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Saint of the Day
St. Barnabas: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 11, 2025
All we know of Barnabas is to be found in the New Testament. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the name Barnabas, and lived in common with the earliest converts to Christianity in Jerusalem....
St. Getulius: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Martyr with Amantius, Caerealis, and Primitivus. He was the husband of St. Symphorosa. An officer in the Roman army, he resigned when he became a Christian and returned to his estates near Tivoli, Italy. There he converted Caerealis, an imperial legate sent to arrest...
St. Ephrem: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 09, 2025
"I was born in the way of truth: though my childhood was unaware of the greatness of the benefit, I knew it when trial came." Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns and poems on the faith that inflamed and inspired the whole Church, but few facts...
St. William of York: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 08, 2025
St. William of York, Bishop (Feast day is June 8th). William of York was the son of Count Herbert, treasurer to Henry I. His mother Emma, was the half-sister of King William. Young William became treasurer of the church of York at an early age and was elected...
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...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, June 12, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 3:15-4:1, 3-6 15 As it is, to this day, whenever Moses is read, their hearts are covered with a veil,16 and this veil will not be taken away till they turn to the Lord.17 Now this Lord is the Spirit and where the Spirit of the Lord is,...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, June 11, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 11:21-26; 13:1-3 21 The Lord helped them, and a great number believed and were converted to the Lord.22 The news of them came to the ears of the church in Jerusalem and they sent Barnabas out to Antioch.23 There he was glad to see for himself that God...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, June 10, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 1:18-22 18 As surely as God is trustworthy, what we say to you is not both Yes and No.19 The Son of God, Jesus Christ, who was proclaimed to you by us, that is, by me and by Silvanus and Timothy, was never Yes-and-No; his nature is all...
Daily Readings for Monday, June 09, 2025
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 1:1-7 1 Paul, by the will of God an apostle of Christ Jesus, and Timothy, our brother, to the church of God in Corinth and to all God's holy people in the whole of Achaia.2 Grace to you and peace from God our Father and the Lord Jesus...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 08, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday June 8, 2025 Reading 1, Acts 2:1-11Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 104:1, 24, 29-30, 31, 34Gospel, John 20:19-23Reading 2, First Corinthians 12:3-7, 12-13 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Acts 2:1-11 1 When...
Daily Readings for Saturday, June 07, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 28:16-20, 30-31 16 On our arrival in Rome Paul was allowed to stay in lodgings of his own with the soldier who guarded him.17 After three days he called together the leading Jews. When they had assembled, he said to them, 'Brothers, although I have...
Daily Readings for Friday, June 06, 2025
Reading 1, Acts 25:13-21 13 Some days later King Agrippa and Bernice arrived in Caesarea and paid their respects to Festus.14 Their visit lasted several days, and Festus put Paul's case before the king, saying, 'There is a man here whom Felix left behind in custody,15...
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...