by RQue Royal Design | Jan 8, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Born in Africa, Adrian became abbot of the monastery at Nerida, near Naples. He declined an appointment as archbishop of Canterbury, but accompanied St. Theodore to England when the latter was appointed Archbishop. Theodore appointed him Abbot of SS. Peter and Paul...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 8, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First John 4:19-5:4 19 Let us love, then, because he first loved us.20 Anyone who says ‘I love God’ and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen.21 Indeed this is...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 7, 2025 | Saint of the Day
In the year 1285, there died in the Cistercian monastery at TerDoest, near Bruges, a Norwegian bishop named Thorfinn. He had never attracted particular attention and was soon forgotten. But over fifty years later, in the course of some building operations, his tomb in...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 7, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First John 4:11-18 11 My dear friends, if God loved us so much, we too should love one another.12 No one has ever seen God, but as long as we love one another God remains in us and his love comes to its perfection in us.13 This is the proof that we remain...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 6, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Raymond of Pennafort, Patron Saint of Canonists (Feast day – January 7) Born in Spain, St. Raymond was a relative of the King of Aragon. From childhood he had a tender love and devotion to the Blessed Mother. He finished his studies at an early age, and...