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 November 24, 2024
- Solemnity of Christ the King
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/24/24
- Gospel: John 18:33-37
24 November 2024, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for November 23, 2024
- Saturday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of Blessed Miguel Agustin Pro, 1891-1927; born into a prosperous Mexican family; entered the Jesuits in 1911, but fled to Granada, Spain, because of religious persecution in Mexico; ordained in Belgium in 1925; he returned to Mexico to serve a church which was forced to go underground; arrested on trumped-up charges of trying assassinate the president of Mexico, and was sentenced to a firing squad in 1927; his final words were, "Viva Cristo Rey!"--"Long live Christ the King"
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/23/24
- Gospel: Luke 20:27-40
23 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 22, 2024
- Friday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Memorial of St. Cecila; legend has it that she was a young Christian of high rank betrothed to a Roman named Valerian; he converted, and was martyred, along with his brother; the legend tells us that in about 240 A.D., Cecilia was struck on the neck with a sword three times, and lived for three days, during which time she asked the pope to convert her house to a church; since the time of the Renaissance, she has been portrayed with either a viola or a small organ, and she is the patroness of musicians
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/22/24
- Gospel: Luke 19:45-48
22 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 21, 2024
- Thursday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Memorial of the Presentation of the Blessed Virgin Mary; a non-Biblical source tells us that Ann and Joachim presented Mary to God in the temple when she was 3, to carry out a promise made to God when Anna was still childless; the feast emphasizes that the holiness conferred on Mary from the beginning of her life on earth continued through her early childhood and beyond
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/21/24
- Gospel: Luke 19:41-44
21 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 20, 2024
- Wednesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Edmund the Martyr; elected king of the East Angles in 855, at the age of 14; in 869-870, the Danes invaded, and Edmund was captured; after extreme torture, he was beaded and died calling upon Jesus; his shrine gave birth to the town, Bury St. Edmund's
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/20/24
- Gospel: Luke 19:11-28
20 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 19, 2024
- Tuesday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Raphael Kalinowski, 1835-1907; born inside the Russian partition of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, in the city of Vilnius; he was a teacher, engineer, prisoner of war, royal tutor, and priest, who founded many monasteries around Poland after the suppression by the Russians; first male Discalced Carmelite to be beatified since St. John of the Cross
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/19/24
- Gospel: Luke 19: 1-10
19 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 18, 2024
- Monday of the 33rd Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, 1769-1852; born in Grenoble, France; wanted to serve the Indians in America; entered the Visitation of Mary convent at 19; at 49, she traveled with six nuns to St. Charles, Missouri; in her first decade, she suffered nearly every hardship that the American frontier had to offer; finally, at age 72, and in poor health, a mission was founded among the Potawatomi in Sugar Creek, Kansas, and Rose was taken along; she died at the age of 83
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/18/24
- Gospel: Luke 18:35:43
18 November 2024, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for November 17, 2024
- 33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/17/24
- Gospel: Mark 13:24-32
17 November 2024, 8:00 am
59 minutes 59 seconds

Daybreak for November 16, 2024
- Saturday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of St. Margaret of Scotland, 1045-1093; daughter of Hungarian and Anglo-Saxon royalty; they were shipwrecked on the coast of Scotland, and befriended by King Malcolm, who married Margaret; as queen, Margaret promoted arts and education, and encouraged church synods to correct religious abuses; Margaret and Malcolm had six sons and two daughters; she had certain times for prayer and reading scripture, she ate sparingly and slept little; she was always surrounded by beggars, and never refused them; Malcolm and his oldest son Edward were killed in battle; Margaret, already on her deathbed, died four days later
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/16/24
- Gospel: Luke 18:1-8
16 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 15, 2024
- Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
- Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; the eldest son of a powerful and wealthy German lord of military rank; entered the Dominicans, and proceeded to write a compendium of all knowledge--natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, astronomy, ethics, economics, politics, and metaphysics; it took him 20 years to complete, while he served as an educator at Paris and Cologne, as Dominican provincial, and even as bishop of Regensburg for a short time; St. Albert is the patron of scientists and philosophers
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/15/24
- Gospel: Luke 17:26-37
15 November 2024, 8:00 am
51 minutes 26 seconds

Daybreak for November 14, 2024
- Thursday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time
- Saint of the Day: St. Lawrence O'Toole, 1128-1180; born at Leinster; taken in a raid, and surrendered to the bishop of Glendalough; he became a monk, and was named archbishop of Dublin in 1161; he aided in negotiations with England following their raid of Ireland; attended the General Lateran Council in Rome in 1179; he was named papal legate to Ireland; while on a mission to King Henry II of England, Lawrence died at Normandy, France
- Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/14/24
- Gospel: Luke 17:20-25
14 November 2024, 8:00 am
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