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Saint of the Day
St. Benjamin: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 31, 2025
St. Benjamin, Martyr (Feast Day - March 31) The Christians in Persia had enjoyed twelve years of peace during the reign of Isdegerd, son of Sapor III, when in 420 it was disturbed by the indiscreet zeal of Abdas, a Christian Bishop who burned the Temple of Fire, the...
St. Peter Regulatus: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 30, 2025
Also Peter Regalado, Franciscan reformer. Peter was born at Valladolid, Spain, to a noble family, and entered the Franciscan Order in his native city at the age of thirteen. After several years, he transferred to a far more austere monastery at Tribulos, where he...
St. Berthold: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 29, 2025
Considered by some historians to be the founder of the Carmelite Order. He was born in Limoges, France, and proved a brilliant student at the University of Paris. Ordained a priest, Berthold joined his brother, Aymeric, the Latin patriarch of Antioch, in Turkey, on...
St. Venturino of Bergamo: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 28, 2025
Dominican preacher and missionary crusader. A native of Bergamo, Italy, he joined the Dominicans in 1319 and soon distinguished himself as a brilliant preacher, attracting huge crowds throughout northern Italy. Pleased with his ability to reach large numbers of...
St. Rupert: Saint of the Day for Thursday, March 27, 2025
Bishop and missionary, also listed as Robert of Hrodbert. A member of a noble Frankish family, he was appointed bishop of Worms, Germany, and then dedicated himself to spreading the faith among the Germans. With the patronage of Duke Thedo of Bavaria, he took over the...
St. Margaret Clitherow: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 26, 2025
St. Margaret Clitherow was born in Middleton, England, in 1555, of protestant parents. Possessed of good looks and full of wit and merriment, she was a charming personality. In 1571, she married John Clitherow, a well-to-do grazier and butcher (to whom she bore two...
St. Dismas: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, March 25, 2025
All that is known of Dismas is that he is the Good Thief crucified with Christ on Calvary. The other thief is known as Gestas. A completely unsubstantiated myth from the Arabic Gospel of the Infancy that enjoyed great popularity in the West during the Middle Ages had...
St. Aldemar: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 24, 2025
Abbot and miracle worker, called "the Wise." Born in Capua, Italy, he became a monk in Monte Cassino and was called to the attention of a Princess Aloara of the region. When she built a new convent in Capua, Alder became the director of the religious in the...
St. Toribio Alfonso de Mogrovejo: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 23, 2025
Bishop and defender of the rights of the native Indians in Peru, Born in Mayorga, Spain, he studied law and became a lawyer and then professor at Salamanca, receiving appointment-despite being a layman-as chief judge of the court of Inquisition at Granada under King...
St. Lea: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 22, 2025
A letter which St. Jerome wrote to St. Marcella provides the only information we have about St. Lea, a devout fourth century widow. Upon the death of her husband, she retired to a Roman monastery and ultimately became its Superior. Since his correspondence was...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, April 03, 2025
Reading 1, Exodus 32:7-14 7 Yahweh then said to Moses, 'Go down at once, for your people whom you brought here from Egypt have become corrupt.8 They have quickly left the way which I ordered them to follow. They have cast themselves a metal calf, worshipped it and...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, April 02, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 49:8-15 8 Thus says Yahweh: At the time of my favour I have answered you, on the day of salvation I have helped you. I have formed you and have appointed you to be the covenant for a people, to restore the land, to return ravaged properties,9 to say...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, April 01, 2025
Reading 1, Ezekiel 47:1-9, 12 1 He brought me back to the entrance of the Temple, where a stream flowed eastwards from under the Temple threshold, for the Temple faced east. The water flowed from under the right side of the Temple, south of the altar.2 He took me out...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 31, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 65:17-21 17 For look, I am going to create new heavens and a new earth, and the past will not be remembered and will come no more to mind.18 Rather be joyful, be glad for ever at what I am creating, for look, I am creating Jerusalem to be 'Joy' and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 30, 2025
Reading 1, Joshua 5:9, 10-12 9 Yahweh then said to Joshua, 'Today I have taken the shame of Egypt away from you.' Hence, the place has been called Gilgal ever since.10 The Israelites pitched their camp at Gilgal and kept the Passover there on the fourteenth day of the...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 29, 2025
Reading 1, Hosea 6:1-6 1 Come, let us return to Yahweh. He has rent us and he will heal us; he has struck us and he will bind up our wounds;2 after two days he will revive us, on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his presence.3 Let us know, let us...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 28, 2025
Reading 1, Hosea 14:2-10 2 Israel, come back to Yahweh your God your guilt was the cause of your downfall.3 Provide yourself with words and come back to Yahweh. Say to him, 'Take all guilt away and give us what is good, instead of bulls we will dedicate to you our...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 27, 2025
Reading 1, Jeremiah 7:23-28 23 My one command to them was this: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. In everything, follow the way that I mark out for you, and you shall prosper.24 But they did not listen, they did not pay attention;...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 26, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 1 'And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.5 Look: as...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 25, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 7:10-14 10 Yahweh spoke to Ahaz again and said:11 Ask Yahweh your God for a sign, either in the depths of Sheol or in the heights above.12 But Ahaz said, 'I will not ask. I will not put Yahweh to the test.'13 He then said: Listen now, House of David:...