by RQue Royal Design | Dec 11, 2024 | Saint of the Day
An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. Born under Aztec rule, he is a convert to Catholicism, and each step he takes this morning is a step...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 11, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Zechariah 2:14-17 14 Sing, rejoice, daughter of Zion, for now I am coming to live among you -Yahweh declares!15 And on that day many nations will be converted to Yahweh. Yes, they will become his people, and they will live among you. Then you will know that...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2024 | Saint of the Day
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible. Damasus was a sixty-year-old deacon when he was elected bishop of Rome in 366. His...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:25-31 25 ‘To whom can you compare me, or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.26 Lift your eyes and look: he who created these things leads out their army in order, summoning each of them by name. So mighty is his power, so great his...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2024 | Saint of the Day
He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about...
