by RQue Royal Design | Aug 26, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Saint Monica, also known as Monica of Hippo, is St. Augustine of Hippo’s mother. She was born in 331 A.D. in Tagaste, which is present-day Algeria. When she was very young, she was married off to the Roman pagan Patricius, who shared his mother’s violent...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 26, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Thessalonians 2:9-13 9 You remember, brothers, with what unsparing energy we used to work, slaving night and day so as not to be a burden on any one of you while we were proclaiming the gospel of God to you.10 You are witnesses, and so is God, that...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 25, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Born in Catalonia, Spain, she overcame many difficulties in her youth and eventually became a teacher at Lerida. Desirous to enter the religious life, she failed to win entry into the convent at the advice of her spiritual...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 25, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Thessalonians 2:1-8 1 You know yourselves, my brothers, that our visit to you has not been pointless.2 Although, as you know, we had received rough treatment and insults at Philippi, God gave us the courage to speak his gospel to you fearlessly, in...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 24, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Louis, King of France, patron of Tertiaries, was the ninth of his name. He was born at Poissy, France, in 1214. His father was Louis VIII, and his mother was Blanche, daughter of Alfonso VIII of Castille, surnamed the Conqueror. At the age of twelve he lost his...