by RQue Royal Design | Jun 19, 2023 | Saint of the Day
Martyr of Japan. A native of Korea, he was brought to Japan in 1591 as a prisoner of war and was subsequently converted to Christianity. Entering the Jesuits, he studied at the Jesuit seminary of Arima and worked for three decades as a catechist in both Japan and...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 19, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 8:1-9 1 Next, brothers, we will tell you of the grace of God which has been granted to the churches of Macedonia,2 and how, throughout continual ordeals of hardship, their unfailing joy and their intense poverty have overflowed in a...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 18, 2023 | Saint of the Day
St. Romuald was born at Ravenna about the year 956. In spite of an infinite desire for virtue and sanctity, his early life was wasted in the service of the world and its pleasures. Then one day, obliged by his father, Sergius, to be present at a duel fought by him, he...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 18, 2023 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 6:1-10 1 As his fellow-workers, we urge you not to let your acceptance of his grace come to nothing.2 As he said, ‘At the time of my favour I have answered you; on the day of salvation I have helped you’; well, now is the real...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 17, 2023 | Saint of the Day
St. Gregory Barbarigo was born in 1625, of a very old and distinguished Venetian family. A brilliant student, he embraced a diplomatic career and accompanied the Venetian Ambassador, Contarini, to the Congress of Munster in 1648. Then he became a priest and was soon...
