by RQue Royal Design | Oct 3, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or apologetic because he’d been gone, Pietro was furious because...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 3, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 5 Take courage, my people, memorial of Israel!6 You were sold to the nations, but not for extermination. You provoked God; and so were delivered to your enemies,7 since you had angered your Creator by offering sacrifices to demons, and...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 2, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called “the Fair” and one called “the Dark”, companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia, Netherlands....
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 2, 2025 | Daily Reading
Reading 1, Baruch 1:15-22 15 You must say: Saving justice is the Lord’s, we have only the look of shame we bear, as is the case today for the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,16 for our kings and princes, our priests, our prophets, and for our...
by RQue Royal Design | Oct 1, 2025 | Saint of the Day
Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent St....
