Current Events and News
From the Diocese
No Results Found
The page you requested could not be found. Try refining your search, or use the navigation above to locate the post.
Saint of the Day
St. Callistus I: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 14, 2020
Imagine that your biography was written by an enemy of yours. And that its information was all anyone would have not only for the rest of your life but for centuries to come. You would never be able to refute it -- and even if you couldno one would believe you because...
St. Edward the Confessor: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Edward the Confessor was the son of King Ethelred III and his Norman wife, Emma, daughter of Duke Richard I of Normandy. He was born at Islip, England, and sent to Normandy with his mother in the year 1013 when the Danes under Sweyn and his son Canute invaded England....
St. Wilfrid: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 12, 2020
Born in Northumberland in 634, St. Wilfrid was educated at Lindesfarne and then spent some time in Lyons and Rome. Returning to England, he was elected abbot of Ripon in 658 and introduced the Roman rules and practices in opposition to the celtic ways of northern...
St. John XXIII: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 11, 2020
The man who would be Pope John XXIII was born in the small village of Sotto il Monte in Italy, on November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to poor parents who made their living by sharecropping. Named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the baby would...
St. Francis Borgia: Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 10, 2020
Francis was a young nobleman at the court of the King of Spain. He became a Duke when he was only thirty-three and lived a happy, peaceful life with his wife Eleanor and their eight children. But unlike so many other powerful nobles, Francis was a perfect Christian...
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 09, 2020
The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth century in the writings of Saint Gregory of Tours. Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three. Born and raised in Italy, he was sent as a...
St. Pelagia: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 08, 2020
Pelagia, more often called Margaret, on account of the magnificence of the pearls for which she had so often sold herself, was an actress of Antioch, equally celebrated for her beauty, her wealth and the disorder ofher life. During a synod at Antioch, she passed...
St. Artaldus: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Artaldus (also called Arthaud) was born in the castle of Sothonod in Savoy. At the age of eighteen, he went to the court of Duke Amadeus III, but a year or two after, he became a Carthusian at Portes. After many years, being a priest and an experienced and holy...
St. Bruno: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family. He studied at the Cathedral school at Rheims, and on his return to Cologne about 1055, was ordained and became a Canon at St. Cunibert's. He returned to Rheims in 1056 as professor of theology, became head...
St. Faustina Kowalska: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 05, 2020
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born as Helena Kowalska, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of LĂłdz in Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of 10 children to a poor and religious family. Faustina first felt a calling to the...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 13, 2020
Daily Reading for Tuesday October 13, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 5:1-6Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:41, 43, 44, 45, 47, 48Gospel, Luke 11:37-41 Reading 1, Galatians 5:1-6 1 Christ set us free, so that we should remain free. Stand firm, then, and do not let yourselves...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 12, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday October 12, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31--5:1Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 113:1-2, 3-4, 5, 6-7Gospel, Luke 11:29-32 Reading 1, Galatians 4:22-24, 26-27, 31--5:1 22 Scripture says that Abraham had two sons, one by the slave girl...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 11, 2020
Daily Reading for Sunday October 11, 2020 Reading 1, Isaiah 25:6-10Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 23:1-3, 3-4, 5, 6Gospel, Matthew 22:1-14Reading 2, Philippians 4:12-14, 19-20 Hi readers, it seems you use Catholic Online a lot; that's great! It's a little awkward to ask,...
Daily Readings for Saturday, October 10, 2020
Daily Reading for Saturday October 10, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 3:22-29Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 105:2-3, 4-5, 6-7Gospel, Luke 11:27-28 Reading 1, Galatians 3:22-29 22 As it is, scripture makes no exception when it says that sin is master everywhere; so the promise...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 09, 2020
Daily Reading for Friday October 9, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 3:7-14Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 111:1-2, 3-4, 5-6Gospel, Luke 11:15-26 Reading 1, Galatians 3:7-14 7 Be sure, then, that it is people of faith who are the children of Abraham.8 And it was because scripture...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 08, 2020
Daily Reading for Thursday October 8, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 3:1-5Responsorial Psalm, Luke 1:69-70, 71-72, 73-75Gospel, Luke 11:5-13 Reading 1, Galatians 3:1-5 1 You stupid people in Galatia! After you have had a clear picture of Jesus Christ crucified, right in...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 07, 2020
Daily Reading for Wednesday October 7, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 117:1, 2Gospel, Luke 11:1-4 Reading 1, Galatians 2:1-2, 7-14 1 It was not until fourteen years had gone by that I travelled up to Jerusalem again, with Barnabas, and...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 06, 2020
Reading 1, Galatians 1:13-24 13 You have surely heard how I lived in the past, within Judaism, and how there was simply no limit to the way I persecuted the Church of God in my attempts to destroy it;14 and how, in Judaism, I outstripped most of my Jewish...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 05, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday October 5, 2020 Reading 1, Galatians 1:6-12Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 111:1-2, 7-8, 9, 10Gospel, Luke 10:25-37 Reading 1, Galatians 1:6-12 6 I am astonished that you are so promptly turning away from the one who called you in the grace of...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 04, 2020
Daily Reading for Sunday October 4, 2020 Reading 1, Isaiah 5:1-7Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 80:9, 12, 13-14, 15-16, 19-20Gospel, Matthew 21:33-43Reading 2, Philippians 4:6-9 Reading 1, Isaiah 5:1-7 1 Let me sing my beloved the song of my friend for his vineyard. My...