by RQue Royal Design | Dec 12, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Lucy’s history has been lost and all we really know for certain is that this brave woman who lived in Syracuse lost her life during the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century. Her veneration spread to Rome so that by the sixth century the whole...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 12, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:25-31 25 ‘To whom can you compare me, or who is my equal?’ says the Holy One.26 Lift your eyes and look: he who created these things leads out their army in order, summoning each of them by name. So mighty is his power, so great his...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 11, 2023 | Saint of the Day
An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. Born under Aztec rule, he is a convert to Catholicism, and each step he takes this morning is a step...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 11, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2023 | Saint of the Day
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible. Damasus was a sixty-year-old deacon when he was elected bishop of Rome in 366. His...
