papal legate; on one such assignment in Ravenna, he was overcome with fever, and died with his monks gathered around him praying the Divine Office
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/21/24
    • Gospel: Luke 11:29-32
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 20, 2024
    • Tuesday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saints of the Day: Saints Jacinta (1910-1920) and Francisco (1908-1919); Jacinta, Francisco, and their cousin Lucia Dos Santos, received apparitions of Our Lady from  May 13 to October 13, 1917, near Fatima, Portugal; they were told to learn to read and write, and to pray the rosary to bring an end to the war
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/20/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 19, 2024
    • Monday of the First Week of Lent
    • Saint of the Day: St. Colman of Lindisfarne, 605-675; Irish bishop of Lindisfarne, England, a disciple of St. Columba; defended Celtic ecclesiastical practices, and led a group of Irish and English monks to the Isle of Innishboffin, near Connaught, later moving the English monks to Mayo
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/19/24
    • Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46
    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…