by Web_Archangels | Apr 20, 2021 | Saint of the Day
St. Anselm Archbishop of Canterbury and Confessor APRIL 21,A.D. 1109 IF the Norman conquerors stripped the English nation of its liberty, and many temporal advantages, it must be owned that by their valor they raised the reputation of its arms, and deprived their own...
by Web_Archangels | Apr 20, 2021 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Wednesday April 21, 2021 Reading 1, Acts 8:1-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7Gospel, John 6:35-40 Reading 1, Acts 8:1-8 1 Saul approved of the killing. That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone...
by Web_Archangels | Apr 19, 2021 | Saint of the Day
When St. Mamertinus was Abbot of the monastery which St. Germanus had founded at Auxerre, there came to him a young man called Marcian (also known as Marian), a fugitive from Bourges then occupied by the Visigoths. St. Mamertinus gave him the habit, and the novice...
by Web_Archangels | Apr 19, 2021 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Tuesday April 20, 2021 Reading 1, Acts 7:51-8:1Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 31:3-4, 6, 7, 8, 17, 21Gospel, John 6:30-35 Reading 1, Acts 7:51-8:1 51 ‘You stubborn people, with uncircumcised hearts and ears. You are always resisting the Holy...
by Web_Archangels | Apr 18, 2021 | Saint of the Day
Archbishop and “the First Martyr of Canterbury.” He was born in 953 and became a monk in the Deerhurst Monastery in Gloucester, England, asking after a few years to become a hermit. He received permission for this vocation and retired to a small hut near...