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Saint of the Day
St. Enda: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 21, 2025
Legend has him an Irishman noted for his military feats who was convinced by his sister St. Fanchea to renounce his warring activities and marry. When he found his fiancee dead, he decided to become a monk and went on pilgrimage to Rome, where he was ordained. He...
Bl. John of Parma: Saint of the Day for Thursday, March 20, 2025
John Buralli, the seventh minister general of the Franciscans, was born at Parma in the year 1209, and he was already teaching logic there when at the age of twenty-five, he joined the Franciscans. He was sent to Paris to study and, after he had been ordained, to...
St. Joseph: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Everything we know about the husband of Mary and the foster father of Jesus comes from Scripture and that has seemed too little for those who made up legends about him. We know he was a carpenter, a working man, for the skeptical Nazarenes ask about Jesus, "Is this...
St. Cyril of Jerusalem: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, March 18, 2025
"Make your fold with the sheep; flee from the wolves: depart not from the Church," Cyril admonished catechumens surrounded by heresy. These were prophetic words for Cyril was to be hounded by enemies and heretics for most of his life, and although they could exile him...
St. Patrick: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 17, 2025
St. Patrick of Ireland is one of the world's most popular saints. He was born in Roman Britain and when he was fourteen or so, he was captured by Irish pirates during a raiding party and taken to Ireland as a slave to herd and tend sheep. At the time, Ireland was a...
St. Abban: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 16, 2025
Abbot and Irish missionary. An Irish prince, Abban was the son of King Cormac of Leinster. He is listed as the nephew of St. Ibar. Abban founded many churches in the old district of Ui Cennselaigh, in modern County Wexford and Ferns. His main monastery is...
St. Matilda: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 14, 2025
Matilda was the daughter of Count Dietrich of Westphalia and Reinhild of Denmark. She was also known as Mechtildis and Maud. She was raised by her grandmother, the Abbess of Eufurt convent. Matilda married Henry the Fowler, son of Duke Otto of Saxony, in the year 909....
Bl. Agnello of Pisa: Saint of the Day for Thursday, March 13, 2025
The founder of the English Franciscan province, Blessed Agnello, was admitted into the Order by St. Francis himself on the occasion of his sojourn in Pisa. He was sent to the Friary in Paris, of which he became the guardian, and in 1224, St. Francis appointed him to...
St. Fina: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 12, 2025
St. Fina or Seraphina, Virgin A.D. 1253 The old town of San Geminiano in Tuscany treasures with special veneration the memory of Santa Fina, a young girl whose claim to be recognized as a saint lay in the perfect resignation with which she accepted bodily suffering....
St. Constantine: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, March 11, 2025
Constantine was king of Cornwall. Unreliable tradition has him married to the daughter of the king of Brittany who on her death ceded his throne to his son and became a monk at St. Mochuda monastery at Rahan, Ireland. He performed menial tasks at the monastery, then...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Monday, March 24, 2025
Reading 1, Second Kings 5:1-15 1 Naaman, army commander to the king of Aram, was a man who enjoyed his master's respect and favour, since through him Yahweh had granted victory to the Aramaeans.2 But the man suffered from a virulent skin-disease. Now, on one of their...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 23, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday March 23, 2025 Reading 1, Exodus 3:1-8, 13-15Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 103:1-2, 3-4, 6-7, 8, 11Gospel, Luke 13:1-9Reading 2, First Corinthians 10:1-6, 10-12 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Exodus...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 22, 2025
Reading 1, Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 14 With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!15 As in the days when you came out...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 21, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 37:3-4, 12-13, 17-18 3 Jacob loved Joseph more than all his other sons, for he was the son of his old age, and he had a decorated tunic made for him.4 But his brothers, seeing how much more his father loved him than all his other sons, came to hate...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 20, 2025
Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-10 5 Yahweh says this, 'Accursed be anyone who trusts in human beings, who relies on human strength and whose heart turns from Yahweh.6 Such a person is like scrub in the wastelands: when good comes, it does not affect him since he lives in...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 19, 2025
Daily Reading for Wednesday March 19, 2025 Reading 1, Second Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29Gospel, Luke 2:41-51Reading 2, Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Second...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 18, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 1:10, 16-20 10 Hear what Yahweh says, you rulers of Sodom; listen to what our God teaches, you people of Gomorrah.16 wash, make yourselves clean. Take your wrong-doing out of my sight. Cease doing evil.17 Learn to do good, search for justice,...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 17, 2025
Reading 1, Daniel 9:4-10 4 I pleaded with Yahweh my God and made this confession: 'O my Lord, God great and to be feared, you keep the covenant and show faithful love towards those who love you and who observe your commandments:5 we have sinned, we have done wrong, we...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 16, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 15:5-12, 17-18 5 Then taking him outside, he said, 'Look up at the sky and count the stars if you can. Just so will your descendants be,' he told him.6 Abram put his faith in Yahweh and this was reckoned to him as uprightness.7 He then said to him,...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 15, 2025
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 26:16-19 16 'Yahweh your God commands you today to observe these laws and customs; you must keep and observe them with all your heart and with all your soul.17 'Today you have obtained this declaration from Yahweh: that he will be your God, but...