by RQue Royal Design | Nov 23, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Through the missionary efforts of various religious families beginning in the sixteenth century and continuing until 1866, the Vietnamese people heard the message of the gospel, and many accepted it despite persecution and even death. On June 19, 1988, Pope John Paul...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 23, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9 1 But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, and no torment can touch them.2 To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, their departure was regarded as disaster,3 their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace.4 If, as it...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 22, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Born on January 13, 1891 in Guadalupe, Mexico, Miguel Agustin Pro Juarez was the eldest son of Miguel Pro and Josefa Juarez. Miguelito, as his doting family called him, was, from an early age, intensely spiritual and equally intense in hi mischievousness, frequently...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 22, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Maccabees 2:15-29 15 The king’s commissioners who were enforcing the apostasy came to the town of Modein for the sacrifices.16 Many Israelites gathered round them, but Mattathias and his sons drew apart.17 The king’s commissioners then...
by RQue Royal Design | Nov 21, 2023 | Saint of the Day
In the fourth century a Greek religious romance on the Loves of Cecilia and Valerian was written in glorification of virginal life with the purpose of taking the place of then-popular sensual romances. Consequently, until better evidence is produced, we must conclude...
