by RQue Royal Design | Oct 11, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and practices in opposition to the celtic ways of northern...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 11, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Malachi 3:13-20 13 ‘You have said harsh things about me, says Yahweh. And yet you say, “What have we said against you?”14 You have said, “It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 10, 2023 | Saint of the Day
The man who would be Pope John XXIII was born in the small village of Sotto il Monte in Italy, on November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to poor parents who made their living by sharecropping. Named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the baby would...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 10, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Jonah 4:1-11 1 This made Jonah very indignant; he fell into a rage.2 He prayed to Yahweh and said, ‘Please, Yahweh, isn’t this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That was why I first tried to flee to Tarshish, since I...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 9, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Francis was a young nobleman at the court of the King of Spain. He became a Duke when he was only thirty-three and lived a happy, peaceful life with his wife Eleanor and their eight children. But unlike so many other powerful nobles, Francis was a perfect Christian...
