by RQue Royal Design | Jan 28, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Two martyrs, brother and sister, who were put to death at Edessa during the persecutions of Emperor Trajan. Sarbelius, also called Sharbel, was a high priest at Edessa, in Mesopotamia. They were arrested for converting to the faith, and were tortured with red-hot...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 28, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Samuel 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13 13 A messenger came and told David, ‘The men of Israel have shifted their allegiance to Absalom.’14 David said to all his retinue then with him in Jerusalem, ‘Up, let us flee, or we shall not escape from...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 27, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Thomas is believed to have been born in the castle of Roccasecca in the old county of the Kingdom of Sicily, which is now known as the Lazio region of Italy, in 1225. His parents were well-off, but as the youngest son Thomas was expected to enter the monastery. At...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 27, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 18:15-20 15 Yahweh your God will raise up a prophet like me; you will listen to him.16 This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God to do — at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, when you said, “Never let me hear the voice of Yahweh...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 26, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Angela Merici was an Italian religious educator and founder of the Ursulines whose deep prayer life and relationship with the Lord bore the fruit of mystical encounters with God. She was born on March 21, 1474 in Desenzano, a small town on the shore of Lake Garda...
