Daybreak

Daybreak

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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 February 6, 2025
- Thursday of the Fourth 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, now known as the Holy Mountain, overlooking Nagasaki; among them were priests, brothers, and laymen, Franciscans, Jesuits, and members of the Secular Franciscan Order; Brother Paul Miki, a Jesuit and a native of Japan, has become the best known among the martyrs of Japan; while hanging upon a cross, Paul Miki preached to the people, forgiving his executioners; when missionaries returned to Japan in the 1860's, they found that thousands of Christians around Nagasaki had secretly preserved the faith
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/6/25
- Gospel: Mark 6:7-13
6 February 2025, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for February 5, 2025
- Wednesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- Memorial of St. Agatha, 230-251; arrested as a Christian in Sicily during the persecution of Decius; she was tortured, and sent to a house of prostitution to be mistreated; she was preserved from being violated, but was put to death; patroness of Palermo and Catania
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/5/25
- Gospel: Mark 6:1-6
5 February 2025, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for February 4, 2025
- Tuesday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Andrew Corsini, 1302-1373; born in Florence, he was wild in his youth, but converted to a holy life and became a Carmelite monk; he became known in Florence as a prophet and a miracle worker; he was named bishop of Fiesole in 1349, a post which he held for twelve years; he was sent by Pope Urban V to Bologna to settle disputes between nobles and commoners; he died in Fiesole
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/4/25
- Gospel: Mark 5:21-43
4 February 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 15 seconds

Daybreak for February 3, 2025
- Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of St. Blaise, bishop and martyr; Blaise was a good Fourth Century bishop in Armenia, but was forced to flee to the back country due to persecution; when hunters encountered him and began to carry him off to prison, he was approached by a woman whose son had a fishbone caught in his throat; at Blaise's command, the boy coughed up the bone, leading to the ongoing custom of the blessing of throats on St. Blaise Day; Blaise was eventually beheaded in in 316 A.D.
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/3/25
- Gospel: Mark 5:1-20
3 February 2025, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for February 2, 2025
- Feast of the Presentation of the Lord
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/2/25
- Gospel: Luke 2:22-40
2 February 2025, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for February 1, 2025
- Saturday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Brigid of Ireland, 451-525; born into slavery to Brocca--a Christian, who was a slave--and Dubthach, a Leinster chieftain; many stories of Brigid's purity followed her childhood; Dubthach took her to the king of Leinster, intending to sell her, but the king convinced him to set Brigid free, saying, "Her merit, before God, is greater than ours"; Brigid founded a monastery in Kildare, and was reputedly a good friend of St. Patrick; she died of natural causes on February 1, 525
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 2/1/25
- Gospel: Mark 4:35-41
1 February 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for January 31, 2025
- Friday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Memorial of St. John Bosco, 1815-1888; ordained in 1841, and began serving young people; after serving as chaplain in a hospice for working girls, Don Bosco opened the Oratory of St. Francis de Sales for boys; by 1856, the institution had grown to 150 boys and had added a printing press for publication of religious and catechetical pamphlets; with the encouragement of Pope Pius IX, John gathered 17 men and formed the Salesians
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/31/25
- Gospel: Mark 4:26-34
31 January 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for January 30, 2025
- Thursday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Bathidis, 626-680; born in England, enslaved and taken to Neustria in the Frankish kingdom; she became friends with King Clovis III, married him in 649, and bore him three sons; when Clovis died in 657, Bathildis served as regent for Clotaire III; she had founded a Benedictine convent at Chelles, as well as St. Denis Monastery and Corbie; when Clotaire took the throne, Bathildis retired to Chelles, where she died
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/30/25
- Gospel: Mark 4:21-25
30 January 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for January 29, 2025
- Wednesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Dallan Forgaill; a Sixth Century kinsman of St. Edan of Ferns, born in Connaught and a great scholar who, through his application to study, became blind.he composed a poem in honor of St. Columba, published after Columba's death, upon which Dallan's sight was restored; murdered by pirates in 598
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/29/25
- Gospel: Mark 4:1-20
29 January 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for January 28, 2025
- Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Memorial of St. Thomas Aquinas, 1225-1274; joined the Dominicans in 1243; studied under Albert the Great; held two professorships at Paris, lived at the court of Pope Urban IV, and directed the Dominican schools at Rome and Viterbo; his greatest contribution to the Church is his writings; the Summa Theologiae deals with the whole of Catholic theology; left unfinished, he said, "I cannot go on…. All that I have written seems to me like so much straw compared to what I have seen and what has been revealed to me.”
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/28/25
- Gospel: Mark 3:31-35
28 January 2025, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for January 27, 2025
- Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of St. Angela de Merici, 1474-1540; born in Italy; joined the Third Order of St. Francis and embraced austerity; in a visionary experience, she felt called to found a “company” of women; at age 60, Angela and 12 other women began the Company of St. Ursula, the first model for a "secular institute"--the women lived in the world, wore no special clothing, and took no vows; Angela died in Brescia in 1540; the Company of St. Ursula was eventually re-organized into the Religious Order of St. Ursula, for the purpose of teaching girls
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/27/25
- Gospel: Mark 3:22-30
27 January 2025, 8:00 am
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