by RQue Royal Design | Feb 21, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret’s mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped with a...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 21, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Peter 5:1-4 1 I urge the elders among you, as a fellow-elder myself and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and as one who is to have a share in the glory that is to be revealed:2 give a shepherd’s care to the flock of God that is entrusted...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 11:1-9 1 The whole world spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary.2 Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled.3 They said to one another, ‘Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 19, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
