by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2023 | Saint of the Day
He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 1 ‘Console my people, console them,’ says your God.2 ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her that her period of service is ended, that her guilt has been atoned for, that, from the hand of Yahweh, she has...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 8, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Saint Juan Diego was born in 1474 as Cuauhtlatoatzin, a native to Mexico. He became the first Roman Catholic indigenous saint from the Americas. Following the early death of his father, Juan Diego was taken to live with his uncle. From the age of three, he was raised...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 8, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Dec 7, 2023 | Saint of the Day
In the account of St Amatus of Remiremont it is related how he brought about the conversion to God of a Merovingian nobleman named Romaric, who became a monk at Luxeuil; and how they afterwards went together to the estate of Romaric at Habendum in the Vosges, and...