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...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 10, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 35:1-10 1 Let the desert and the dry lands be glad, let the wasteland rejoice and bloom; like the asphodel,2 let it burst into flower, let it rejoice and sing for joy. The glory of Lebanon is bestowed on it, the splendour of Carmel and Sharon; then...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2023 | Saint of the Day
He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 9, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11 1 ‘Console my people, console them,’ says your God.2 ‘Speak to the heart of Jerusalem and cry to her that her period of service is ended, that her guilt has been atoned for, that, from the hand of Yahweh, she has...
