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Saint of the Day
St. Isabel of France: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 26, 2024
Sister of St. Louis and daughter of King Louis VIII of France and Blanche of Castile, she refused offers of marriage from several noble suitors to continue her life of virginity consecrated to God. She ministered to the sick and the poor, and after the death of her...
St. Tarasius: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 25, 2024
St. Tarasius was subject of the Byzantine Empire. He was raised to the highest honors in the Empire as Consul, and later became first secretary to the Emperor Constantine and his mother, Irene. When being elected Patriarch of Constantinople, he consented to accept the...
St. John Theristus: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 24, 2024
Benedictine monk, called Theristus or Â?Harvester.Â? He was of Calabrian lineage, born in Sicily. His mother was a slave of the Saracens. John escaped at a young age and became a monk. Excellent content provided by https://www.catholic.org/.
St. Polycarp: Saint of the Day for Friday, February 23, 2024
Imagine being able to sit at the feet of the apostles and hear their stories of life with Jesus from their own lips. Imagine walking with those who had walked with Jesus, seen him, and touched him. That was what Polycarp was able to do as a disciple of Saint John the...
St. Margaret of Cortona: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 22, 2024
Margaret of Cortona, penitent, was born in Loviana in Tuscany in 1247. Her father was a small farmer. Margaret's mother died when she was seven years old. Her stepmother had little care for her high-spirited daughter. Rejected at home, Margaret eloped with a youth...
St. Severian: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 21, 2024
Bishop and martyr. The bishop of Scythopolis in Galilee. He attended the Council of Chalcedon (451) and took part in the complete triumph of the orthodox Christian cause against the heretics of the era. On his return home he was assassinated by a group of heretics at...
St. Wulfric: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 20, 2024
Wulfric (d. 1154) + hermit and miracle worker. Born at Compton Martin, near Bristol, England, he became a priest and was excessively materialistic and worldly. After meeting with a beggar, he underwent a personal conversion and became a hermit at Haselbury; Somerset,...
Bl. Alvarez of Corova: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 19, 2024
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 Sunday, February 18, 2024
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 Saturday, February 17, 2024
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,...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 24, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 50:4-7 4 Lord Yahweh has given me a disciple's tongue, for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the weary. Morning by morning he makes my ear alert to listen like a disciple.5 Lord Yahweh has opened my ear and I have not resisted, I have not...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 23, 2024
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Daily Readings for Friday, March 22, 2024
Reading 1, Jeremiah 20:10-13 10 I heard so many disparaging me, 'Terror on every side! Denounce him! Let us denounce him!' All those who were on good terms with me watched for my downfall, 'Perhaps he will be seduced into error. Then we shall get the better of him and...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 21, 2024
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Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 20, 2024
Daily Reading for Wednesday March 20, 2024 Reading 1, Daniel 3:14-20, 91-92, 95Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56Gospel, John 8:31-42 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings We ask you, humbly: don't scroll away. Hi readers, it seems...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 19, 2024
Daily Reading for Tuesday March 19, 2024 Reading 1, Second Samuel 7:4-5, 12-14, 16Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 89:2-3, 4-5, 27, 29Gospel, Matthew 1:16, 18-21, 24Reading 2, Romans 4:13, 16-18, 22 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1,...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 18, 2024
Reading 1, Daniel 13:1-9, 15-17, 19-30, 33-62 1 In Babylon there lived a man named Joakim.2 He was married to a woman called Susanna daughter of Hilkiah, a woman of great beauty; and she was God-fearing, for3 her parents were worthy people and had instructed their...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 17, 2024
Reading 1, Jeremiah 31:31-34 31 'Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall make a new covenant with the House of Israel (and the House of Judah),32 but not like the covenant I made with their ancestors the day I took them by the hand to bring them out...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 16, 2024
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Daily Readings for Friday, March 15, 2024
Daily Reading for Friday March 15, 2024 Reading 1, Wisdom 2:1, 12-22Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 34:17-18, 19-20, 21, 23Gospel, John 7:1-2, 10, 25-30 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Wisdom 2:1, 12-22 1 And this is the false...