by RQue Royal Design | Jul 16, 2026 | Saint of the Day
Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 16, 2026 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 38:1-6, 21-22, 7-8 1 About then, Hezekiah fell ill and was at the point of death. The prophet Isaiah son of Amoz came and said to him, ‘Yahweh says this, “Put your affairs in order, for you are going to die, you will not live.”...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 15, 2026 | Saint of the Day
According to my resources, the name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 15, 2026 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 7 The path of the Upright One is honesty; you smooth the honest way of the upright.8 Following the path of your judgements, Yahweh, we set our hopes in you, your name, your memory are all our soul desires.9 At night my soul longs...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 14, 2026 | Saint of the Day
St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Feast day-July 15) St. Bonaventure, known as “the seraphic doctor,” was born at Bagnoregio, in the Lazio region of central Italy, in 1221. He received the name of Bonaventure in consequence of an...
