by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Hebrews 4:12-16 12 The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two-edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgement on secret emotions and thoughts.13...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that — they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 1 Let us beware, then: since the promise never lapses, none of you must think that he has come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest.2 We received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no good...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 15, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
