by RQue Royal Design | Jan 18, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew’s monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 18, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 24:3-21 3 Saul thereupon took three thousand men selected from all Israel and went in search of David and his men east of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.4 He came to the sheepfolds along the route, where there was a cave, and went in to cover...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 17, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1 Saul let his son Jonathan and all his servants know of his intention to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul’s son, held David in great affection;2 and Jonathan warned David, ‘My father Saul is looking for a way to kill...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that — they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
