by RQue Royal Design | Jan 9, 2025 | Saint of the Day
William Berruyer, of the illustrious family of the ancient counts of Nevers, was educated by Peter the hermit, archdeacon of Soissons, his uncle by the mother’s side. He learned from his infancy to despise the folly and emptiness of the riches and grandeur of...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 9, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First John 5:5-13 5 Who can overcome the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?6 He it is who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with water alone but with water and blood, and it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit...
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...
