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Saint of the Day
St. Fillan: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 19, 2024
Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew's monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later resigned...
St. Volusian: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
St. Anthony the Abbot: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that -- they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
St. Fursey: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
St. Paul the Hermit: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 15, 2024
Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the...
St. Felix of Nola: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 14, 2024
Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father's estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of his father, Felix distributed his inheritance to the poor, was ordained by Bishop St. Maximus of Nola, and became his...
St. Hilary of Poitiers: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 13, 2024
"They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other hand, knew very well who he was -- a child of a loving God who had inherited eternal life through belief in the Son of God....
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 12, 2024
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 Thursday, January 11, 2024
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 Wednesday, January 10, 2024
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...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 21, 2024
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-5, 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 Saturday, January 20, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 1 Saul was dead and David, returning after his victory over the Amalekites, had been at Ziklag for two days.2 On the third day, a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 19, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 24:3-21 3 Saul thereupon took three thousand men selected from all Israel and went in search of David and his men east of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.4 He came to the sheepfolds along the route, where there was a cave, and went in to cover...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1 Saul let his son Jonathan and all his servants know of his intention to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, held David in great affection;2 and Jonathan warned David, 'My father Saul is looking for a way to kill you, so be on...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 32 David said to Saul, 'Let no one be discouraged on his account; your servant will go and fight this Philistine.'33 Saul said to David, 'You cannot go and fight the Philistine; you are only a boy and he has been a warrior...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 16:1-13 1 Yahweh said to Samuel, 'How much longer do you mean to go on mourning over Saul, now that I myself have rejected him as ruler of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have found myself a...
Daily Readings for Monday, January 15, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 15:16-23 16 Samuel then said to Saul, 'Stop! Let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.' He said, 'Go on.'17 Samuel said, 'Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 14, 2024
Daily Reading for Sunday January 14, 2024 Reading 1, First Samuel 3:3-10, 19Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10Gospel, John 1:35-42Reading 2, First Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, First...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 13, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 1 Among the men of Benjamin was a man called Kish son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah; a Benjaminite and a person of rank.2 He had a son called Saul, a handsome man in the prime of life. Of all the...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 12, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22 4 The elders of Israel all assembled, went back to Samuel at Ramah, and said,5 'Look, you are old, and your sons are not following your example. So give us a king to judge us, like the other nations.'6 Samuel thought that it was...