by RQue Royal Design | Mar 30, 2020 | Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Dear Brothers in Christ, Earlier today Governor Wolf extended his “Stay at Home” order to include Centre County. In keeping with our protocols announced earlier (March 20), in order to protect the faithful and follow this important restriction put in place...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 30, 2020 | Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Memo from: Bishop Mark To: All Clergy Date: March 25, 2020 Re: Celebration of the Liturgies of Holy Week and Especially the Sacred Triduum In this time of need, directives have been issued by the Congregation for Divine Worship and the Discipline of the Sacraments, as...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 30, 2020 | Saint of the Day
St. Benjamin, Martyr (Feast Day – March 31) The Christians in Persia had enjoyed twelve years of peace during the reign of Isdegerd, son of Sapor III, when in 420 it was disturbed by the indiscreet zeal of Abdas, a Christian Bishop who burned the Temple of Fire,...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 30, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Tuesday March 31, 2020 Reading 1, Numbers 21:4-9Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 102:2-3, 16-18, 19-21Gospel, John 8:21-30 Reading 1, Numbers 21:4-9 4 They left Mount Hor by the road to the Sea of Suph, to skirt round Edom. On the way the people lost...
by RQue Royal Design | Mar 29, 2020 | Saint of the Day
Also Peter Regalado, Franciscan reformer. Peter was born at Valladolid, Spain, to a noble family, and entered the Franciscan Order in his native city at the age of thirteen. After several years, he transferred to a far more austere monastery at Tribulos, where he...
