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Saint of the Day
St. Benedict of Nursia: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 11, 2025
St. Benedict is believed to have been born around 480, as the son to a Roman noble of Norcia and the twin to his sister, Scholastica. In the fifth century, the young Benedict was sent to Rome to finish his education with a nurse/housekeeper. The subject that dominated...
Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 10, 2025
Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in...
St. Veronica Giuliani: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Capuchin mystic who had many spiritual gifis. A native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660, she entered the Capuchins atCitttidi Castello, Umbria, in 1677. She remained there for the rest of her life and served as novice mistress for thirty-four years. A...
St. Grimbald: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk. He became the abbot of New Minster Abbey at Winchester appointed by King Edward the Elder....
Bl. Ralph Milner: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 07, 2025
English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by...
St. Maria Goretti: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 06, 2025
Born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, in the Ancona Province in Italy, her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. When he died of malaria, Maria's mother had to struggle to feed her children. Maria's mother, brothers, and sisters worked in...
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 05, 2025
Cofounder of the Barnabites. Born in 1502 in Cremona, Italy, Anthony became a medical doctor. In 1528 he was ordained a priest and cofounded the Barnabites, the religious congregation so called because it was headquartered in St. Barnabas Monastery in Milan. The...
St. Elizabeth of Portugal: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 04, 2025
Elizabeth was a Spanish princess who was given in marriage to King Denis of Portugal at the age of twelve. She was very beautiful and very lovable. She was also very devout, and went to Mass every day. Elizabeth was a holy wife, but although her husband was fond of...
St. Thomas: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 03, 2025
St. Thomas was born a Jew and was called to be one of the twelve Apostles. His birth and death dates are unknown, but his feast day is celebrated July 3. He lived before the formal establishment of the Catholic Church but is recognized as the patron saint of...
St. Bernardino Realino: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 02, 2025
St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went on to study medicine at the University of Bologna, but after three years he switched to law and...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 12, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 49:29-33; 50:15-24 29 Then he gave them these instructions, 'I am about to be gathered to my people. Bury me with my ancestors, in the cave that is in the field of Ephron the Hittite,30 in the cave in the field at Machpelah, facing Mamre, in Canaan,...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 11, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 46:1-7, 28-30 1 So Israel set out with all his possessions. Arriving at Beersheba, he offered sacrifices to the God of his father Isaac.2 God spoke to Israel in a vision at night, 'Jacob, Jacob,' he said. 'Here I am,' he replied.3 'I am El, God of...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 10, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 44:18-21, 23-29; 45:1-5 18 At this, Judah went up to him and said, 'May it please my lord, let your servant have a word privately with my lord. Do not be angry with your servant, for you are like Pharaoh himself.19 My lord questioned his servants,...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 09, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 55 But when all Egypt too began to feel the famine and the people appealed to Pharaoh for food, Pharaoh told all the Egyptians, 'Go to Joseph and do whatever he tells you.'56 There was famine all over the world. Then Joseph...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 08, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 41:55-57; 42:5-7, 17-24 23 That same night he got up and, taking his two wives, his two slave-girls and his eleven children, crossed the ford of the Jabbok.24 After he had taken them across the stream, he sent all his possessions over too.25 And...
Daily Readings for Monday, July 07, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 28:10-22 10 Jacob left Beersheba and set out for Haran.11 When he had reached a certain place, he stopped there for the night, since the sun had set. Taking one of the stones of that place, he made it his pillow and lay down where he was.12 He had a...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 06, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday July 6, 2025 Reading 1, Isaiah 66:10-14Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20Gospel, Luke 10:1-12, 17-20Reading 2, Galatians 6:14-18 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Isaiah 66:10-14 10...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 05, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 27:1-5, 15-29 1 When Isaac had grown old, and his eyes were so weak that he could no longer see, he summoned his elder son Esau. 'Son!' he said, and Esau replied, 'Here I am.'2 He then said, 'Look, I am old and do not know when I may die.3 Now take...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 04, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 23:1-4, 19; 24:1-8, 62-67 1 The length of Sarah's life was a hundred and twenty-seven years.2 She died at Kiriath-Arba -- now Hebron -- in the land of Canaan, and Abraham proceeded to mourn and bewail her.3 Then rising from beside his dead, Abraham...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 03, 2025
Reading 1, Ephesians 2:19-22 19 So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors; you are fellow-citizens with the holy people of God and part of God's household.20 You are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the...