Daybreak

Jan 06 2025 1428 ep. 53 mins 588
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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 Father’s teachings, writing of the saints, and more.

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Daybreak for January 6, 2025

Jan 06 2025 51 mins  
Monday after Epiphany Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Canterbury; a monk in the monastery of St. Andrew's, Rome, and was chosen by Pope St. Gregory the Great to embark with St. Augustine of Canterbury and other monks on the missionary enterprise to England in 596; became the first abbot of the monastery of Saints. Peter and Paul at Canterbury in 602; died by drowning

Daybreak for January 5, 2025

Jan 05 2025 59 mins  
Solemnity of the Epiphany of the Lord Twelfth Day of Christmas Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/5/25 Gospel: Matthew 2:1-12

Daybreak for January 4, 2025

Jan 04 2025 59 mins  
Eleventh Day of Christmas Memorial of St. Elizabeth Ann Seton, 1774-1821; raised Episcopalian, but knew the value of prayer, scripture, and a nightly examination of conscience; married William Magee Seton when she was 19, and bore him five children before he died of tuberculosis; while in Italy with her dying husband, she saw Catholicity in action through friends; she became Catho

Daybreak for January 3, 2025

Jan 03 2025 51 mins  
Tenth Day of Christmas Optional Memorial of the Most Holy Name of Jesus Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/3/25 Gospel: John 1:29-34

Daybreak for January 2, 2025

Jan 02 2025 51 mins  
Ninth Day of Christmas Memorial of Saints Basil the Great (330-379) and Gregory Nazianzen (329-390); good friends, who met at university; Basil became bishop of Caesarea in 374, and he was called upon to refute the Arian heresy, which held that Jesus was not God; when one town was falling away from the faith, Basil ordained Gregory bishop and sent him there; Basil died at age 49;

Daybreak for January 1, 2025

Jan 01 2025 51 mins  
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God Eighth Day of Christmas Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/1/25 Gospel: Luke 2:16-21

Daybreak for December 31, 2024

Dec 31 2024 51 mins  
Seventh Day of Christmas Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sylvester I; became pope in 314 A.D.; preserved the essential independence of the Church in the face of the overpowering figure of the Emperor Constantine; the bishops generally remained loyal to the Holy See, and at times expressed apologies to Sylvester for undertaking important ecclesiastical projects at the urging of Const

Daybreak for December 30, 2024

Dec 30 2024 51 mins  
Sixth Day of Christmas Saint of the Day: St. Egwin of Evesham; English noble who became bishop of Worcester, England, in 692. thought by his clergy to be too strict; went to Rome, and on his return founded Evesham Monastery, prompted by a vision of Mary; in 709, Egwin returned to Rome, and died in 717 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/30/24 Gospel: Luke 2:36-40

Daybreak for December 29, 2024

Dec 29 2024 59 mins  
Feast of the Holy Family of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph Fifth Day of Christmas Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/29/24 Gospel: Luke 2:41-52

Daybreak for December 28, 2024

Dec 28 2024 59 mins  
Feast of the Holy Innocents Fourth Day of Christmas Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for12/28/24 Gospel: Matthew 2:13-18