Daybreak

Mar 12 2025 1491 ep. 54 mins 590
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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 March 12, 2025

Mar 12 2025 51 mins  
Wednesday of the First Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; Third- and early Fourth-Century chamberlain to emperor Diocletian in Nicomedia; arrested for being a Christian at the beginning of the last great persecution by the Roman Empire; Peter was tortured and roasted to death over a fire in 303 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/12/25 Gospel: Luke

Daybreak for March 11, 2025

Mar 11 2025 51 mins  
Tuesday of the First Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; noted scripture scholar; wrote "Exhortation to Martyrdom" for two young virgin martyrs; he was named archbishop of Cordoba; before being consecrated, he aided Leocritia, a young Moorish woman who had converted to Christianity; they were caught and beheaded in 859 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer

Daybreak for March 9, 2025

Mar 08 2025 59 mins  
First Sunday of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/9/25 Gospel: Luke 4:1-13

Daybreak for March 8, 2025

Mar 08 2025 59 mins  
Saturday after Ash Wednesday Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; wanted to be a martyr in North Africa, but returned to care for the sick poor; John became ill after ten years of service, and died under the care of a spiritual friend and admirer, Lady Ana Ossorio Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/25

Daybreak for March 7, 2025

Mar 07 2025 51 mins  
Friday after Ash Wednesday Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; Perpetua was a young, beautiful, well-educated, a noblewoman of Carthage in North Africa in the Second and early Third Centuries, mother of an infant son and chronicler of the persecution of the Christians; Perpetua refused to renounce her Christian faith, and she, Felicity--a slavewoman and expectant mother

Daybreak for March 6, 2025

Mar 06 2025 51 mins  
Thursday after Ash Wednesday Saint of the Day: St. Fridolin; Sixth century Benedictine abbot, an Irishman venerated as “the Apostle of the Upper Rhine”; settled in Poitiers, France, and rebuilt the monastery of St. Hilary, destroyed by Vandals; then, he became a hermit on the Rhine, and built the Abbey of Sackingen; he was often called "The Wanderer" because of hi

Daybreak for March 5, 2025

Mar 05 2025 51 mins  
Ash Wednesday, the beginning of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/5/25 Gospel: Matthew 6: 1-6. 16-18

Daybreak for March 4, 2025

Mar 04 2025 51 mins  
Tuesday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; lived a disciplined, holy life from his teens; when the people of Hungary asked Casimir's father, the king of Poland, to come and take over their country, Casimir obeyed--but was outnumbered; when his troops started deserting, Casimir decided to return home; his father punished him by confinin

Daybreak for March 3, 2025

Mar 03 2025 51 mins  
Monday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Katharine Drexel, 1858-1955; born in Philadelphia, and grew up in a privileged atmosphere; but when nursing her terminally ill stepmother, her life took a turn; on a trip to Europe, Pope Leo XIII invited her to become a missionary, and she returned to the United States to begin her systematic aid to Indian mission

Daybreak for March 2, 2025

Mar 02 2025 59 mins  
Eighth Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/2/25 Gospel: Luke 6:39-45