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Saint of the Day
Sts. Joachim and Anne: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 26, 2025
Saints Joachim (sometimes spelled "Joaquin," pronounced "wal-keem") and Anne, are the parents of the Virgin Mary. There are no mentions of them in the Bible or Gospels, what we know comes from Catholic legend and the Gospel of James, which is an unsanctioned,...
St. James the Greater: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 25, 2025
Nothing is known of St. James the Greater's early life, though it has been established that he is the son of Zebedee and Salome and brother of John the disciple. The title "the Greater" was added to St. James' name to help distinguish him from the Apostle James "the...
St. John Boste: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 24, 2025
One of the Forty Martyrs of England and Wales. He was born at Dufton, at Westmoreland, England, and studied at Oxford. Becoming a Catholic in 1576, he went to Reims and received ordination in 1581. John went back to England where he worked in the northern parts of the...
St. Bridget of Sweden: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Saint Birgitta was the daughter of Uppland�s Lagman, Birger Petersson and his wife, Ingeborg, who was a member of the same clan as the reigning family. Birgitta�s family was pious; her father went to confession every Friday and made long and arduous...
St. Mary Magdalene: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
St. Mary Magdalene is one of the greatest saints of the Bible and a legendary example of God's mercy and grace. The precise dates of her birth and death are unknown, but we do know she was present with Christ during his public ministry, death and resurrection. She is...
St. Lawrence of Brindisi: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 21, 2025
Caesare de Rossi was born at Brandisi, kingdom of Naples, on July 22nd. He was educated by the conventual Franciscans there and by his uncle at St. Mark's in Venice. When sixteen, he joined the Capuchins at Verona, taking the name Lawrence. He pursued his higher...
St. Margaret of Antioch: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 20, 2025
Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. Also known as Marina, she was converted to Christianity, whereupon she was driven from home by her father. She became a...
St. Arsenius the Great: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 19, 2025
Confessor and hermit on the Nile. Arsenius, who was born in Rome in 354, was the tutor of the children of Emperors Theodosius I the Great, Arcadius, and Honorius. At that time, Arsenius was a Roman deacon recommended for the office by Pope St. Damasus. lie served at...
St. Frederick: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 18, 2025
St. Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, Martyr Frederick was trained in piety and sacred learning among the clergy of the Church of Utrecht. Being ordained priest, he was charged by Bishop Ricfried with the care of instructing converts, and about 825 he was chosen to...
Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, July 25, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 4:7-15 7 But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.8 We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;9 we are...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 24, 2025
Daily Reading for Thursday July 24, 2025 Reading 1, Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56Gospel, Matthew 13:10-17 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20 1 Three months to...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 23, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 16:1-5, 9-15 1 Setting out from Elim, the whole community of Israelites entered the desert of Sin, lying between Elim and Sinai -- on the fifteenth day of the second month after they had left Egypt.2 And the whole community of Israelites began...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-17 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 Monday, July 21, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 14:5-18 5 When Pharaoh king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, he and his officials changed their attitude towards the people. 'What have we done,' they said, 'allowing Israel to leave our service?'6 So Pharaoh had his chariot harnessed and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 20, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 18:1-10 1 Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day.2 He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 19, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 12:37-42 37 The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march-men, that is, not counting their families.38 A mixed crowd of people went with them, and flocks and herds, quantities of livestock.39 And with the dough...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 18, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 11:10-12:14 10 Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.1 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,2 'This month must be the first of all the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 3:11-20 11 Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?'12 'I shall be with you,' God said, 'and this is the sign by which you will know that I was the one who sent you. After you have led the people out of...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12 1 Moses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle...