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...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 4, 2020 | Daily Reading
Daily Reading for Friday June 5, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 3:10-17Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:157, 160, 161, 165, 166, 168Gospel, Mark 12:35-37 Reading 1, Second Timothy 3:10-17 10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my...
by RQue Royal Design | Jun 4, 2020 | Diocese of Altoona-Johnstown
Young people in our diocese have frequently heard me tell them that the foundational principle of Catholic social teaching is the following: Every human person is made in the image and likeness of God. Period. It’s in the Sacred Scriptures (Genesis 1:27). No further...
