by RQue Royal Design | May 13, 2025 | Saint of the Day
How does one qualify to be an apostle? The first act of the apostles after the Ascension of Jesus was to find a replacement for Judas. With all the questions, doubts, and dangers facing them, they chose to focus their attention on finding a twelfth apostle. Why was...
by RQue Royal Design | May 13, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 1:15-17, 20-26 15 One day Peter stood up to speak to the brothers — there were about a hundred and twenty people in the congregation,16 ‘Brothers,’ he said, ‘the passage of scripture had to be fulfilled in which the Holy Spirit,...
by RQue Royal Design | May 12, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Bishop of Colonia in Palestine and a hermit. Born in Nicopolis, Armenia, he established a monastery at the age of eighteen. Appointed a bishop at the age of twenty-eight, he spent nine years in his office before retiring to Jerusalem to embrace the eremitical life....
by RQue Royal Design | May 12, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 11:19-26 19 Those who had scattered because of the persecution that arose over Stephen travelled as far as Phoenicia and Cyprus and Antioch, but they proclaimed the message only to Jews.20 Some of them, however, who came from Cyprus and Cyrene, went to...
by RQue Royal Design | May 11, 2025 | Saint of the Day
So often we hear people or even ourselves excuse an action by saying “I was only following orders.” But for Nereus and Achilleus this excuse could not stand in the face of the cross. Everything we know from authority about the two first- century martyrs...
