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Saint of the Day
St. Willibald: Saint of the Day for Saturday, June 07, 2025
Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his...
St. Norbert: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 06, 2025
St. Norbert was born at Xanten in the Rhineland, about the year 1080. The early part of his life was devoted to the world and its pleasures. He entered upon the ecclesiastical state in a worldly spirit. The thunderstorm had boiled up suddenly as Norbert was out...
St. Boniface of Mainz: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 05, 2025
Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest because he was convinced he was called to missionary work. He had argued and pestered his abbot...
St. Francis Caracciolo: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 04, 2025
Founder of the Minor Clerks Regular with St. John Augustine Adorno. He was born in 1563, a member of a noble Neapolitan family. Though he had a rare skin disease, much like leprosy, Francis became a priest, at which time his skin disease disappeared. In 1588, he...
St. Charles Lwanga and Companions: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 03, 2025
For those of us who think that the faith and zeal of the early Christians died out as the Church grew more safe and powerful through the centuries, the martyrs of Uganda are a reminder that persecution of Christians continues in modern times, even to the present day....
Sts. Marcellinus and Peter: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 02, 2025
Though we know very little about these two martyrs under Diocletian, there is no question that the early church venerated them. Evidence of the respect in which they were held are the basilica Constantine built over their tombs and the presence of their names in the...
St. Justin Martyr: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 01, 2025
Christian apologist, born at Flavia Neapolis, about A.D. 100, converted to Christianity about A.D. 130, taught and defended the Christian religion in Asia Minor and at Rome, where he suffered martyrdom about the year 165. Two "Apologies" bearing his name and his...
St. Mechtildis: Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 31, 2025
Benedictine abbess and miracle worker. She was the daughter of Count Berthold of Andechs, in modem Bavaria, Germany. The count and his wife, Sophia, founded a monastery on their esĂ?Âtate at Diessen, Bavaria, and placed Mechtildis there at the age of five. She became...
St. Joan of Arc: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 30, 2025
St. Joan of Arc is the patroness of soldiers and of France. On January 6, 1412, Joan of Arc was born to pious parents of the French peasant class in the obscure village of Domremy, near the province of Lorraine. At a very early age, she was said to have heard the...
St. Maximinus of Trier: Saint of the Day for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Bishop of Trier, Germany, from 332, and a miracle worker. He was probably born at Silly, France, and succeeded St. Agritus as bishop of Trier, giving refuge to St. Athanasius in 336. St. Paul, the patriarch of Constantinople, was also given Maximinus� protection....
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 05, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 22:30; 23:6-11 30 The next day, since he wanted to know for sure what charge the Jews were bringing, he freed Paul and gave orders for a meeting of the chief priests and the entire Sanhedrin; then he brought Paul down and set him in front of them.6 Now...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 04, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 20:28-38 28 'Be on your guard for yourselves and for all the flock of which the Holy Spirit has made you the guardians, to feed the Church of God which he bought with the blood of his own Son.29 'I know quite well that when I have gone fierce wolves...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 03, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 20:17-27 17 From Miletus he sent for the elders of the church of Ephesus.18 When they arrived he addressed these words to them: 'You know what my way of life has been ever since the first day I set foot among you in Asia,19 how I have served the Lord...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 02, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 19:1-8 1 It happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul made his way overland as far as Ephesus, where he found a number of disciples.2 When he asked, 'Did you receive the Holy Spirit when you became believers?' they answered, 'No, we were never...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 01, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 7:55-60 55 But Stephen, filled with the Holy Spirit, gazed into heaven and saw the glory of God, and Jesus standing at God's right hand.56 'Look! I can see heaven thrown open,' he said, 'and the Son of man standing at the right hand of God.'57 All the...
Daily Readings for Saturday, May 31, 2025
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 Friday, May 30, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 18:9-18 9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, 'Be fearless; speak out and do not keep silence:10 I am with you. I have so many people that belong to me in this city that no one will attempt to hurt you.'11 So Paul stayed there preaching the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, May 29, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11 1 In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught from the beginning2 until the day he gave his instructions to the apostles he had chosen through the Holy Spirit, and was taken up to heaven.3 He had shown...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, May 28, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22-18:1 15 Paul's escort took him as far as Athens, and went back with instructions for Silas and Timothy to rejoin Paul as soon as they could.22 So Paul stood before the whole council of the Areopagus and made this speech: 'Men of Athens, I...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, May 27, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 16:22-34 22 The crowd joined in and showed its hostility to them, so the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be flogged.23 They were given many lashes and then thrown into prison, and the gaoler was told to keep a close watch on them.24...