by RQue Royal Design | Feb 16, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Founder and mystic, one of the first Servants of Mary or Servites. The son of a wealthy merchant in Florence, Italy, Alexis and six companions joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin in Florence in 1225. Gathered together on the Feast of the Assumption in 1233,...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 16, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:9-14 9 Then you will cry for help and Yahweh will answer; you will call and he will say, ‘I am here.’ If you do away with the yoke, the clenched fist and malicious words,10 if you deprive yourself for the hungry and satisfy the needs...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 15, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Died in 309, He and four companions, Elias, Isaias, Jeremy and Samuel were Egyptians who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of Cilicia during Maximus persecution, to comfort them. Apprehended at the gates of Caesarea, Palestine, they were brought before...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 15, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:1-9 1 Shout for all you are worth, do not hold back, raise your voice like a trumpet. To my people proclaim their rebellious acts, to the House of Jacob, their sins.2 They seek for me day after day, they long to know my ways, like a nation that...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 14, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Walfrid or Galfrido della Gherardesca was born in Pisa, of which he became a prosperous and honored citizen. He married a wife to whom he was deeply attached, and they had five sons and at least one daughter. After a time, Walfrid and his wife Thesia felt that God was...
