by RQue Royal Design | Jan 16, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 32 David said to Saul, ‘Let no one be discouraged on his account; your servant will go and fight this Philistine.’33 Saul said to David, ‘You cannot go and fight the Philistine; you are only a boy and he...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 15, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 15, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 16:1-13 1 Yahweh said to Samuel, ‘How much longer do you mean to go on mourning over Saul, now that I myself have rejected him as ruler of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have found...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 14, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 14, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23 16 Samuel then said to Saul, ‘Stop! Let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.’ He said, ‘Go on.’17 Samuel said, ‘Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you not the leader of the tribes of...
