by RQue Royal Design | Sep 8, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Peter Claver was born at Verdu, Catalonia, Spain, in 1580, of impoverished parents descended from ancient and distinguished families. He studied at the Jesuit college of Barcelona, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona in 1602 and took his final vows on August...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 8, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:6-11 6 Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?7 Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 7, 2024 | Saint of the Day
According to legend Adrian was a pagan officer at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of a group of Christians who were being tortured, he declared himself a Christian and was imprisoned with them and suffered excruciating tortures before he was...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 7, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 35:4-7 4 and say to the faint-hearted, ‘Be strong! Do not be afraid. Here is your God, vengeance is coming, divine retribution; he is coming to save you.’5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed,6 then...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 6, 2024 | Saint of the Day
On the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, in the year 511 his kingdom was divided between his four sons, of whom the second was Clodomir. Thirteen years later he was killed fighting against his cousin, Gondomar, leaving three sons to share his dominions. The...
