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Saint of the Day
St. John the Baptist: Saint of the Day for Saturday, June 24, 2023
John the Baptist was a contemporary of Christ who was known for evangelization and his baptizing of Jesus Christ. John the Baptist was born through the intercession of God to Zachariah and Elizabeth, who was otherwise too old to bear children. According to scriptures,...
St. Joseph Cafasso: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 23, 2023
Joseph Cafasso was born at Castelnuovo d'Asti in the Piedmont, Italy, of peasant parents. He studied at the seminary at Turin, and was ordained in 1833. He continued his theological studies at the seminary and university at Turin and then at the Institute of St....
St. Thomas More: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 22, 2023
Thomas More was born in London on February 7, 1478. His father, Sir John More, was a lawyer and judge who rose to prominence during the reign of Edward IV. His connections and wealth would help his son, Thomas, rise in station as a young man. Thomas' mother was Agnes...
St. Aloysius Gonzaga: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 21, 2023
St. Aloysius was born in Castiglione, Italy. The first words St. Aloysius spoke were the Holy Names of Jesus and Mary. He was destined for the military by his father (who was in service to Philip II), but by the age of 9 Aloysius had decided on a religious life, and...
St. Vincent Kaun: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Martyr of Japan. A native of Korea, he was brought to Japan in 1591 as a prisoner of war and was subsequently converted to Christianity. Entering the Jesuits, he studied at the Jesuit seminary of Arima and worked for three decades as a catechist in both Japan and...
St. Romuald: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 19, 2023
St. Romuald was born at Ravenna about the year 956. In spite of an infinite desire for virtue and sanctity, his early life was wasted in the service of the world and its pleasures. Then one day, obliged by his father, Sergius, to be present at a duel fought by him, he...
St. Gregory Barbarigo: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 18, 2023
St. Gregory Barbarigo was born in 1625, of a very old and distinguished Venetian family. A brilliant student, he embraced a diplomatic career and accompanied the Venetian Ambassador, Contarini, to the Congress of Munster in 1648. Then he became a priest and was soon...
St. Emily de Vialar: Saint of the Day for Saturday, June 17, 2023
St. Emily de Vialar, Virgin, Foundress of the Sisters of St. Joseph "of the Apparition" Anne Marguerite Adelaide Emily de Vialar was the eldest child and only daughter of Baron James Augustine de Vialar and his wife Antoinette, daughter of that Baron de Portal who was...
St. John Francis Regis: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 16, 2023
St. John Francis Regis Confessor of the Society of Jesus June 16 True virtue, or Christian perfection, consists not in great or shining actions, but resides in the heart, and appears to great edification, though in the usual train of common and religious duties...
St. Germaine Cousin: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 15, 2023
When Hortense decided to marry Laurent Cousin in Pibrac, France, it was not out of love for his infant daughter. Germaine was everything Hortense despised. Weak and ill, the girl had also been born with a right hand that was deformed and paralyzed. Hortense replaced...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, June 23, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 11:18, 21-30 18 So many people boast on merely human grounds that I shall too.21 I say it to your shame; perhaps we have been too weak. Whatever bold claims anyone makes -- now I am talking as a fool -- I can make them too.22 Are they...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 22, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 11:1-11 1 I wish you would put up with a little foolishness from me -- not that you don't do this already.2 The jealousy that I feel for you is, you see, God's own jealousy: I gave you all in marriage to a single husband, a virgin pure...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 21, 2023
FREE Catholic Classes Pick a class, you can learn anything Reading 1, Second Corinthians 9:6-11 6 But remember: anyone who sows sparsely will reap sparsely as well -- and anyone who sows generously will reap generously as well.7 Each one should give as much as he has...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 20, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 8:1-9 1 Next, brothers, we will tell you of the grace of God which has been granted to the churches of Macedonia,2 and how, throughout continual ordeals of hardship, their unfailing joy and their intense poverty have overflowed in a...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 19, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 6:1-10 1 As his fellow-workers, we urge you not to let your acceptance of his grace come to nothing.2 As he said, 'At the time of my favour I have answered you; on the day of salvation I have helped you'; well, now is the real time of...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 18, 2023
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Daily Readings for Saturday, June 17, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-21 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 Friday, June 16, 2023
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 7:6-11 6 For you are a people consecrated to Yahweh your God; of all the peoples on earth, you have been chosen by Yahweh your God to be his own people.7 'Yahweh set his heart on you and chose you not because you were the most numerous of all...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 15, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 3:15-4:1, 3-6 15 As it is, to this day, whenever Moses is read, their hearts are covered with a veil,16 and this veil will not be taken away till they turn to the Lord.17 Now this Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is,...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 14, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 3:4-11 4 Such is the confidence we have through Christ in facing God;5 it is not that we are so competent that we can claim any credit for ourselves; all our competence comes from God.6 He has given us the competence to be ministers of a...