by RQue Royal Design | Mar 5, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 5, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 1 ‘And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.5 Look:...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 4, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. John Joseph of the Cross was born about the middle of the seventeenth century in the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. From his childhood he was the model of virtue, and in his sixteenth year he entered the Franciscan Order of the Strictest Observance, or...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 4, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Daniel 3:25, 34-43 25 Azariah stood in the heart of the fire, praying aloud thus:34 Do not abandon us for ever, for the sake of your name; do not repudiate your covenant,35 do not withdraw your favour from us, for the sake of Abraham, your friend, of Isaac,...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 3, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Casimir grew up in a world where his life was not his own. As a prince of Poland, the second son of King Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria, his life was scheduled to cement his father’s authority and increase Poland’s power. Casimir realized from an...
