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Saint of the Day
St. Dymphna: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, May 15, 2024
Dymphna was born in Ireland sometime in the seventh century to a pagan father and devout Christian mother. When she was fourteen, she consecrated herself to Christ and took a vow of chastity. Soon afterward, her mother died and her father - who had loved his wife...
St. Matthias: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 14, 2024
How does one qualify to be an apostle? The first act of the apostles after the Ascension of Jesus was to find a replacement for Judas. With all the questions, doubts, and dangers facing them, they chose to focus their attention on finding a twelfth apostle. Why was...
St. John the Silent: Saint of the Day for Monday, May 13, 2024
Bishop of Colonia in Palestine and a hermit. Born in Nicopolis, Armenia, he established a monastery at the age of eighteen. Appointed a bishop at the age of twenty-eight, he spent nine years in his office before retiring to Jerusalem to embrace the eremitical life....
Sts. Nereus & Achilleus: Saint of the Day for Sunday, May 12, 2024
So often we hear people or even ourselves excuse an action by saying "I was only following orders." But for Nereus and Achilleus this excuse could not stand in the face of the cross. Everything we know from authority about the two first- century martyrs comes from a...
St. Damien of Molokai: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 10, 2024
The man who would become St. Damien of Molokai, was born in rural Belgium, on January 3, 1840. His name was Jozef De Veuster, and he was the youngest of seven children. Growing up on the farm, Jozef was prepared to take over for his family, but he did not want the...
St. Pachomius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, May 09, 2024
St. Pachomius was born about 292 in the Upeer Thebaid in Egypt and was inducted into the Emperor's army as a twenty-year-old. The great kindness of Christians at Thebes toward the soldiers became embedded in his mind and led to his conversion after his discharge....
St. Peter of Tarantaise: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, May 08, 2024
Cistercian archbishop. Peter was born near Vienne, in Dauphine, France, and joined the Cistercian Order at Bonneveaux at the age of twenty with his two brothers and father. Known for his piety, at age thirty he was sent to serve as the first abbot of Tamie, in the...
St. Rose Venerini: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 07, 2024
Blessed Rose was born at Viterbo in 1656, the daughter of Godfrey Venerini, a physician. Upon the death of a young man who had been paying court to her, she entered a convent, but after a few months had to return home to look after her widowed mother. Rose use to...
St. Dominic Savio: Saint of the Day for Monday, May 06, 2024
Dominic Savio was born on April 2, 1842 in the village of Riva in northern Italy. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a seamstress. He had nine brothers and sisters. His family was poor but hardworking. They were devout and pious Catholics. When he was just two...
St. Hilary of Arles: Saint of the Day for Sunday, May 05, 2024
Bishop of Arles, France, and friend and relative of St. Honoratus. He was born to a noble family in Lorraine and was successful, although he gave up his secular career to join St. Honoratus at Lerins Abbey. When Honoratus died after being named the bishop of Arles,...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Saturday, June 08, 2024
Reading 1, Second Timothy 4:1-8 1 Before God and before Christ Jesus who is to be judge of the living and the dead, I charge you, in the name of his appearing and of his kingdom:2 proclaim the message and, welcome or unwelcome, insist on it. Refute falsehood, correct...
Daily Readings for Friday, June 07, 2024
Daily Reading for Friday June 7, 2024 Reading 1, Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8-9Responsorial Psalm, Isaiah 12:2-3, 4, 5-6Gospel, John 19:31-37Reading 2, Ephesians 3:8-12, 14-19 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Hosea 11:1, 3-4, 8-9 1 When...
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 06, 2024
Reading 1, Second Timothy 2:8-15 8 Remember the gospel that I carry, 'Jesus Christ risen from the dead, sprung from the race of David';9 it is on account of this that I have to put up with suffering, even to being chained like a criminal. But God's message cannot be...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 05, 2024
Reading 1, Second Timothy 1:1-3, 6-12 1 From Paul, apostle of Christ Jesus through the will of God in accordance with his promise of life in Christ Jesus,2 to Timothy, dear son of mine. Grace, mercy and peace from God the Father and from Christ Jesus our Lord.3 Night...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 04, 2024
Reading 1, Second Peter 3:12-15, 17-18 12 while you wait for the Day of God to come, and try to hasten its coming: on that Day the sky will dissolve in flames and the elements melt in the heat.13 What we are waiting for, relying on his promises, is the new heavens and...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 03, 2024
Reading 1, Second Peter 1:2-7 2 Grace and peace be yours in abundance through the knowledge of our Lord.3 By his divine power, he has lavished on us all the things we need for life and for true devotion, through the knowledge of him who has called us by his own glory...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 02, 2024
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 5:12-15 12 ' "Observe the Sabbath day and keep it holy, as Yahweh your God has commanded you.13 Labour for six days, doing all your work,14 but the seventh day is a Sabbath for Yahweh your God. You must not do any work that day, neither you, nor...
Daily Readings for Saturday, June 01, 2024
Reading 1, Jude 1:17, 20-25 17 But remember, my dear friends, what the apostles of our Lord Jesus Christ foretold.20 But you, my dear friends, must build yourselves up on the foundation of your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Spirit;21 keep yourselves within the...
Daily Readings for Friday, May 31, 2024
Reading 1, Zephaniah 3:14-18 14 Shout for joy, daughter of Zion, Israel, shout aloud! Rejoice, exult with all your heart, daughter of Jerusalem!15 Yahweh has repealed your sentence; he has turned your enemy away. Yahweh is king among you, Israel, you have nothing more...
Daily Readings for Thursday, May 30, 2024
Reading 1, Exodus 24:3-8 3 Moses went and told the people all Yahweh's words and all the laws, and all the people answered with one voice, 'All the words Yahweh has spoken we will carry out!'4 Moses put all Yahweh's words into writing, and early next morning he built...