by RQue Royal Design | Apr 18, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 9:1-20 1 Meanwhile Saul was still breathing threats to slaughter the Lord’s disciples. He went to the high priest2 and asked for letters addressed to the synagogues in Damascus, that would authorise him to arrest and take to Jerusalem any...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 17, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Martyr whose Apologia, or defense of the faith, is considered one of the most priceless documents of the early Church. Apollonius was a Roman senator who was denounced as a Christian by one of his slaves. The Praetorian Prefect, Sextus Tigidius Perennis, arrested him,...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 17, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 8:26-40 26 The angel of the Lord spoke to Philip saying, ‘Set out at noon and go along the road that leads from Jerusalem down to Gaza, the desert road.’27 So he set off on his journey. Now an Ethiopian had been on pilgrimage to Jerusalem;...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Anicetus was a Syrian from Emesa. He became pope about 155 and actively opposed Marcionism and Gnosticism. His pontificate saw the appearance of the controversy between East and West over the date of Easter. St. Polycarp, a disciple of John, is reported to have...
by RQue Royal Design | Apr 16, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 8:1-8 1 Saul approved of the killing. That day a bitter persecution started against the church in Jerusalem, and everyone except the apostles scattered to the country districts of Judaea and Samaria.2 There were some devout people, however, who buried...
