by RQue Royal Design | May 22, 2020 | Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Bishop Mark Bartchak has announced that the public celebration of the Sacrament of Reconciliation may resume at parishes beginning on May 23, 2020. Click HERE for a county-by-county schedule of upcoming Reconciliation opportunities at various parishes in the Diocese...
by RQue Royal Design | May 21, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Saint Rita was born Margherita Lotti in Roccaporena, Italy in 1381. The day after her baptism, Rita was surrounded by a swarm of white bees, which went in and out of her infant mouth without hurting her. Rather than being alarmed, her family believed she was marked to...
by RQue Royal Design | May 21, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Friday May 22, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 18:9-18Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7Gospel, John 16:20-23 Reading 1, Acts 18:9-18 9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, ‘Be fearless; speak out and do not keep silence: 10 I am with...
by RQue Royal Design | May 20, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Eugene de Mazenod was born on August 1, 1782, at Aix-en-Provence in France. Early in life he experienced the upheaval of the French Revolution. None the less, he entered the seminary, and following ordination he returned to labor in Aix-en-Provence. That area had...
by RQue Royal Design | May 20, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Thursday May 21, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9Gospel, Matthew 28:16-20Reading 2, Ephesians 1:17-23 Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11 1 In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught...
