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Saint of the Day
St. John Francis Regis: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 16, 2023
St. John Francis Regis Confessor of the Society of Jesus June 16 True virtue, or Christian perfection, consists not in great or shining actions, but resides in the heart, and appears to great edification, though in the usual train of common and religious duties...
St. Germaine Cousin: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 15, 2023
When Hortense decided to marry Laurent Cousin in Pibrac, France, it was not out of love for his infant daughter. Germaine was everything Hortense despised. Weak and ill, the girl had also been born with a right hand that was deformed and paralyzed. Hortense replaced...
St. Methodius I: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Patriarch of Constantinople, modem Istanbul. He was born in Syracuse, Sicily, and builta monastery on the island of Chios. After some time in Constantinople, he was sent to Rome in 815 as the representative of Patriarch Nicephorus, who was exiled by Emperor Leo V the...
St. Anthony of Padua: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Saint Anthony was born Fernando Martins in Lisbon, Portugal. He was born into a wealthy family and by the age of fifteen asked to be sent to the Abbey of Santa Cruz in Coimbra, the then capital of Portugal. During his time in the Abbey, he learned theology and Latin....
St. John of Sahagun: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 12, 2023
John Gonzales de Castrillo was born at Sahagun, Leon Spain. He was educated by the Benedictine monks of Fagondez monastery there and when twenty, received a canonry from the bishop of Burgos, though he already had several benefices. He was ordained in 1445; concerned...
St. Barnabas: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 11, 2023
All we know of Barnabas is to be found in the New Testament. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the name Barnabas, and lived in common with the earliest converts to Christianity in Jerusalem....
St. Getulius: Saint of the Day for Saturday, June 10, 2023
Martyr with Amantius, Caerealis, and Primitivus. He was the husband of St. Symphorosa. An officer in the Roman army, he resigned when he became a Christian and returned to his estates near Tivoli, Italy. There he converted Caerealis, an imperial legate sent to arrest...
St. Ephrem: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 09, 2023
"I was born in the way of truth: though my childhood was unaware of the greatness of the benefit, I knew it when trial came." Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns and poems on the faith that inflamed and inspired the whole Church, but few facts...
St. William of York: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 08, 2023
St. William of York, Bishop (Feast day is June 8th). William of York was the son of Count Herbert, treasurer to Henry I. His mother Emma, was the half-sister of King William. Young William became treasurer of the church of York at an early age and was elected...
St. Willibald: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 07, 2023
Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 13, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5 18 At this, Judah went up to him and said, 'May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.19 My lord questioned his servants,...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 12, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 55 But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'56 There was famine all over the world. Then Joseph...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 11, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 32:23-33 23 That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.24 After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too.25 And Jacob was left...
Daily Readings for Monday, July 10, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 28:10-22 10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.11 When he had reached a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.12 He had a...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 09, 2023
Reading 1, Zechariah 9:9-10 9 Rejoice heart and soul, daughter of Zion! Shout for joy, daughter of Jerusalem! Look, your king is approaching, he is vindicated and victorious, humble and riding on a donkey, on a colt, the foal of a donkey.10 He will banish chariots...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 08, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 1 When Isaac had grown old, and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he summoned his elder son Esau. 'Son!' he said, and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'2 He then said, 'Look, I am old and do not know when I may die.3 Now take...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 07, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67 1 The length of Sarah's life was a hundred and twenty-seven years.2 She died at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan, and Abraham proceeded to mourn and bewail her.3 Then rising from beside his dead, Abraham...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 06, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 22:1-19 1 It happened some time later that God put Abraham to the test. 'Abraham, Abraham!' he called. 'Here I am,' he replied.2 God said, 'Take your son, your only son, your beloved Isaac, and go to the land of Moriah, where you are to offer him as...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 21:5, 8-20 5 Abraham was a hundred years old when his son Isaac was born to him.8 The child grew and was weaned, and Abraham gave a great banquet on the day Isaac was weaned.9 Now Sarah watched the son that Hagar the Egyptian had borne to Abraham,...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 04, 2023
Reading 1, Genesis 19:15-29 15 When dawn broke the angels urged Lot on, 'To your feet! Take your wife and your two daughters who are here, or you will be swept away in the punishment of the city.'16 And as he hesitated, the men seized his hand and the hands of his...