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Saint of the Day
St. Bernard of Clairvaux: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor of the Church St. Bernard was born of noble parentage in Burgundy, France, in the castle of Fontaines near Dijon. Under the care of his pious parents he was sent at an early age to a college at Chatillon, where he was conspicuous for his...
St. John Eudes: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, August 19, 2025
John Eudes was born at Ri, Normandy, France, on November 14, 1601, the son of a farmer. He went to the Jesuit college at Caen when he was 14, and despite his parents' wish that he marry, joined the Congregation of the Oratory of France in 1623. He studied at Paris and...
St. Helena: Saint of the Day for Monday, August 18, 2025
St. Helena was the mother of Emperor Constantine the Great and an Empress of the Roman Empire. Very little is known about Helena's early life, but it is believed she is from Drepanum (later known as Helenopolis) in Asia Minor and born into a poor family and lower...
St. Clare of Montefalco: Saint of the Day for Sunday, August 17, 2025
Clare was born at Montefalco, Italy, around 1268. As a young woman she joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries. This group established Holy Cross Convent at Montefalco in 1290, adopting the Rule of St. Augustine. Clare's sister Joan was the abbess of this community,...
St. Stephen the Great: Saint of the Day for Saturday, August 16, 2025
St. Stephen the Great (977-1038), was the son of the Magyar chieftain Geza, Stephen succeeded him as leader in 997. Already raised a Christian, in 996 he wed the daughter of Duke Henry II of Bavaria and devoted much of his reign to the promotion of the Christian...
St. Alipius: Saint of the Day for Friday, August 15, 2025
Bishop and companion of St. Augustine. He was born in Tagaste, North Africa, and was raised as a friend of St. Augustine. He went to Rome to study law and became a magistrate there. When Augustine arrived in Rome, Alipius resigned his post and accompanied him to...
St. Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of the Day for Thursday, August 14, 2025
St. Maximilian Kolbe was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War II. St. Maximilian Kolbe was very...
St. Hippolytus: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Martyr of Rome, with Concordia and other companions, he is a controversial figure who censured Pope St. Callistus I. Hippolytus was slain in Sardinia where he had been exiled for being elected as an antipope, the first in the history of the Church. He was reconciled...
St. Michael My: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Martyr of Vietnam. He was the mayor of a town in Vietnam when the persecution of Christians started. Michael was martyred with Blessed Anthony Dich, his son-in-law, and with St. James Nam. He was canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Excellent content provided by...
St. Clare of Assisi: Saint of the Day for Monday, August 11, 2025
St. Clare of Assisi was born in Assisi on July 16, 1194, as Chiara Offreduccio, the beautiful eldest daughter of Favorino Sciffi, Count of Sasso-Rosso and his wife Ortolana. Tradition says her father was a wealthy representative of an ancient Roman family and her...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 21, 2025
Reading 1, Judges 11:29-39 Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:5, 7-8, 8-9, 10 5 How much you have done, Yahweh, my God -- your wonders, your plans for us -- you have no equal. I will proclaim and speak of them; they are beyond number.7 then I said, 'Here I am, I am...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, August 20, 2025
Reading 1, Judges 9:6-15 6 All the leading men of Shechem and all Beth-Millo then met and proclaimed Abimelech king at the oak of the cultic stone at Shechem.7 News of this was brought to Jotham. He went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim and shouted at the top of...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, August 19, 2025
Reading 1, Judges 6:11-24 11 The Angel of Yahweh came and sat under the terebinth at Ophrah which belonged to Joash of Abiezer. Gideon his son was threshing wheat inside the wine-press, to keep it hidden from Midian,12 and the Angel of Yahweh appeared to him and said,...
Daily Readings for Monday, August 18, 2025
Reading 1, Judges 2:11-19 11 The Israelites then did what is evil in Yahweh's eyes and served the Baals.12 They deserted Yahweh, God of their ancestors, who had brought them out of Egypt, and they followed other gods, from those of the surrounding peoples. They bowed...
Daily Readings for Sunday, August 17, 2025
Reading 1, Jeremiah 38:4-6, 8-10 4 The chief men then said to the king, 'You must have this man put to death: he is unquestionably disheartening the remaining soldiers in the city, and all the people too, by talking like this. This man is seeking not the welfare of...
Daily Readings for Saturday, August 16, 2025
Reading 1, Joshua 24:14-29 14 'So now, fear Yahweh and serve him truly and sincerely; banish the gods whom your ancestors served beyond the River and in Egypt, and serve Yahweh.15 But if serving Yahweh seems a bad thing to you, today you must make up your minds whom...
Daily Readings for Friday, August 15, 2025
Reading 1, Revelation 11:19; 12:1-6, 10 19 Then the sanctuary of God in heaven opened, and the ark of the covenant could be seen inside it. Then came flashes of lightning, peals of thunder and an earthquake and violent hail.1 Now a great sign appeared in heaven: a...
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 14, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:6-11 6 Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?7 Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, August 13, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 34:1-12 1 Then, leaving the Plains of Moab, Moses went up Mount Nebo, the peak of Pisgah opposite Jericho, and Yahweh showed him the whole country: Gilead as far as Dan,2 the whole of Naphtali, the country of Ephraim and Manasseh, the whole...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, August 12, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 31:1-8 1 Moses went and spoke to all Israel as follows,2 'Today, I am one hundred and twenty years old, and can no longer act as leader. Yahweh has told me, "You shall not cross this Jordan."3 Yahweh your God himself will lead you across, he...