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Saint of the Day
St. Lawrence of Brindisi: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 21, 2025
Caesare de Rossi was born at Brandisi, kingdom of Naples, on July 22nd. He was educated by the conventual Franciscans there and by his uncle at St. Mark's in Venice. When sixteen, he joined the Capuchins at Verona, taking the name Lawrence. He pursued his higher...
St. Margaret of Antioch: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 20, 2025
Nothing certain is known of her, but according to her untrustworthy legend, she was the daughter of a pagan priest at Antioch in Pisidia. Also known as Marina, she was converted to Christianity, whereupon she was driven from home by her father. She became a...
St. Arsenius the Great: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 19, 2025
Confessor and hermit on the Nile. Arsenius, who was born in Rome in 354, was the tutor of the children of Emperors Theodosius I the Great, Arcadius, and Honorius. At that time, Arsenius was a Roman deacon recommended for the office by Pope St. Damasus. lie served at...
St. Frederick: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 18, 2025
St. Frederick, Bishop of Utrecht, Martyr Frederick was trained in piety and sacred learning among the clergy of the Church of Utrecht. Being ordained priest, he was charged by Bishop Ricfried with the care of instructing converts, and about 825 he was chosen to...
Carmelite Nuns of Compiegne: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Sixteen Carmelites caught up in the French Revolution and martyred. When the revolution started in 1789, a group of twenty-one discalced Carmelites lived in a monastery in Compiegne France, founded in 1641. The monastery was ordered closed in 1790 by the Revolutionary...
St. Carmen: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
According to my resources, the name Carmen is a derivation of Carmel which is one of the titles given to Our Blessed Mother, namely, Our Lady of Mount Carmel. This is the patronal feast of the Carmelites. The Order of Carmelites takes its name from Mount Carmel, which...
St. Bonaventure: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, July 15, 2025
St. Bonaventure, Bishop and Doctor of the Church (Feast day-July 15) St. Bonaventure, known as "the seraphic doctor," was born at Bagnoregio, in the Lazio region of central Italy, in 1221. He received the name of Bonaventure in consequence of an exclamation of St....
St. Kateri Tekakwitha: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 14, 2025
St. Kateri Tekakwitha is the first Native American to be recognized as a saint by the Catholic Church. She was born in 1656, in the Mohawk village of Ossernenon. Her mother was an Algonquin, who was captured by the Mohawks and who took a Mohawk chief for her husband....
St. Henry: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 13, 2025
St. Henry, son of Henry, Duke of Bavaria, and of Gisella, daughter of Conrad, King of Burgundy, was born in 972. He received an excellent education under the care of St. Wolfgang, Bishop of Ratisbon. In 995, St. Henry succeeded his father as Duke of Bavaria, and in...
St. John Gaulbert, Abbot: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 12, 2025
Saint John Gaulbert, Abbot - Feast day is July 12th The city of Florence gave to the world Saint John Gaulbert. Although he enjoyed the benefits of an early Christian education, his youthful heart was soon attracted to the vanities of the world. A painful incident was...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 22, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 5:14-17 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 Monday, July 21, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 14:5-18 5 When Pharaoh king of Egypt was told that the people had fled, he and his officials changed their attitude towards the people. 'What have we done,' they said, 'allowing Israel to leave our service?'6 So Pharaoh had his chariot harnessed and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 20, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 18:1-10 1 Yahweh appeared to him at the Oak of Mamre while he was sitting by the entrance of the tent during the hottest part of the day.2 He looked up, and there he saw three men standing near him. As soon as he saw them he ran from the entrance of...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 19, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 12:37-42 37 The Israelites left Rameses for Succoth, about six hundred thousand on the march-men, that is, not counting their families.38 A mixed crowd of people went with them, and flocks and herds, quantities of livestock.39 And with the dough...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 18, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 11:10-12:14 10 Moses and Aaron worked all these wonders in Pharaoh's presence, but Yahweh made Pharaoh stubborn, and he did not let the Israelites leave his country.1 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron in Egypt,2 'This month must be the first of all the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 17, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 3:11-20 11 Moses said to God, 'Who am I to go to Pharaoh and bring the Israelites out of Egypt?'12 'I shall be with you,' God said, 'and this is the sign by which you will know that I was the one who sent you. After you have led the people out of...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 16, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 3:1-6, 9-12 1 Moses was looking after the flock of his father-in-law Jethro, the priest of Midian; he led it to the far side of the desert and came to Horeb, the mountain of God.2 The angel of Yahweh appeared to him in a flame blazing from the middle...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 15, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 2:1-15 1 There was a man descended from Levi who had taken a woman of Levi as his wife.2 She conceived and gave birth to a son and, seeing what a fine child he was, she kept him hidden for three months.3 When she could hide him no longer, she got a...
Daily Readings for Monday, July 14, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 1:8-14, 22 8 Then there came to power in Egypt a new king who had never heard of Joseph.9 'Look,' he said to his people, 'the Israelites are now more numerous and stronger than we are.10 We must take precautions to stop them from increasing any...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 13, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday July 13, 2025 Reading 1, Deuteronomy 30:10-14Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 69:14, 17, 30-31, 33-34, 36, 37Gospel, Luke 10:25-37Reading 2, Colossians 1:15-20 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Deuteronomy...