by RQue Royal Design | Oct 12, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013 when the Danes under Sweyn and his son Canute invaded England....
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 12, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Wisdom 7:7-11 7 And so I prayed, and understanding was given me; I entreated, and the spirit of Wisdom came to me.8 I esteemed her more than sceptres and thrones; compared with her, I held riches as nothing.9 I reckoned no precious stone to be her equal,...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 11, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and practices in opposition to the celtic ways of northern...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 11, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Galatians 3:22-29 22 As it is, scripture makes no exception when it says that sin is master everywhere; so the promise can be given only by faith in Jesus Christ to those who have this faith.23 But before faith came, we were kept under guard by the Law,...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 10, 2024 | Saint of the Day
The man who would be Pope John XXIII was born in the small village of Sotto il Monte in Italy, on November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to poor parents who made their living by sharecropping. Named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the baby would...
