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Saint of the Day
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 09, 2025
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 Wednesday, October 08, 2025
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 Tuesday, October 07, 2025
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 Monday, October 06, 2025
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 Sunday, October 05, 2025
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born as Helena Kowalska, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of LĂ?Âłdz 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...
St. Francis of Assisi: Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 04, 2025
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or apologetic because he'd been gone, Pietro was furious because she'd...
St. Ewald & Ewald: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 03, 2025
Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called "the Fair" and one called "the Dark", companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia, Netherlands. They were martyred...
St. Leger: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 02, 2025
Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent St....
St. Therese of Lisieux: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Generations of Catholics have admired this young saint, called her the "Little Flower", and found in her short life more inspiration for their own lives than in volumes by theologians. Yet Therese died when she was 24, after having lived as cloistered Carmelite for...
St. Jerome: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, September 30, 2025
Before he was known as Saint Jerome, he was named Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus. He was born around 342 AD, in Stridon, Dalmatia. Today, the town, which ceased to exist in Jerome�s time, would likely be in Croatia or Slovenia. The young Jerome was educated by...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, October 10, 2025
Reading 1, Joel 1:13-15; 2:1-2 13 Priests, put on sackcloth and lament! You ministers of the altar, wail! Come here, lie in sackcloth all night long, you ministers of my God! For the Temple of your God has been deprived of cereal offering and libation.14 Order a fast,...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 09, 2025
Reading 1, Malachi 3:13-20 13 'You have said harsh things about me, says Yahweh. And yet you say, "What have we said against you?"14 You have said, "It is useless to serve God; what is the good of keeping his commands or of walking mournfully before Yahweh Sabaoth?15...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 08, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 4:1-11 1 This made Jonah very indignant; he fell into a rage.2 He prayed to Yahweh and said, 'Please, Yahweh, isn't this what I said would happen when I was still in my own country? That was why I first tried to flee to Tarshish, since I knew you were...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 07, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.'3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 06, 2025
Reading 1, Jonah 1:1-2:1, 11 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah son of Amittai:2 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and proclaim to them that their wickedness has forced itself upon me.'3 Jonah set about running away from Yahweh, and going to...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 05, 2025
Reading 1, Habakkuk 1:2-3,2:2-4 2 How long, Yahweh, am I to cry for help while you will not listen; to cry, 'Violence!' in your ear while you will not save?3 Why do you make me see wrong-doing, why do you countenance oppression? Plundering and violence confront me,...
Daily Readings for Saturday, October 04, 2025
Reading 1, Baruch 4:5-12, 27-29 5 Take courage, my people, memorial of Israel!6 You were sold to the nations, but not for extermination. You provoked God; and so were delivered to your enemies,7 since you had angered your Creator by offering sacrifices to demons, and...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 03, 2025
Reading 1, Baruch 1:15-22 15 You must say: Saving justice is the Lord's, we have only the look of shame we bear, as is the case today for the people of Judah and the inhabitants of Jerusalem,16 for our kings and princes, our priests, our prophets, and for our...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 02, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 23:20-23 20 'Look, I am sending an angel to precede you, to guard you as you go and bring you to the place that I have prepared.21 Revere him and obey what he says. Do not defy him: he will not forgive any wrong-doing on your part, for my name is in...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 01, 2025
Reading 1, Nehemiah 2:1-8 1 In the month of Nisan, in the twentieth year of King Artaxerxes, since I was in charge of the wine, I took the wine and offered it to the king. Now, he had never seen me looking depressed before.2 So the king said to me, 'Why are you...