by RQue Royal Design | Aug 6, 2023 | Saint of the Day
In 1523, the Church was in sad shape. People could not get the spiritual nourishment they needed from the large numbers of uneducated and even immoral priests who took their money but returned nothing. When good priests and laypeople turned to the hierarchy for help,...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 6, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Numbers 11:4-15 4 The rabble who had joined the people were feeling the pangs of hunger, and the Israelites began to weep again. ‘Who will give us meat to eat?’ they said.5 ‘Think of the fish we used to eat free in Egypt, the cucumbers,...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 5, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Pope from 514-523, successor to St. Symmachus, and father of Pope St. Silverius Born in Frosinone, Campagna di Roma, Italy, he was an Italian, although he had a Persian name. Married and widowed prior to ordination, he succeeded St. Symmachus on July 21, 514. One of...
by RQue Royal Design | Aug 5, 2023 | Daily Reading
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by RQue Royal Design | Aug 4, 2023 | Saint of the Day
A disciple of Christ sent by St. Thomas to the court of King Abgar the Black, the second century Osroene ruler. Legendary accounts claim Abgar wrote to Christ asking Jesus to cure him of an intolerable and incurable illness. Abgar’s court was in Edessa in Asia...
