by RQue Royal Design | Jul 7, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk. He became the abbot of New Minster Abbey at Winchester appointed by King Edward the Elder....
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 7, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Hosea 2:16, 17-18, 21-22 16 But look, I am going to seduce her and lead her into the desert and speak to her heart.17 There I shall give her back her vineyards, and make the Vale of Achor a gateway of hope. There she will respond as when she was young, as...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 6, 2024 | Saint of the Day
English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 6, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 As he said these words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.3 He said, ‘Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 5, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, in the Ancona Province in Italy, her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. When he died of malaria, Maria’s mother had to struggle to feed her children. Maria’s mother, brothers, and...
