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Saint of the Day
St. Alexis Falconieri: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 17, 2021
Founder and mystic, one of the first Servants of Mary or Servites. The son of a wealthy merchant in Florence, Italy, Alexis and six companions joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin in Florence in 1225. Gathered together on the Feast of the Assumption in 1233,...
St. Daniel: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Died in 309, He and four companions, Elias, Isaias, Jeremy and Samuel were Egyptians who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of Cilicia during Maximus persecution, to comfort them. Apprehended at the gates of Caesarea, Palestine, they were brought before...
St. Walfrid: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 15, 2021
Walfrid or Galfrido della Gherardesca was born in Pisa, of which he became a prosperous and honored citizen. He married a wife to whom he was deeply attached, and they had five sons and at least one daughter. After a time, Walfrid and his wife Thesia felt that God was...
St. Valentine: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 14, 2021
Click Here for St. Valentine Prayer's Saint Valentine, officially known as Saint Valentine of Rome, is a third-century Roman saint widely celebrated on February 14 and commonly associated with "courtly love." Although not much of St. Valentine's life is reliably...
St. Catherine de Ricci: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 13, 2021
St. Catherine was born in Florence in 1522. Her baptismal name was Alexandrina, but she took the name of Catherine upon entering religion. From her earliest infancy she manifested a great love of prayer, and in her sixth year, her father placed her in the convent of...
St. Buonfiglio Monaldo: Saint of the Day for Friday, February 12, 2021
He was one of seven Florentines who had joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin (the Laudesi) in a particularly lax period in the city's history and who were inspired by a vision on the feast of the Assumption to take up a life of solitude and prayer. After...
St. Paschal: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 11, 2021
Paschal was the son of Bonosus, a Roman. He studied at the Lateran, was named head of St. Stephen's monastery, which housed pilgrims to Rome, and was elected Pope to succeed Pope Stephen IV (V) on the day Stephen died, January 25, 817. Emperor Louis the Pious agreed...
St. Scholastica: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 10, 2021
St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a...
St. Apollonia: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 09, 2021
St. Apollonia, who died in the year 249, was martyred for not renouncing her faith during the reign of Emperor Philip. The account of the life of St. Apollonia was written by St. Dionysius to Fabian, Bishop of Antioch. Apollonia had all her teeth knocked out after...
St. Jerome Emiliani: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 08, 2021
Jerome Emiliani lay chained in the dark dirty dungeon. Only a short time before he had been a military commander for Venice in charge of a fortress. He didn't care much about God because he didn't need him -- he had his own strength and the strength of his soldiers...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, June 23, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 11:18, 21-30 18 So many people boast on merely human grounds that I shall too.21 I say it to your shame; perhaps we have been too weak. Whatever bold claims anyone makes -- now I am talking as a fool -- I can make them too.22 Are they...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 22, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 11:1-11 1 I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me -- not that you don't do this already.2 The jealousy that I feel for you is, you see, God's own jealousy: I gave you all in marriage to a single husband, a virgin pure...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 21, 2023
FREE Catholic Classes Pick a class, you can learn anything Reading 1, Second Corinthians 9:6-11 6 But remember: anyone who sows sparsely will reap sparsely as well -- and anyone who sows generously will reap generously as well.7 Each one should give as much as he has...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 8:1-9 1 Next, brothers, we will tell you of the grace of God which has been granted to the churches of Macedonia,2 and how, throughout continual ordeals of hardship, their unfailing joy and their intense poverty have overflowed in a...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 19, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 6:1-10 1 As his fellow-workers, we urge you not to let your acceptance of his grace come to nothing.2 As he said, 'At the time of my favour I have answered you; on the day of salvation I have helped you'; well, now is the real time of...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 18, 2023
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Daily Readings for Saturday, June 17, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-21 14 For the love of Christ overwhelms us when we consider that if one man died for all, then all have died;15 his purpose in dying for all humanity was that those who live should live not any more for themselves, but for him who...
Daily Readings for Friday, June 16, 2023
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 7:6-11 6 For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God; of all the peoples on earth, you have been chosen by Yahweh your God to be his own people.7 'Yahweh set his heart on you and chose you not because you were the most numerous of all...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 15, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 3:15-4:1, 3-6 15 As it is, to this day, whenever Moses is read, their hearts are covered with a veil,16 and this veil will not be taken away till they turn to the Lord.17 Now this Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is,...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 3:4-11 4 Such is the confidence we have through Christ in facing God;5 it is not that we are so competent that we can claim any credit for ourselves; all our competence comes from God.6 He has given us the competence to be ministers of a...