by RQue Royal Design | Sep 16, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Born at Montepulciano, Italy, October 4, 1542, St. Robert Bellarmine was the third of ten children. His mother, Cinzia Cervini, a niece of Pope Marcellus II, was dedicated to almsgiving, prayer, meditation, fasting, and mortification of the body. Robert entered the...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 16, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Thursday September 17, 2020 Reading 1, First Corinthians 15:1-11Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 118:1-2, 16-17, 28Gospel, Luke 7:36-50 Reading 1, First Corinthians 15:1-11 1 I want to make quite clear to you, brothers, what the message of the gospel that...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 15, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Cornelius whose feast day is September 16th. A Roman priest, Cornelius was elected Pope to succeed Fabian in an election delayed fourteen months by Decius’ persecution of the Christians. The main issue of his pontificate was the treatment to be accorded...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 15, 2020 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, First Corinthians 12:31–13:13 31 Set your mind on the higher gifts. And now I am going to put before you the best way of all.1 Though I command languages both human and angelic — if I speak without love, I am no more than a gong booming or a...
by RQue Royal Design | Sep 14, 2020 | Saint of the Day
The massacre of the martyrs of Lyons with their bishop, St. Pothinus, took place during the persecutions of Marcus Aurelius in the year 177. Marcellus, a priest, we are told, by Divine intervention, managed to escape to Chalon-sur-Saone, where he was given shelter....
