by RQue Royal Design | May 19, 2020 | Saint of the Day
In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as twenty people died each day just in the hospital alone. And many of the people who died were those who were needed to tend...
by RQue Royal Design | May 19, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Wednesday May 20, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22–18:1Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14Gospel, John 16:12-15 Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22–18:1 15 Paul’s escort took him as far as Athens, and went back with instructions...
by RQue Royal Design | May 18, 2020 | Saint of the Day
When the father of this Italian saint died, his good mother brought up her twelve children well, even though they were very poor. “Oh, if I could only have the joy of seeing one of you become a saint!” she use to say. Once when she asked as usual,...
by RQue Royal Design | May 18, 2020 | 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...
by RQue Royal Design | May 17, 2020 | Saint of the Day
St. John I, Pope and Martyr (Feast day – May 18) A native of Tuscany in Italy, John was elected Pope while he was still an archdeacon upon the death of Pope Hormisdas in 523. At that time, the ruler of Italy was Theodoric the Goth who subscribed to the Arian...
