by RQue Royal Design | Jul 11, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Saint John Gaulbert, Abbot – Feast day is July 12th The city of Florence gave to the world Saint John Gaulbert. Although he enjoyed the benefits of an early Christian education, his youthful heart was soon attracted to the vanities of the world. A painful...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 11, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 49:29-33; 50:15-24 29 Then he gave them these instructions, ‘I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,30 in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 10, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. The subject that dominated...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 10, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 1 So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.2 God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, ‘Jacob, Jacob,’ he said. ‘Here I am,’ he...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 9, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in...
