by RQue Royal Design | Jun 3, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Founder of the Minor Clerks Regular with St. John Augustine Adorno. He was born in 1563, a member of a noble Neapolitan family. Though he had a rare skin disease, much like leprosy, Francis became a priest, at which time his skin disease disappeared. In 1588, he...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 3, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two tablets of stone in his hands, Moses went up Mount Sinai in the early morning as Yahweh had ordered.5 And Yahweh descended in a cloud and stood with him there and...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 2, 2023 | Saint of the Day
For those of us who think that the faith and zeal of the early Christians died out as the Church grew more safe and powerful through the centuries, the martyrs of Uganda are a reminder that persecution of Christians continues in modern times, even to the present day....
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 2, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Sirach 51:12-20 12 And therefore I shall thank you and praise you, and bless the name of the Lord.13 When I was still a youth, before I went travelling, in my prayers I asked outright for wisdom.14 Outside the sanctuary I would pray for her, and to the last...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 1, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Though we know very little about these two martyrs under Diocletian, there is no question that the early church venerated them. Evidence of the respect in which they were held are the basilica Constantine built over their tombs and the presence of their names in the...
