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Saint of the Day
St. Fursey: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 16, 2025
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
St. Paul the Hermit: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the...
St. Felix of Nola: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father's estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of his father, Felix distributed his inheritance to the poor, was ordained by Bishop St. Maximus of Nola, and became his...
St. Hilary of Poitiers: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 13, 2025
"They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other hand, knew very well who he was -- a child of a loving God who had inherited eternal life through belief in the Son of God....
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 12, 2025
Marguerite had survived many threats in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had lived through Iroquois attacks, a fire that destroyed her small village, plagues on the ships that she took back and forth to France, but nothing threatened her...
St. Theodosius the Cenobiarch: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 11, 2025
Abbot and founder. Born at Garissus, Cappadocia (modern Turkey), in 423, he undertook a pilgrimage to Jerusalem, and after meeting with the famed St. Simeon Stylites, he entered a monastery. Later, he was named the head of a church between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, but...
St. William of Bourges: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 10, 2025
William Berruyer, of the illustrious family of the ancient counts of Nevers, was educated by Peter the hermit, archdeacon of Soissons, his uncle by the mother's side. He learned from his infancy to despise the folly and emptiness of the riches and grandeur of the...
St. Adrian, Abbot: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 09, 2025
Born in Africa, Adrian became abbot of the monastery at Nerida, near Naples. He declined an appointment as archbishop of Canterbury, but accompanied St. Theodore to England when the latter was appointed Archbishop. Theodore appointed him Abbot of SS. Peter and Paul...
St. Thorfinn: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 08, 2025
In the year 1285, there died in the Cistercian monastery at TerDoest, near Bruges, a Norwegian bishop named Thorfinn. He had never attracted particular attention and was soon forgotten. But over fifty years later, in the course of some building operations, his tomb in...
St. Raymond of Pennafort: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 07, 2025
St. Raymond of Pennafort, Patron Saint of Canonists (Feast day - January 7) Born in Spain, St. Raymond was a relative of the King of Aragon. From childhood he had a tender love and devotion to the Blessed Mother. He finished his studies at an early age, and became a...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 12, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 2:5-9, 15-17 5 there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for Yahweh God had not sent rain on the earth, nor was there any man to till the soil.6 Instead, water flowed out of the ground and watered all the...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 11, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 1:20-2:4 20 God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above the earth across the vault of heaven.' And so it was.21 God created great sea-monsters and all the creatures that glide and teem in...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 10, 2025
Reading 1, Genesis 1:1-19 1 In the beginning God created heaven and earth.2 Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.3 God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.4 God saw that light was...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 09, 2025
Reading 1, Isaiah 6:1-2, 3-8 1 In the year of King Uzziah's death I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne; his train filled the sanctuary.2 Above him stood seraphs, each one with six wings: two to cover its face, two to cover its feet and two for flying;3 and...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 08, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 13:15-17, 20-21 15 Through him, let us offer God an unending sacrifice of praise, the fruit of the lips of those who acknowledge his name.16 Keep doing good works and sharing your resources, for these are the kinds of sacrifice that please God.17...
Daily Readings for Friday, February 07, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 13:1-8 1 Continue to love each other like brothers,2 and remember always to welcome strangers, for by doing this, some people have entertained angels without knowing it.3 Keep in mind those who are in prison, as though you were in prison with them;...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 06, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:18-19, 21-24 18 What you have come to is nothing known to the senses: not a blazing fire, or gloom or total darkness, or a storm;19 or trumpet-blast or the sound of a voice speaking which made everyone that heard it beg that no more should be...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 05, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:4-7, 11-15 4 In the fight against sin, you have not yet had to keep fighting to the point of bloodshed.5 Have you forgotten that encouraging text in which you are addressed as sons? My son, do not scorn correction from the Lord, do not resent his...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 04, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 12:1-4 1 With so many witnesses in a great cloud all around us, we too, then, should throw off everything that weighs us down and the sin that clings so closely, and with perseverance keep running in the race which lies ahead of us.2 Let us keep our...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 03, 2025
Reading 1, Hebrews 11:32-40 32 What more shall I say? There is not time for me to give an account of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, or of David, Samuel and the prophets.33 These were men who through faith conquered kingdoms, did what was upright and earned the...