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Saint of the Day
St. Margaret of Cortona: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 22, 2025
Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret's mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped with a youth...
St. Severian: Saint of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
St. Wulfric: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
Bl. Alvarez of Corova: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Alvarez was born in either Lisbon, Portugal, or Cordova, Spain. He entered the Dominican convent at Cordova in 1368. He became known for his preaching prowess in Spain and Italy, was confessor and adviser of Queen Catherine, John of Gaunt's daughter, and tutor of King...
St. Simon: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
In St. Matthew's Gospel, we read of St. Simon or Simeon who is described as one of our Lord's brethren or kinsmen. His father was Cleophas, St. Joseph's brother, and his mother, according to some writers, was our Lady's sister. He would therefore be our Lord's first...
St. Alexis Falconieri: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 17, 2025
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 Sunday, February 16, 2025
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. Vincent Pallotti: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 22, 2025
St. Vincent Pallotti, Priest (Feast - January 22) Born in Rome in 1795, St. Vincent became a priest and dedicated himself completely to God and cared for souls. He dreamed of gaining for Christ all non-Catholics, especially the Mohammedans. To this end he inaugurated...
St. Agnes: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 21, 2025
St. Agnes of Rome was born in 291 AD and raised in a Christian family. Agnes was very beautiful and belonged to a wealthy family. Her hand in marriage was highly sought after, and she had many high ranking men chasing after her. However, Agnes made a promise to God...
St. Fabian: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 20, 2025
Eusebius, born just a few years after Fabian's death, tells us how Fabian came to Rome after Pope Anteros died in 236. A layperson, and not a very important one, he may have come for the same reason many still come to Rome today during a papal election: concern for...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Monday, February 24, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 1:1-10 1 All wisdom comes from the Lord, she is with him for ever. 2 The sands of the sea, the drops of rain, the days of eternity -- who can count them?3 The height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the depth of the abyss -- who can explore...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 23, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday February 23, 2025 Reading 1, First Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13Gospel, Luke 6:27-38Reading 2, First Corinthians 15:45-49 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 22, 2025
Reading 1, First Peter 5:1-4 1 I urge the elders among you, as a fellow-elder myself and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and as one who is to have a share in the glory that is to be revealed:2 give a shepherd's care to the flock of God that is entrusted to you:...
Daily Readings for Friday, February 21, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 11:1-9 1 The whole world spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary.2 Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled.3 They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 20, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 9:1-13 1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Breed, multiply and fill the earth.2 Be the terror and the dread of all the animals on land and all the birds of heaven, of everything that moves on land and all the fish of the sea; they are...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark7 and released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on earth.8 He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 5 Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.6 Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.7 And Yahweh said, 'I shall...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 17, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 4:1-15, 25 1 The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. 'I have acquired a man with the help of Yahweh,' she said.2 She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 16, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday February 16, 2025 Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6Gospel, Luke 6:17, 20-26Reading 2, First Corinthians 15:12, 16-20 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-8 5...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 15, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 3:9-24 9 But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked.10 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'11 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from...