by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 20, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 ‘Up!’ he said, ‘Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.’3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 19, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 19, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 55:10-11 10 For, as the rain and the snow come down from the sky and do not return before having watered the earth, fertilising it and making it germinate to provide seed for the sower and food to eat,11 so it is with the word that goes from my...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 18, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Alvarez was born in either Lisbon, Portugal, or Cordova, Spain. He entered the Dominican convent at Cordova in 1368. He became known for his preaching prowess in Spain and Italy, was confessor and adviser of Queen Catherine, John of Gaunt’s daughter, and tutor...
