by RQue Royal Design | Nov 19, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29 15 The king’s commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices.16 Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart.17 The king’s commissioners then...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 18, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Bishop and martyr, the father of St. Isaac the Great. A native of Armenia, he studied in Cappadocia and wed a princess who gave birth to Isaac. After she died, he served as a chamber lain in the court of King Arshak of Armenia. In 353 he was made Catholicos of the...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 18, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Maccabees 7:1, 20-31 1 It also happened that seven brothers were arrested with their mother. The king tried to force them to taste some pork, which the Law forbids, by torturing them with whips and scourges.20 But the mother was especially admirable...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 17, 2025 | Saint of the Day
St. Rose Philippine Duchesne, Virgin (Feast day – November 18) Born in Grenoble, France, in 1769, Rose joined the Society of the Sacred Heart. In 1818, when she was forty-nine years old, Rose was sent to the United States. She founded a boarding school for...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 17, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Maccabees 6:18-31 18 Eleazar, one of the foremost teachers of the Law, a man already advanced in years and of most noble appearance, had his mouth forced open, to make him eat a piece of pork.19 But he, resolving to die with honour rather than to...
