by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2024 | Saint of the Day
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible. Damasus was a sixty-year-old deacon when he was elected bishop of Rome in 366. His...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:25-31 25 ‘To whom can you compare me, or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.26 Lift your eyes and look: he who created these things leads out their army in order, summoning each of them by name. So mighty is his power, so great his...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2024 | Saint of the Day
He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:1-11 1 ‘Console my people, console them,’ says your God.2 ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her that her period of service is ended, that her guilt has been atoned for, that, from the hand of Yahweh, she has received...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 8, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised...
