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Saint of the Day
St. Charles Borromeo: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, November 04, 2025
Saint Charles Borromeo was born on October 2, 1538 at the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore near Milan. His father was the Count of Arona and his mother a member of the House of Medici. He was the third of six children born to the couple. At the age of 12, the young...
St. Martin de Porres: Saint of the Day for Monday, November 03, 2025
St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. Martin was the illegitimate son to a Spanish gentlemen and a freed slave from Panama, of African or possibly Native American descent. At a young age, Martin's father abandoned him, his mother and his...
St. Victorinus of Pettau: Saint of the Day for Sunday, November 02, 2025
Bishop and martyr. Originally a Greek, he became bishop of Pettau, in Pannonia (later Styria, Austria). He was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). Victorinus was also the author of several biblical cornrnentaries, although he may have...
St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa: Saint of the Day for Saturday, November 01, 2025
Bishop and martyr of Vietnam. A native of Ellorio, Spain, he entered the Dominican Order and was sent to the Philippines. From there he went to Vietnam in 1858, serving as a vicar apostolic and titular bishop until betrayed by an apostate. He was martyred by beheading...
St. Wolfgang: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 31, 2025
Wolfgang (d. 994) + Bishop and reformer. Born in Swabia, Germany, he studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the Benedictines at Einsiedeln (964) and was appointed head...
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 30, 2025
Confessor and Jay brother, also called Alonso. He was born in Segovia, Spain, on July 25, 1532, the son of a wealthy merchant, and was prepared for First Communion by Blessed Peter Favre, a friend of Alphonsus' father. While studying with the Jesuits at Alcala,...
St. Narcissus: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 29, 2025
St. Narcissus was born towards the end of the first century in AD 99. He was almost 80-years-old when he was placed at the head of the church of Jerusalem, making him the 30th bishop of that see. In 195, he and Theophilus, bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, presided...
St. Jude Thaddaeus: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 28, 2025
St. Jude, known as Thaddaeus, was a brother of St. James the Less, and a relative of Our Saviour. He was one of the 12 Apostles of Jesus and his attribute is a club. Images of St. Jude often include a flame around his head, which represent his presence at Pentecost,...
St. Frumentius: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 27, 2025
Called "Abuna" or "the faĂ?Âther' of Ethiopia, sent to that land by St. Athanasius. Frumentius was born in Tyre, Lebanon. While on a voyage in the Red Sea with St. Aedesius, possibly his brother, only Frumentius and Aedesius survived the shipwreck. Taken to the...
St. Bean: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 26, 2025
On December 16, there is named in the Roman Martyrology and in certain Irish calendars a Saint Bean in Ireland, who had been confused with the St. Bean whose feast is still observed in the Scottish diocese of Aberdeen, but on October 26, as founder of the bishopric of...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, November 02, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday November 2, 2025 Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 27:1, 4, 7, 8, 9, 13-14Gospel, Matthew 25:31-46Reading 2, Romans 6:3-9 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9 1 But the souls of...
Daily Readings for Saturday, November 01, 2025
Reading 1, Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 2 Then I saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea,3 'Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 31, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 9:1-5 1 This is the truth and I am speaking in Christ, without pretence, as my conscience testifies for me in the Holy Spirit;2 there is great sorrow and unremitting agony in my heart:3 I could pray that I myself might be accursed and cut off from...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 30, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 8:31-39 31 After saying this, what can we add? If God is for us, who can be against us?32 Since he did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for the sake of all of us, then can we not expect that with him he will freely give us all his gifts?33 Who...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 29, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 8:26-30 26 And as well as this, the Spirit too comes to help us in our weakness, for, when we do not know how to pray properly, then the Spirit personally makes our petitions for us in groans that cannot be put into words;27 and he who can see into...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 28, 2025
Reading 1, Ephesians 2:19-22 19 So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors; you are fellow-citizens with the holy people of God and part of God's household.20 You are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 27, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 8:12-17 12 So then, my brothers, we have no obligation to human nature to be dominated by it.13 If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the habits originating in the body, you will have life.14 All who...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 26, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday October 26, 2025 Reading 1, Sirach 35:12-14, 16-18Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:2-3, 17-18, 19, 23Gospel, Luke 18:9-14Reading 2, Second Timothy 4:6-8, 16-18 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Sirach...
Daily Readings for Saturday, October 25, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 8:1-11 1 Thus, condemnation will never come to those who are in Christ Jesus,2 because the law of the Spirit which gives life in Christ Jesus has set you free from the law of sin and death.3 What the Law could not do because of the weakness of human...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 24, 2025
Reading 1, Romans 7:18-25 18 And really, I know of nothing good living in me -- in my natural self, that is -- for though the will to do what is good is in me, the power to do it is not:19 the good thing I want to do, I never do; the evil thing which I do not want --...