by RQue Royal Design | Jul 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, Martyr Frederick was trained in piety and sacred learning among the clergy of the Church of Utrecht. Being ordained priest, he was charged by Bishop Ricfried with the care of instructing converts, and about 825 he was chosen to...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 17, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 26:7-9, 12, 16-19 7 The path of the Upright One is honesty; you smooth the honest way of the upright.8 Following the path of your judgements, Yahweh, we set our hopes in you, your name, your memory are all our soul desires.9 At night my soul longs...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 16, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 10:5-7, 13-16 5 Woe to Assyria, rod of my anger, the club in their hands is my fury!6 I was sending him against a godless nation, commissioning him against the people who enraged me, to pillage and plunder at will and trample on them like the mud in...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 15, 2024 | Saint of the Day
According to my resources, the name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which...
