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Saint of the Day
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...
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...
Daily Reading
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:...
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...