Author: Paul Sadek

Daybreak for August 13, 2025

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Wednesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saints Pontian and Hippolytus; Pontian was Roman by birth, and was elected pope in 230, a time when a synod condemned Origen as a priest and teacher; in 235, Pontian was arrested and exiled in Sardinia; Hippolytus was the first antipope, and he was […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/c6447b2d-68ae-47d1-b7dd-b3380037198e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 12, 2025

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Tuesday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Jane Frances de Chantal, 1572-1641; widowed after seven years of marriage, St. Francis de Sales became her spiritual director; she wanted to become a nun, but St. Francis persuaded her to defer this decision; Francis told Jane of his plan to found an […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/317e0b4f-cc19-4720-a111-b3370054e3f6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 11, 2025

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Monday of the 19th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Clare of Assisi, 1194-1253; lifelong friend and spiritual student of St. Francis; at 18, she escaped from her father’s house, and was placed in a Benedictine convent by St. Francis; as her father and uncles stormed the convent, she clung to the altar of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/a07c5a71-88dc-4695-b61f-b336005c1e13/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak August 10, 2025

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19th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/10/25 Gospel: Luke 12:32-48 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/db1e86de-b14b-4214-853a-b334014c9440/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/db1e86de-b14b-4214-853a-b334014c9440/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 9, 2025

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Saturday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Teresa Benedicta of the Cross, 1891-1942; brilliant philosopher from a Jewish family, she stopped believing in God at age 14; but the autobiography of St. Teresa so captivated Edith Stein that it led her to baptism in 1922; twelve years later, she became […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/542c752e-15da-403d-ae45-b334005b17ca/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 8, 2025

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Friday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Dominic, 1170-1221; commissioned to be part of the preaching crusade against the Albigensian heresy; he continued itinerant preaching for ten years; his followers formed a community, and Dominic founded a religious house at Toulouse, the beginning of the Order of Preachers, the Dominicans Office […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/b892f6a7-0594-4649-a4a5-b333005c5ec6/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 7, 2025

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Thursday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Pope St. Sixtus II and companions; elected to the papacy in 257; forbidden by the Romans to hold services, he and hisdeaconscontinued to worship in thechapel in the cemetary; one day in 258, as the pope preached, soldiers broke into the chapel and beheaded […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/e924b593-f7e0-4b7d-84a9-b33200606f5b/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 6, 2025

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Feast of the Transfiguration of the Lord Wednesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/6/25 Gospel: Luke 9:28-36 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/6321a586-8fdb-43ea-8b9e-b331004f3367/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/6321a586-8fdb-43ea-8b9e-b331004f3367/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 5, 2025

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Tuesday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of the Dedication of St. Mary Major Basilica in Rome; first raised by Pope Liberius in the mid-4th Century, completed in 1743; it has survived many restorations without losing its character as an early Roman basilica; the feast day is also known as “Our Lady […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/f2edea20-4adb-4e71-a944-b3300046e30d/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 4, 2025

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Monday of the 18th Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. John Vianney, the Curé of Ars, 1786-1859; ordained a priest because of his goodness, even though he had difficulty with his studies, especially Latin; became the Curé of Ars in 1818, and spent most of his mission in the confessional; toward the end of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/3f70238d-b440-4b93-9c73-b32f0015f4b5/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 3, 2025

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18th Sunday in Ordinary Time Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 8/3/25 Gospel: Luke 12:13-21 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/68badd8e-8301-4b56-8e21-b32d015ec43e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/68badd8e-8301-4b56-8e21-b32d015ec43e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Daybreak for August 2, 2025

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Saturday of the 17th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Eusebius of Vercelli, 300-371; refused to consent to the Arian condemnation of St. Athanasius; the emperor exiled him to Palestine, and then to Asia Minor and Egypt; a new emperor allowed him to return to Vercelli, where he was the bishop; died peacefully […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/202550d9-61cc-4485-a605-b32d00368744/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more