Author: Paul Sadek

Daybreak for November 16, 2025

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33rd Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/16/25 Gospel: Luke 21:5-19 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/6eb12089-b33a-4dcb-b3ba-b397003bdd05/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/6eb12089-b33a-4dcb-b3ba-b397003bdd05/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 15, 2025

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Saturday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Albert the Great, 1206-1280; German Dominican who decisively influenced the Church’s stance toward Aristotelian philosophy brought to Europe by the spread of Islam; master of St. Thomas Aquinas; over 20 years, he wrote a compendium of all knowledge– natural science, logic, rhetoric, mathematics, […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/3092e275-d49c-480e-a82d-b3960046a4f6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 14, 2025

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Friday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Lawrence O’Toole, 1128-1180; born at Leinster; he was taken hostage in a raid, and was surrendered to the bishop of Glendalough; he became a monk, and was named Archbishop of Dublin in 1161; he helped negotiate with the English following their invasion […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/fd468040-d070-4372-ab2f-b395005f1d7b/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 13, 2025

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Thursday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini, 1850-1917; made her vows and took the religious habit at the House of Providence Orphanage in Cadogno, Italy; when the orphanage was shut down, she and six nuns went to New York City to serve the Italian immigrants; in 35 years, […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/0f6eb085-68a0-449a-ad33-b3940040d55b/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 12, 2025

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Wednesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Josaphat, 1580-1623; born in what is now Ukraine, he became a Basilian monk, then a priest, and soon was well known as a preacher and an ascetic; he became bishop of Vitebsk and archbishop of Polotsk; most monks, fearing interference in liturgy and customs, […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/b4c41332-2437-4f66-8cff-b3930055a6e3/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 11, 2025

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Tuesday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Martin of Tours, 316-397; after discharge from the army, he went to be a disciple of Hilary of Poitiers; Martin became a monk, first living in Milan, and then on an island; he returned to France and established what may have been the first […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/7903da40-d7bb-4f1e-8303-b392001ec6ed/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 10, 2025

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Monday of the 32nd Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of Pope St. Leo the Great; elected pope in 440; known as one of the best administrative popes of the ancient Church; it is said of Leo the Great that his true significance rests in his doctrinal insistence on the mysteries of Christ and the Church […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/256c3482-0689-4615-a723-b390001d18cd/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 9, 2025

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Feast of the Dedication of the Basilica of St. John Lateran in Rom 32nd Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 11/9/25 Gospel: John 2:13-22 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/58b861ee-ca03-4e68-9a55-b38f001a2722/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/58b861ee-ca03-4e68-9a55-b38f001a2722/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 7, 2025

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Friday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Engelbert; son of the count of Berg and became the possessor of many benefices; Engelbert was excommunicated but was restored into union with the Church; he became thearchbishopofCologne in 1217, at the age of thirty; he became tutor to the son of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/333143f1-0b3c-469f-b56a-b38e0042942e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 6, 2025

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Thursday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Leonard of Noblac; Sixth Century Hermit-abbot, a convert of St. Remigius; he was a French courtier offered a bishopric, but became a recluse at Micy, France; he then lived at Limoges, France, and he was given land by the royal court on […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8dfaa3b7-28d0-42f8-864a-b38d00654d68/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 5, 2025

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Wednesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Elizabeth; cousin to the Virgin Mary; her husband, Zechariah, desiring a child, went to pray in the temple, and his prayer was answered; Elizabeth became pregnant shortly after; Mary visited Elizabeth, and the baby leaped in Elizabeth’s womb; although Elizabeth’s neighbors assumed […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/af9bace2-77f3-4a6e-9c3d-b38c0054b779/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for November 4, 2025

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Tuesday of the 31st Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Charles Borromeo, 1538-1584; ordained a priest at age 25, and was then consecrated archbishop of Milan; he deserves the credit for keeping the Council of Trent in session when at several points it was on the verge of breaking up; when he was finally […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/b51f84fe-7364-4c23-a086-b38b00723636/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more