by RQue Royal Design | Jul 11, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 55 But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, ‘Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.’56 There was famine all over the world....
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 10, 2023 | Saint of the Day
St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. The subject that dominated...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 10, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 32:23-33 23 That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.24 After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too.25 And Jacob was left...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 9, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in...
by RQue Royal Design | Jul 9, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Genesis 28:10-22 10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.11 When he had reached a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.12 He had a...