by RQue Royal Design | May 13, 2026 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11 1 In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning2 until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven.3 He had shown...
by RQue Royal Design | May 12, 2026 | Saint of the Day
Bishop of Colonia in Palestine and a hermit. Born in Nicopolis, Armenia, he established a monastery at the age of eighteen. Appointed a bishop at the age of twenty-eight, he spent nine years in his office before retiring to Jerusalem to embrace the eremitical life....
by RQue Royal Design | May 12, 2026 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 15 Paul’s escort took him as far as Athens, and went back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin Paul as soon as they could.22 So Paul stood before the whole council of the Areopagus and made this speech: ‘Men of...
by RQue Royal Design | May 11, 2026 | Saint of the Day
So often we hear people or even ourselves excuse an action by saying “I was only following orders.” But for Nereus and Achilleus this excuse could not stand in the face of the cross. Everything we know from authority about the two first- century martyrs...
by RQue Royal Design | May 11, 2026 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Acts 16:22-34 22 The crowd joined in and showed its hostility to them, so the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be flogged.23 They were given many lashes and then thrown into prison, and the gaoler was told to keep a close watch on them.24...
