by RQue Royal Design | Jun 6, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 6, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Sunday June 7, 2020 Reading 1, Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56Gospel, John 3:16-18Reading 2, Second Corinthians 13:11-13 Reading 1, Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 5, 2020 | Saint of the Day
St. Norbert was born at Xanten in the Rhineland, about the year 1080. The early part of his life was devoted to the world and its pleasures. He entered upon the ecclesiastical state in a worldly spirit. The thunderstorm had boiled up suddenly as Norbert was out...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 5, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Saturday June 6, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 71:8-9, 14-15, 16-17, 22Gospel, Mark 12:38-44 Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8 1 Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 4, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest because he was convinced he was called to missionary work. He had argued and pestered his abbot...
