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Saint of the Day
St. John of Kanty: Saint of the Day for Monday, December 23, 2024
The people of Olkusz in Bohemia in 1431 had every reason to be suspicious of their new pastor. They knew what a Cracow professor would think of their small rural town. But even more insulting, their town was once again being used as a dumping ground for a priest who...
St. Chaeromon: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 22, 2024
Bishop of Nilopolis, in Egypt. When the persecution was instituted by Emperor Trajanus Decius, Chaeromon Was quite elderly. He and several companions fled into the Arabian desert and were never seen again. The bishop and his companions are listed as martyrs. Excellent...
St. Peter Canisius: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 21, 2024
In 1565, the Vatican was looking for a secret agent. It was shortly after the Council of Trent and the pope wanted to get the decrees of the Council to all the European bishops. What would be a simple errand in our day, was a dangerous assignment in the sixteenth...
St. Dominic of Silos: Saint of the Day for Friday, December 20, 2024
Benedictine abbot and defender of the faith. Born in Canas, Navarre, Spain, circa 1000, he entered the Benedictines at San Millan de Ia Cogolla. King Garcia III of Navarre challenged him when he became abbot of the monastery, and Dominic refused to surrender part of...
St. Nemesius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 19, 2024
Martyr of Egypt. He was burned alive in Alexandria, Egypt, during the persecutions under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Nemesius was arrested and scourged and then burned to death. Like Christ, he was executed between two criminals. Excellent content provided by...
St. Rufus: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Rufus and Zosimus were citizens of Antioch (or perhaps Philippi) who were brought to Rome with St. Ignatius of Antioch during the reign of Emperor Trajan. They were condemned to death for their Christianity and thrown to wild beasts in the arena two days before the...
St. Olympias: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, December 17, 2024
Olympias born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family. She was orphaned when a child and was given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. She married Nebridius, also a prefect, was widowed soon after, refused several offers of marriage,...
St. Ado of Vienne: Saint of the Day for Monday, December 16, 2024
An archbishop and scholar, Ado was born in Sens and educated at the Benedictine abbey of Ferrieres. Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impressed with the obvious holiness of the young man. A noble by birth, Ado renounced...
St. Mary Di Rosa: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 15, 2024
Saint Mary (Paula) Di Rosa December 15 The pounding on the barricaded door of the military hospital sent every heart thudding in terror. In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in 1848, the wounded, sick, and those who cared for them knew what that pounding meant....
St. John of the Cross: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 14, 2024
Saint John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542. His father was employed by wealthy family members as an accountant, but they disowned him when he married a poor woman from the lower class. As a result of his familyÂ?s...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 18, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 4:12-16 12 The word of God is something alive and active: it cuts more incisively than any two-edged sword: it can seek out the place where soul is divided from spirit, or joints from marrow; it can pass judgement on secret emotions and thoughts.13...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 17, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 4:1-5, 11 1 Let us beware, then: since the promise never lapses, none of you must think that he has come too late for the promise of entering his place of rest.2 We received the gospel exactly as they did; but hearing the message did them no good...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 16, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 3:7-14 7 That is why, as the Holy Spirit says: If only you would listen to him today!8 Do not harden your hearts, as at the rebellion, as at the time of testing in the desert,9 when your ancestors challenged me, and put me to the test, and saw what...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 2:14-18 14 Since all the children share the same human nature, he too shared equally in it, so that by his death he could set aside him who held the power of death, namely the devil,15 and set free all those who had been held in slavery all their...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 2:5-12 5 It was not under angels that he put the world to come, about which we are speaking.6 Someone witnesses to this somewhere with the words: What are human beings that you spare a thought for them, a child of Adam that you care for him?7 For a...
Daily Readings for Monday, January 13, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 1:1-6 1 At many moments in the past and by many means, God spoke to our ancestors through the prophets; but2 in our time, the final days, he has spoken to us in the person of his Son, whom he appointed heir of all things and through whom he made the...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 12, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday January 12, 2025 Reading 1, Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 29:1-2, 3-4, 3, 9-10Gospel, Luke 3:15-16, 21-22Reading 2, Acts 10:34-38 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Isaiah 42:1-4, 6-7 1 Here...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 11, 2025
Reading 1, First John 5:14-21 14 Our fearlessness towards him consists in this, that if we ask anything in accordance with his will he hears us.15 And if we know that he listens to whatever we ask him, we know that we already possess whatever we have asked of him.16...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 10, 2025
Reading 1, First John 5:5-13 5 Who can overcome the world but the one who believes that Jesus is the Son of God?6 He it is who came by water and blood, Jesus Christ, not with water alone but with water and blood, and it is the Spirit that bears witness, for the Spirit...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 09, 2025
Reading 1, First John 4:19-5:4 19 Let us love, then, because he first loved us.20 Anyone who says 'I love God' and hates his brother, is a liar, since whoever does not love the brother whom he can see cannot love God whom he has not seen.21 Indeed this is the...