by RQue Royal Design | Feb 1, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Joan de Lestonnac was born in Bordeaux, France, in 1556. She married at the age of seventeen. The happy marriage produced four children, but her husband died suddenly in 1597. After her children were raised, she entered the Cistercian monastery at Toulouse. Joan...
by RQue Royal Design | Feb 1, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Malachi 3:1-4 1 ‘Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his Temple; yes, the angel of the covenant, for whom you long, is on his way, says Yahweh Sabaoth.2 Who will be able to resist...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 31, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Saint Brigid was born Brigit, and shares a name with a Celtic goddess from whom many legends and folk customs are associated. There is much debate over her birthparents, but it is widely believed her mother was Brocca, a Christian baptized by Saint Patrick, and her...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 31, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Kings 2:1-4, 10-12 10 but he did not invite the prophet Nathan, or Benaiah, or the champions, or his brother Solomon.11 Nathan then said to Bathsheba, Solomon’s mother, ‘Have you not heard that, unknown to our lord David, Adonijah son of...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 30, 2024 | Saint of the Day
John Bosco, also known as Giovanni Melchiorre Bosco and Don Bosco, was born in Becchi, Italy, on August 16, 1815. His birth came just after the end of the Napoleonic Wars which ravaged the area. Compounding the problems on his birthday, there was also a drought and a...
