by RQue Royal Design | Oct 3, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or apologetic because he’d been gone, Pietro was furious because...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 3, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Nehemiah 2:1-8 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, since I was in charge of the wine, I took the wine and offered it to the king. Now, he had never seen me looking depressed before.2 So the king said to me, ‘Why are you...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 2, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called “the Fair” and one called “the Dark”, companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia, Netherlands....
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 2, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Zechariah 8:20-23 20 ‘Yahweh Sabaoth says this, “In the future, peoples and citizens of many cities will come;21 and citizens of one city will go to the next and say: We must certainly go to entreat Yahweh’s favour and seek out Yahweh...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 1, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent St....
