by RQue Royal Design | Jan 27, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Thomas is believed to have been born in the castle of Roccasecca in the old county of the Kingdom of Sicily, which is now known as the Lazio region of Italy, in 1225. His parents were well-off, but as the youngest son Thomas was expected to enter the monastery. At...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 27, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 18:15-20 15 Yahweh your God will raise up a prophet like me; you will listen to him.16 This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God to do — at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, when you said, “Never let me hear the voice of Yahweh...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 26, 2024 | Saint of the Day
St. Angela Merici was an Italian religious educator and founder of the Ursulines whose deep prayer life and relationship with the Lord bore the fruit of mystical encounters with God. She was born on March 21, 1474 in Desenzano, a small town on the shore of Lake Garda...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 26, 2024 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Samuel 12:1-7, 10-17 35 With the coming of evening that same day, he said to them, ‘Let us cross over to the other side.’36 And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.37...
by RQue Royal Design | Jan 25, 2024 | Saint of the Day
Born at Lystra, Lycaenia, Timothy was the son of a Greek father and Eunice, a converted Jewess. He joined St. Paul when Paul preached at Lystra replacing Barnabas, and became Paul’s close friend and confidant. Paul allowed him to be circumcised to placate the...