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Saint of the Day
St. Castorius: Saint of the Day for Friday, November 08, 2024
St. Castorius is the patron saint of sculptors and his feast day is November 8th. Castorius, Claudius, Nicostratus, and Symphorian are called "the four crowned martyrs" who were tortured and executed in Pannonia, Hungary during the reign of Diocletian. According to...
St. Achillas: Saint of the Day for Thursday, November 07, 2024
St. Achillas, a revered bishop and theologian, lived during a tumultuous period in the early Church marked by significant theological disputes. He was the Bishop of Alexandria, one of the most influential cities in the ancient world, both politically and spiritually....
St. Leonard: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, November 06, 2024
According to unreliable sources, he was a Frank courtier who was converted by St. Remigius, refused the offer of a See from his godfather, King Clovis I, and became a monk at Micy. He lived as a hermit at Limoges and was rewarded by the king with all the land he could...
St. Elizabeth: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, November 05, 2024
What we know of St. Elizabeth comes from the Gospel, the book of Luke, in particular. In Luke, Elizabeth, a daughter of the line of Aaron, and the wife of Zechariah, was "righteous before God" and was "blameless" but childless. Elizabeth is also a cousin to the Virgin...
St. Charles Borromeo: Saint of the Day for Monday, November 04, 2024
Saint Charles Borromeo was born on October 2, 1538 at the castle of Arona on Lake Maggiore near Milan. His father was the Count of Arona and his mother a member of the House of Medici. He was the third of six children born to the couple. At the age of 12, the young...
St. Martin de Porres: Saint of the Day for Sunday, November 03, 2024
St. Martin de Porres was born in Lima, Peru on December 9, 1579. Martin was the illegitimate son to a Spanish gentlemen and a freed slave from Panama, of African or possibly Native American descent. At a young age, Martin's father abandoned him, his mother and his...
St. Victorinus of Pettau: Saint of the Day for Saturday, November 02, 2024
Bishop and martyr. Originally a Greek, he became bishop of Pettau, in Pannonia (later Styria, Austria). He was martyred during the persecutions of Emperor Diocletian (r. 284-305). Victorinus was also the author of several biblical cornrnentaries, although he may have...
St. Valentine Berrio-Ochoa: Saint of the Day for Friday, November 01, 2024
Bishop and martyr of Vietnam. A native of Ellorio, Spain, he entered the Dominican Order and was sent to the Philippines. From there he went to Vietnam in 1858, serving as a vicar apostolic and titular bishop until betrayed by an apostate. He was martyred by beheading...
St. Wolfgang: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 31, 2024
Wolfgang (d. 994) + Bishop and reformer. Born in Swabia, Germany, he studied at Reichenau under the Benedictines and at Wurzburg before serving as a teacher in the cathedral school of Trier. He soon entered the Benedictines at Einsiedeln (964) and was appointed head...
St. Alphonsus Rodriguez: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Confessor and Jay brother, also called Alonso. He was born in Segovia, Spain, on July 25, 1532, the son of a wealthy merchant, and was prepared for First Communion by Blessed Peter Favre, a friend of Alphonsus' father. While studying with the Jesuits at Alcala,...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Wednesday, December 04, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 25:6-10 6 On this mountain, for all peoples, Yahweh Sabaoth is preparing a banquet of rich food, a banquet of fine wines, of succulent food, of well-strained wines.7 On this mountain, he has destroyed the veil which used to veil all peoples, the pall...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, December 03, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 11:1-10 1 A shoot will spring from the stock of Jesse, a new shoot will grow from his roots.2 On him will rest the spirit of Yahweh, the spirit of wisdom and insight, the spirit of counsel and power, the spirit of knowledge and fear of Yahweh:3 his...
Daily Readings for Monday, December 02, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 2:1-5 1 The vision of Isaiah son of Amoz, concerning Judah and Jerusalem.2 It will happen in the final days that the mountain of Yahweh's house will rise higher than the mountains and tower above the heights. Then all the nations will stream to it,3...
Daily Readings for Sunday, December 01, 2024
Reading 1, Jeremiah 33:14-16 14 "Look, the days are coming, Yahweh declares, when I shall fulfil the promise of happiness I made to the House of Israel and the House of Judah:15 In those days and at that time, I shall make an upright Branch grow for David, who will do...
Daily Readings for Saturday, November 30, 2024
Reading 1, Romans 10:9-18 9 that if you declare with your mouth that Jesus is Lord, and if you believe with your heart that God raised him from the dead, then you will be saved.10 It is by believing with the heart that you are justified, and by making the declaration...
Daily Readings for Friday, November 29, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 20:1-4, 11-21:2 1 Then I saw an angel come down from heaven with the key of the Abyss in his hand and an enormous chain.2 He overpowered the dragon, that primeval serpent which is the devil and Satan, and chained him up for a thousand years.3 He...
Daily Readings for Thursday, November 28, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 18:1-2, 21-23; 19:1-3, 9 1 After this, I saw another angel come down from heaven, with great authority given to him; the earth shone with his glory.2 At the top of his voice he shouted, 'Babylon has fallen, Babylon the Great has fallen, and has...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 15:1-4 1 And I saw in heaven another sign, great and wonderful: seven angels were bringing the seven plagues that are the last of all, because they exhaust the anger of God.2 I seemed to be looking at a sea of crystal suffused with fire, and...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, November 26, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 14:14-19 14 Now in my vision I saw a white cloud and, sitting on it, one like a son of man with a gold crown on his head and a sharp sickle in his hand.15 Then another angel came out of the sanctuary and shouted at the top of his voice to the one...
Daily Readings for Monday, November 25, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 14:1-3, 4-5 1 Next in my vision I saw Mount Zion, and standing on it the Lamb who had with him a hundred and forty-four thousand people, all with his name and his Father's name written on their foreheads.2 I heard a sound coming out of heaven...