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Saint of the Day
St. John Baptist de Rossi: Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 23, 2020
St. John Baptist de de Rossi, also known as Giovanni Battista de' Rossi, was born on February 22, 1698 in Voltaggio, Italy. He was the fourth child of Charles de Rossi and Frances Anfossi, known to be a holy and faith filled couple. Though John's family was not...
St. Rita: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 22, 2020
Saint Rita was born Margherita Lotti in Roccaporena, Italy in 1381. The day after her baptism, Rita was surrounded by a swarm of white bees, which went in and out of her infant mouth without hurting her. Rather than being alarmed, her family believed she was marked to...
St. Eugene de Mazenod: Saint of the Day for Thursday, May 21, 2020
Eugene de Mazenod was born on August 1, 1782, at Aix-en-Provence in France. Early in life he experienced the upheaval of the French Revolution. None the less, he entered the seminary, and following ordination he returned to labor in Aix-en-Provence. That area had...
St. Bernardine of Siena: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, May 20, 2020
In the year 1400, a young man came to the door of the largest hospital in Siena. A plague was raging through the city so horrible that as many as twenty people died each day just in the hospital alone. And many of the people who died were those who were needed to tend...
St. Celestine: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 19, 2020
When the father of this Italian saint died, his good mother brought up her twelve children well, even though they were very poor. "Oh, if I could only have the joy of seeing one of you become a saint!" she use to say. Once when she asked as usual, "which one of you is...
St. Pope John I: Saint of the Day for Monday, May 18, 2020
St. John I, Pope and Martyr (Feast day - May 18) A native of Tuscany in Italy, John was elected Pope while he was still an archdeacon upon the death of Pope Hormisdas in 523. At that time, the ruler of Italy was Theodoric the Goth who subscribed to the Arian brand of...
St. Paschal Baylon: Saint of the Day for Sunday, May 17, 2020
Franciscan lay brother and mystic. Born to a peasant family at Torre Hermosa, in Aragon, on Whitsunday, he was christened Pascua in honor of the feast. According to accounts of his early life, Paschal labored as a shepherd for his father, performed miracles, and was...
St. Simon Stock: Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 16, 2020
Although little is known about Simon Stock's early life, legend has it that the name Stock, meaning "tree trunk," derives from the fact that, beginning at age twelve, he lived as a hermit in a hollow tree trunk of an oak tree. It is also believed that, as a young man,...
St. Dymphna: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 15, 2020
Dymphna was born in Ireland sometime in the seventh century to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. When she was fourteen, she consecrated herself to Christ and took a vow of chastity. Soon afterward, her mother died and her father - who had loved his wife...
St. Matthias: Saint of the Day for Thursday, May 14, 2020
How does one qualify to be an apostle? The first act of the apostles after the Ascension of Jesus was to find a replacement for Judas. With all the questions, doubts, and dangers facing them, they chose to focus their attention on finding a twelfth apostle. Why was...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 10, 2020
Reading 1, First Kings 18:20-39 20 Ahab called all Israel together and assembled the prophets on Mount Carmel. 21 Elijah stepped out in front of all the people. 'How long', he said, 'do you mean to hobble first on one leg then on the other? If Yahweh is God, follow...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 09, 2020
Reading 1, First Kings 17:7-16 7 But after a while the stream dried up, for the country had had no rain. 8 And then the word of Yahweh came to him, 9 'Up and go to Zarephath in Sidonia, and stay there. I have ordered a widow there to give you food.' 10 So he went off...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 08, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday June 8, 2020 Reading 1, First Kings 17:1-7Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 121:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 7-8Gospel, Matthew 5:1-12 Reading 1, First Kings 17:1-7 1 Elijah the Tishbite, of Tishbe in Gilead, said to Ahab, 'By the life of Yahweh, God of Israel,...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 07, 2020
Daily Reading for Sunday June 7, 2020 Reading 1, Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56Gospel, John 3:16-18Reading 2, Second Corinthians 13:11-13 Reading 1, Exodus 34:4-6, 8-9 4 So he cut two tablets of stone like the first and, with the two...
Daily Readings for Saturday, June 06, 2020
Daily Reading for Saturday June 6, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 71:8-9, 14-15, 16-17, 22Gospel, Mark 12:38-44 Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8 1 Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge...
Daily Readings for Friday, June 05, 2020
Daily Reading for Friday June 5, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 3:10-17Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:157, 160, 161, 165, 166, 168Gospel, Mark 12:35-37 Reading 1, Second Timothy 3:10-17 10 You, though, have followed my teaching, my way of life, my aims, my faith, my...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 04, 2020
Daily Reading for Thursday June 4, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 2:8-15Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 25:4-5, 8-9, 10, 14Gospel, Mark 12:28-34 Reading 1, Second Timothy 2:8-15 8 Remember the gospel that I carry, 'Jesus Christ risen from the dead, sprung from the race of...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 03, 2020
Daily Reading for Wednesday June 3, 2020 Reading 1, Second Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 123:1-2, 2Gospel, Mark 12:18-27 Reading 1, Second Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12 1 From Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God in accordance with his promise...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 02, 2020
Daily Reading for Tuesday June 2, 2020 Reading 1, Second Peter 3:12-15, 17-18Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 90:2, 3-4, 10, 14, 16Gospel, Mark 12:13-17 Reading 1, Second Peter 3:12-15, 17-18 12 while you wait for the Day of God to come, and try to hasten its coming: on...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 01, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday June 1, 2020 Reading 1, Genesis 3: 9-15, 20Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 87: 1-2, 3, 5, 6-7Gospel, John 19: 25-34 Reading 1, Genesis 3: 9-15, 20 9 But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked. 10 'I heard the sound of you in the...