by RQue Royal Design | Aug 18, 2024 | Saint of the Day
John Eudes was born at Ri, Normandy, France, on November 14, 1601, the son of a farmer. He went to the Jesuit college at Caen when he was 14, and despite his parents’ wish that he marry, joined the Congregation of the Oratory of France in 1623. He studied at...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 18, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Ezekiel 24:15-24 15 The word of Yahweh was addressed to me as follows,16 ‘Son of man, at a blow I am about to deprive you of the delight of your eyes. But you are not to lament, not to weep, not to let your tears run down.17 Groan in silence, do not...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Helena was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great and an Empress of the Roman Empire. Very little is known about Helena’s early life, but it is believed she is from Drepanum (later known as Helenopolis) in Asia Minor and born into a poor family and...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 17, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Proverbs 9:1-6 1 Wisdom has built herself a house, she has hewn her seven pillars,2 she has slaughtered her beasts, drawn her wine, she has laid her table.3 She has despatched her maidservants and proclaimed from the heights above the city,4 ‘Who is...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Clare was born at Montefalco, Italy, around 1268. As a young woman she joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries. This group established Holy Cross Convent at Montefalco in 1290, adopting the Rule of St. Augustine. Clare’s sister Joan was the abbess of this...
