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Saint of the Day
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 12, 2025
Marguerite had survived many threats in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had lived through Iroquois attacks, a fire that destroyed her small village, plagues on the ships that she took back and forth to France, but nothing threatened her...
St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 11, 2025
Abbot and founder. Born at Garissus, Cappadocia (modern Turkey), in 423, he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and after meeting with the famed St. Simeon Stylites, he entered a monastery. Later, he was named the head of a church between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but...
St. William of Bourges: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 10, 2025
William Berruyer, of the illustrious family of the ancient counts of Nevers, was educated by Peter the hermit, archdeacon of Soissons, his uncle by the mother's side. He learned from his infancy to despise the folly and emptiness of the riches and grandeur of the...
St. Adrian, Abbot: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 09, 2025
Born in Africa, Adrian became abbot of the monastery at Nerida, near Naples. He declined an appointment as archbishop of Canterbury, but accompanied St. Theodore to England when the latter was appointed Archbishop. Theodore appointed him Abbot of SS. Peter and Paul...
St. Thorfinn: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 08, 2025
In the year 1285, there died in the Cistercian monastery at TerDoest, near Bruges, a Norwegian bishop named Thorfinn. He had never attracted particular attention and was soon forgotten. But over fifty years later, in the course of some building operations, his tomb in...
St. Raymond of Pennafort: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 07, 2025
St. Raymond of Pennafort, Patron Saint of Canonists (Feast day - January 7) Born in Spain, St. Raymond was a relative of the King of Aragon. From childhood he had a tender love and devotion to the Blessed Mother. He finished his studies at an early age, and became a...
St. Andre Bessette: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 06, 2025
When Alfred Bessette came to the Holy Cross Brothers in 1870, he carried with him a note from his pastor saying, "I am sending you a saint." The Brothers found that difficult to believe. Chronic stomach pains had made it impossible for Alfred to hold a job very long...
St. John Neumann: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 05, 2025
This American saint was born in Bohemia in 1811. He was looking forward to being ordained in 1835 when the bishop decided there would be no more ordinations. It is difficult for us to imagine now, but Bohemia was overstocked with priests. John wrote to bishops all...
St. Elizabeth Ann Seton: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 04, 2025
Elizabeth Ann Bayley Seton was the first native born American to be canonized by the Catholic Church. Born two years before the American Revolution, Elizabeth grew up in the upper class of New York society. She was a prolific reader, and read everything from the Bible...
St. Genevieve: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 03, 2025
St. Genevieve was a fair and courageous peasant girl who was born around 422 in Nanterre, France, to a man named Severus and a woman named Gerontia. When Genevieve was only seven-years-old, St. Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre visited Nanterre on his way to Britain. While...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, February 07, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 13:1-8 1 Continue to love each other like brothers,2 and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it.3 Keep in mind those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them;...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 06, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24 18 What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or gloom or total darkness, or a storm;19 or trumpet-blast or the sound of a voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15 4 In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.5 Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, do not scorn correction from the Lord, do not resent his...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 04, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:1-4 1 With so many witnesses in a great cloud all around us, we too, then, should throw off everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of us.2 Let us keep our...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 03, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 11:32-40 32 What more shall I say? There is not time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel and the prophets.33 These were men who through faith conquered kingdoms, did what was upright and earned the...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 02, 2025
Reading 1, Malachi 3:1-4 1 'Look, I shall send my messenger to clear a way before me. And suddenly the Lord whom you seek will come to his Temple; yes, the angel of the covenant, for whom you long, is on his way, says Yahweh Sabaoth.2 Who will be able to resist the...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 01, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 11:1-2, 8-19 1 Only faith can guarantee the blessings that we hope for, or prove the existence of realities that are unseen.2 It is for their faith that our ancestors are acknowledged.8 It was by faith that Abraham obeyed the call to set out for a...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 31, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 10:32-39 32 Remember the great challenge of the sufferings that you had to meet after you received the light, in earlier days;33 sometimes by being yourselves publicly exposed to humiliations and violence, and sometimes as associates of others who...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 30, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 10:19-25 19 We have then, brothers, complete confidence through the blood of Jesus in entering the sanctuary,20 by a new way which he has opened for us, a living opening through the curtain, that is to say, his flesh.21 And we have the high priest...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 29, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 10:11-18 11 Every priest stands at his duties every day, offering over and over again the same sacrifices which are quite incapable of taking away sins.12 He, on the other hand, has offered one single sacrifice for sins, and then taken his seat for...