by RQue Royal Design | Dec 15, 2025 | Saint of the Day
An archbishop and scholar, Ado was born in Sens and educated at the Benedictine abbey of Ferrieres. Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impressed with the obvious holiness of the young man. A noble by birth, Ado renounced...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 15, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Zephaniah 3:1-2, 9-13 1 Disaster to the rebellious, the befouled, the tyrannical city!2 She has not listened to the call, she has not bowed to correction, she has not trusted in Yahweh, she has not drawn near to her God.9 Yes, then I shall purge the lips of...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 14, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Saint Mary (Paula) Di Rosa December 15 The pounding on the barricaded door of the military hospital sent every heart thudding in terror. In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in 1848, the wounded, sick, and those who cared for them knew what that pounding meant....
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 14, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Numbers 24:2-7, 15-17 2 Raising his eyes Balaam saw Israel settled tribe by tribe; the spirit of God came on him3 and he declaimed his poem, as follows: The prophecy of Balaam son of Beor, the prophecy of the man with far-seeing eyes,4 the prophecy of one...
by RQue Royal Design | Dec 13, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Saint John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542. His father was employed by wealthy family members as an accountant, but they disowned him when he married a poor woman from the lower class. As a result of his family�s...