Daybreak

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Daybreak episodes

  • Daybreak for February 7, 2024
    • Wednesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Luke the Younger; Tenth Century hermit and wonder-worker whose solitary hermitage in Thessaly, Greece, became known as the Soterion, "the place of healing"; became a hermit on Mount Joannitsa. near Corinth; revered for his holiness and miracles
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/7/24
    • Gospel: Mark 7:14-23
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 6, 2024
    • Tuesday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Paul Miki and companions, the Japanese martyrs; in 1597, 26 martyrs of Japan were crucified on a hill overlooking Nagasaki; included was Brother Paul Miki, a Jesuit and native of Japan; from his cross, he forgave his persecutors; when missionaries returned to Japan in the 1860's, they found that thousands of Christians lived around Nagasaki and that they had secretly preserved the faith
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/6/24
    • Gospel: Mark 7:1-13
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 5, 2024
    • Monday of the Fifth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. Agatha, 230-251; arrested as a Christian in the persecution of Decius, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated; she was preserved from being violated, and was later put to death
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/5/24
    • Gospel: Mark 6:53-56
    52 min
  • Daybreak for February 3, 2024
    • Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Optional Memorial of St. Blaise; Fourth Century bishop of Sebastea, in Armenia; persecution raged in Armenia, and Blaise was forced to flee to the back country, where he lived as a hermit, and made friends with the wild animals; a group of hunters stumbled upon his cave, and found him kneeling in prayer surrounded by patiently waiting wolves, lions and bears; as they hauled him off to prison, a mother came with her young son who had a fish bone lodged in his throat. At Blaise’s command the child was able to cough up the bone--thus, the blessing of throats on this day; Blaise was eventually beheaded
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/3/24
    • Gospel: Mark 6:30-34
    1 hr
  • Daybreak for February 1, 2024
    • Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Brigid of Ireland, 451-525; Brigid and her mother were slaves on a farm, but Brigid would give milk, eggs, and butter to the poor; eventually, they were given their freedom; Brigid founded the first convent in Ireland, as well as the first double monastery for monks and nuns, and a school of art; she is the patron of scholars, and of Ireland
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/1/24
    • Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 31, 2024
    • Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Memorial of St. John Bosco, 1815-1888; ordained in 1841; served as a chaplain in a hospice for working girls, and then opened the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales for boys; in 1854, he and his followers informally banded together, inspired by Saint Francis de Sales; in 1859 he and 17 men founded the Salesians; he later organized a group of Salesian sisters to assist girls
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/31/24
    • Gospel: Mark 6:1-6
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 30, 2024
    • Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Bathildis, 626-680; born in England, where she was enslaved and taken to the Frankish kingdom; she became a trusted member of King Clovis Il's court and married him in 649; when Clovis died in 657, Bathildis served as regent for their son, Clotaire III; she had founded a Benedictine convent at Chelles, as well as St. Denis Monastery and Corbie; when Clotaire III assumed the throne, Bathildis retired to Chelles, where she died 
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/30/24
    • Gospel: Mark 5:21-43
    52 min
  • Daybreak for January 29, 2024
    • Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
    • Saint of the Day: St. Dallan; Sixth Century kinsman of St. Edan of Ferns; born in Connaught and a great scholar who, through his application to study, became blind; wrote a poem honoring St. Columba, and when it was published after Columba's death, Dallan regained his sight; Dallan was murdered by pirates at Triscoel in 598 A.D.; his head was thrown into the sea, but was miraculously recovered and reunited with his body
    • Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/29/24
    • Gospel: Mark 5:1-20
    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…