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Saint of the Day
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,...
St. Daniel: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 16, 2025
Died in 309, He and four companions, Elias, Isaias, Jeremy and Samuel were Egyptians who visited Christians condemned to work in the mines of Cilicia during Maximus persecution, to comfort them. Apprehended at the gates of Caesarea, Palestine, they were brought before...
St. Vincent Pallotti: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 22, 2025
St. Vincent Pallotti, Priest (Feast - January 22) Born in Rome in 1795, St. Vincent became a priest and dedicated himself completely to God and cared for souls. He dreamed of gaining for Christ all non-Catholics, especially the Mohammedans. To this end he inaugurated...
St. Agnes: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 21, 2025
St. Agnes of Rome was born in 291 AD and raised in a Christian family. Agnes was very beautiful and belonged to a wealthy family. Her hand in marriage was highly sought after, and she had many high ranking men chasing after her. However, Agnes made a promise to God...
St. Fabian: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 20, 2025
Eusebius, born just a few years after Fabian's death, tells us how Fabian came to Rome after Pope Anteros died in 236. A layperson, and not a very important one, he may have come for the same reason many still come to Rome today during a papal election: concern for...
St. Fillan: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 19, 2025
Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew's monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later resigned...
St. Volusian: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 18, 2025
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
St. Anthony the Abbot: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 17, 2025
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that -- they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 18, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 5 Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived nothing but wicked schemes all day long.6 Yahweh regretted having made human beings on earth and was grieved at heart.7 And Yahweh said, 'I shall...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 17, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 4:1-15, 25 1 The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. 'I have acquired a man with the help of Yahweh,' she said.2 She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 16, 2025
Daily Reading for Sunday February 16, 2025 Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 1:1-2, 3, 4, 6Gospel, Luke 6:17, 20-26Reading 2, First Corinthians 15:12, 16-20 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Jeremiah 17:5-8 5...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 15, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 3:9-24 9 But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked.10 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'11 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from...
Daily Readings for Friday, February 14, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 3:1-8 1 Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did God really say you were not to eat from any of the trees in the garden?'2 The woman answered the snake, 'We may eat the fruit of...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 13, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 2:18-25 18 Yahweh God said, 'It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper.'19 So from the soil Yahweh God fashioned all the wild animals and all the birds of heaven. These he brought to the man to see what he would call...