by RQue Royal Design | Aug 3, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Numbers 11:4-15 4 The rabble who had joined the people were feeling the pangs of hunger, and the Israelites began to weep again. ‘Who will give us meat to eat?’ they said.5 ‘Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers,...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 2, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Lydia Purpuraria (1st century) was born at Thyatira (Ak-Hissar), a town in Asia Minor, famous for its dye works, (hence, her name which means purple seller). She became Paul’s first convert at Philippi. She was baptized with her household, and Paul stayed at her...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 2, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 1:2; 2:21-23 2 Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile!21 For here is one who has laboured wisely, skilfully and successfully and must leave what is his own to someone who has not toiled for it at all. This is futile...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 1, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Christians who breathed a sigh of relief when Constantine proclaimed Christianity the state religion, believing this would end the bloodshed and martyrdom. But it was all too short a time until they were facing persecution once more — from others who claimed to...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 1, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Leviticus 25:1, 8-17 1 Yahweh spoke to Moses on Mount Sinai and said:8 “You will count seven weeks of years — seven times seven years, that is to say a period of seven weeks of years, forty-nine years.9 And on the tenth day of the seventh month...
