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Saint of the Day
St. Isabel of France: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her...
St. Tarasius: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
St. Tarasius was subject of the Byzantine Empire. He was raised to the highest honors in the Empire as Consul, and later became first secretary to the Emperor Constantine and his mother, Irene. When being elected Patriarch of Constantinople, he consented to accept the...
St. John Theristus: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 24, 2025
Benedictine monk, called Theristus or �Harvester.� He was of Calabrian lineage, born in Sicily. His mother was a slave of the Saracens. John escaped at a young age and became a monk. Excellent content provided by https://www.catholic.org/.
St. Polycarp: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 23, 2025
Imagine being able to sit at the feet of the apostles and hear their stories of life with Jesus from their own lips. Imagine walking with those who had walked with Jesus, seen him, and touched him. That was what Polycarp was able to do as a disciple of Saint John the...
St. Margaret of Cortona: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 22, 2025
Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret's mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped with a youth...
St. Severian: Saint of the Day for Friday, February 21, 2025
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
St. Wulfric: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 20, 2025
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
Bl. Alvarez of Corova: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Alvarez was born in either Lisbon, Portugal, or Cordova, Spain. He entered the Dominican convent at Cordova in 1368. He became known for his preaching prowess in Spain and Italy, was confessor and adviser of Queen Catherine, John of Gaunt's daughter, and tutor of King...
St. Simon: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
In St. Matthew's Gospel, we read of St. Simon or Simeon who is described as one of our Lord's brethren or kinsmen. His father was Cleophas, St. Joseph's brother, and his mother, according to some writers, was our Lady's sister. He would therefore be our Lord's first...
St. Alexis Falconieri: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 17, 2025
Founder and mystic, one of the first Servants of Mary or Servites. The son of a wealthy merchant in Florence, Italy, Alexis and six companions joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin in Florence in 1225. Gathered together on the Feast of the Assumption in 1233,...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Friday, February 28, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 6:5-17 5 A kindly turn of speech attracts new friends, a courteous tongue invites many a friendly response.6 Let your acquaintances be many, but for advisers choose one out of a thousand.7 If you want to make a friend, take him on trial, and do not...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 27, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 5:1-8 1 Do not put your confidence in your money or say, 'With this I am self-sufficient.'2 Do not be led by your appetites and energy to follow the passions of your heart.3 And do not say, 'Who has authority over me?' for the Lord will certainly...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 26, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 4:11-19 11 Wisdom brings up her own children and cares for those who seek her.12 Whoever loves her loves life, those who seek her early will be filled with joy.13 Whoever possesses her will inherit honour, and wherever he walks the Lord will bless...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 25, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 2:1-11 1 My child, if you aspire to serve the Lord, prepare yourself for an ordeal.2 Be sincere of heart, be steadfast, and do not be alarmed when disaster comes.3 Cling to him and do not leave him, so that you may be honoured at the end of your...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 24, 2025
Reading 1, Sirach 1:1-10 1 All wisdom comes from the Lord, she is with him for ever. 2 The sands of the sea, the drops of rain, the days of eternity -- who can count them?3 The height of the sky, the breadth of the earth, the depth of the abyss -- who can explore...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 23, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday February 23, 2025 Reading 1, First Samuel 26:2, 7-9, 12-13, 22-23Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 8, 10, 12-13Gospel, Luke 6:27-38Reading 2, First Corinthians 15:45-49 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 22, 2025
Reading 1, First Peter 5:1-4 1 I urge the elders among you, as a fellow-elder myself and a witness to the sufferings of Christ, and as one who is to have a share in the glory that is to be revealed:2 give a shepherd's care to the flock of God that is entrusted to you:...
Daily Readings for Friday, February 21, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 11:1-9 1 The whole world spoke the same language, with the same vocabulary.2 Now, as people moved eastwards they found a valley in the land of Shinar where they settled.3 They said to one another, 'Come, let us make bricks and bake them in the...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 20, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 9:1-13 1 God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, 'Breed, multiply and fill the earth.2 Be the terror and the dread of all the animals on land and all the birds of heaven, of everything that moves on land and all the fish of the sea; they are...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 19, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 8:6-13, 20-22 6 At the end of forty days Noah opened the window he had made in the ark7 and released a raven, which flew back and forth as it waited for the waters to dry up on earth.8 He then released a dove, to see whether the waters were receding...