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Saint of the Day
St. Ignatius of Antioch: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 17, 2025
"I prefer death in Christ Jesus to power over the farthest limits of the earth. He who died in place of us is the one object of my quest. He who rose for our sakes is my one desire." In 107, during the reign of the brutal Emperor Trajan, this holy Bishop was...
St. Gerard Majella: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 16, 2025
St. Gerard Majella is the patron of expectant mothers. He was born in 1726 in Muro, Italy to a family of seven. Majella grew up in a poverty with a great respect for the poor. As he was just 12 when his father passed away, he was forced to grow up fast. Shortly after...
St. Teresa of Avila: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Teresa of Avila was born Teresa Ali Fatim Corella Sanchez de Capeda y Ahumada in Avila, Spain. Less than twenty years before Teresa was born in 1515, Columbus opened up the Western Hemisphere to European colonization. Two years after she was born, Luther started the...
St. Callistus I: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have not only for the rest of your life but for centuries to come. You would never be able to refute it -- and even if you couldno one would believe you because...
St. Edward the Confessor: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 13, 2025
Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013 when the Danes under Sweyn and his son Canute invaded England....
St. Wilfrid: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 12, 2025
Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and practices in opposition to the celtic ways of northern...
St. John XXIII: Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 11, 2025
The man who would be Pope John XXIII was born in the small village of Sotto il Monte in Italy, on November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to poor parents who made their living by sharecropping. Named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the baby would...
St. Francis Borgia: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 10, 2025
Francis was a young nobleman at the court of the King of Spain. He became a Duke when he was only thirty-three and lived a happy, peaceful life with his wife Eleanor and their eight children. But unlike so many other powerful nobles, Francis was a perfect Christian...
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 09, 2025
The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth century in the writings of Saint Gregory of Tours. Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three. Born and raised in Italy, he was sent as a...
St. Pelagia: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Pelagia, more often called Margaret, on account of the magnificence of the pearls for which she had so often sold herself, was an actress of Antioch, equally celebrated for her beauty, her wealth and the disorder ofher life. During a synod at Antioch, she passed...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 16, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 3:21-29 21 God's saving justice was witnessed by the Law and the Prophets, but now it has been revealed altogether apart from law:22 God's saving justice given through faith in Jesus Christ to all who believe.23 No distinction is made: all have...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 15, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 2:1-11 1 So no matter who you are, if you pass judgement you have no excuse. It is yourself that you condemn when you judge others, since you behave in the same way as those you are condemning.2 We are well aware that people who behave like that are...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 14, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 1:16-25 16 For I see no reason to be ashamed of the gospel; it is God's power for the salvation of everyone who has faith -- Jews first, but Greeks as well-17 for in it is revealed the saving justice of God: a justice based on faith and addressed to...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 13, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 1:1-7 1 From Paul, a servant of Christ Jesus, called to be an apostle,2 set apart for the service of the gospel that God promised long ago through his prophets in the holy scriptures.3 This is the gospel concerning his Son who, in terms of human...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 12, 2025
Reading 1, Second Kings 5:14-17 14 So he went down and immersed himself seven times in the Jordan, as Elisha had told him to do. And his flesh became clean once more like the flesh of a little child.15 Returning to Elisha with his whole escort, he went in and,...
Daily Readings for Saturday, October 11, 2025
Reading 1, Joel 4:12-21 12 'Let the nations rouse themselves and march to the Valley of Jehoshaphat, for there I shall sit in judgement on all the nations around.13 Ply the sickle, for the harvest is ripe; come and tread, for the winepress is full; the vats are...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 10, 2025
Reading 1, Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 13 Priests, put on sackcloth and lament! You ministers of the altar, wail! Come here, lie in sackcloth all night long, you ministers of my God! For the Temple of your God has been deprived of cereal offering and libation.14 Order a fast,...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 09, 2025
Reading 1, Malachi 3:13-20 13 'You have said harsh things about me, says Yahweh. And yet you say, "What have we said against you?"14 You have said, "It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before Yahweh Sabaoth?15...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 4:1-11 1 This made Jonah very indignant; he fell into a rage.2 He prayed to Yahweh and said, 'Please, Yahweh, isn't this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That was why I first tried to flee to Tarshish, since I knew you were...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.'3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city...