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Saint of the Day
Bl. Emmanuel Ruiz: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 10, 2023
Martyr with eleven companions in Lebanon. A Spanish Franciscan, Emmanuel and the others were caught up in the rising of the Druses in Lebanon. The Franciscan community, eight in number, and three Maronite laymen were slain by the Islamic rebels. He was beatified in...
St. Veronica Giuliani: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 09, 2023
Capuchin mystic who had many spiritual gifis. A native of Binasco, near Milan, Italy, born in 1660, she entered the Capuchins atCitttidi Castello, Umbria, in 1677. She remained there for the rest of her life and served as novice mistress for thirty-four years. A...
St. Grimbald: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 08, 2023
Benedictine abbot also called Grimwald, invited to England by King Alfred in 885. Grimbald arrived in England and declined the see of Canterbury, preferring to remain a monk. He became the abbot of New Minster Abbey at Winchester appointed by King Edward the Elder....
Bl. Ralph Milner: Saint of the Day for Friday, July 07, 2023
English martyr. He was born at Stocksteads, Hampshire, and was a convert. He was arrested the day he received his first Communion. A husbands man by trade, Ralph was allowed a leave from prison and aided priests and Catholics. He was executed at Winchester on July by...
St. Maria Goretti: Saint of the Day for Thursday, July 06, 2023
Born on October 16 1890 in Corinaldo, in the Ancona Province in Italy, her farmworker father moved his family to Ferrier di Conca, near Anzio. When he died of malaria, Maria's mother had to struggle to feed her children. Maria's mother, brothers, and sisters worked in...
St. Anthony Mary Zaccaria: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, July 05, 2023
Cofounder of the Barnabites. Born in 1502 in Cremona, Italy, Anthony became a medical doctor. In 1528 he was ordained a priest and cofounded the Barnabites, the religious congregation so called because it was headquartered in St. Barnabas Monastery in Milan. The...
St. Elizabeth of Portugal: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, July 04, 2023
Elizabeth was a Spanish princess who was given in marriage to King Denis of Portugal at the age of twelve. She was very beautiful and very lovable. She was also very devout, and went to Mass every day. Elizabeth was a holy wife, but although her husband was fond of...
St. Thomas: Saint of the Day for Monday, July 03, 2023
St. Thomas was born a Jew and was called to be one of the twelve Apostles. His birth and death dates are unknown, but his feast day is celebrated July 3. He lived before the formal establishment of the Catholic Church but is recognized as the patron saint of...
St. Bernardino Realino: Saint of the Day for Sunday, July 02, 2023
St. Bernardino Realino was born into a noble family of Capri, Italy in 1530. After receiving a thorough and devout Christian education at the hands of his mother, he went on to study medicine at the University of Bologna, but after three years he switched to law and...
St. Junipero Serra: Saint of the Day for Saturday, July 01, 2023
Junípero Serra, originally named Miguel José, was born on November 24, 1713, in Petra, Majorca, Spain. His parents, Antonio Nadal Serra and Margarita Rosa Ferrer, were farmers. Baptized at St. Peter's Church in Petra on the same day, Junípero would go on to become a...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, August 03, 2023
Reading 1, Exodus 40:16-21, 34-38 16 Moses did this; he did exactly as Yahweh had ordered him.17 On the first day of the first month in the second year the Dwelling was erected.18 Moses erected the Dwelling. He fixed its sockets, set up its frames, put its crossbars...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, August 02, 2023
Reading 1, Exodus 34:29-35 29 When Moses came down from Mount Sinai with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, as he was coming down the mountain, Moses did not know that the skin of his face was radiant because he had been talking to him.30 And when Aaron...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, August 01, 2023
Reading 1, Exodus 33:7-11; 34:5-9, 28 7 Moses used to take the Tent and pitch it outside the camp, far away from the camp. He called it the Tent of Meeting. Anyone who wanted to consult Yahweh would go out to the Tent of Meeting, outside the camp.8 Whenever Moses went...
Daily Readings for Monday, July 31, 2023
Reading 1, Exodus 32:15-24, 30-34 15 Moses turned and came down the mountain with the two tablets of the Testimony in his hands, tablets inscribed on both sides, inscribed on the front and on the back.16 The tablets were the work of God, and the writing on them was...
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 30, 2023
Daily Reading for Sunday July 30, 2023 Reading 1, First Kings 3:5, 7-12Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:57, 72, 76-77, 127-128, 129-130Gospel, Matthew 13:44-52Reading 2, Romans 8:28-30 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, First Kings...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 29, 2023
Gospel, John 11:19-27 19 and many Jews had come to Martha and Mary to comfort them about their brother.20 When Martha heard that Jesus was coming she went to meet him. Mary remained sitting in the house.21 Martha said to Jesus, 'Lord, if you had been here, my brother...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 28, 2023
Reading 1, Exodus 20:1-17 1 Then God spoke all these words. He said,2 'I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.3 'You shall have no other gods to rival me.4 'You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 27, 2023
Daily Reading for Thursday July 27, 2023 Reading 1, Exodus 19:1-2, 9-11, 16-20Responsorial Psalm, Daniel 3:52, 53, 54, 55, 56Gospel, Matthew 13:10-17 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings We ask you, humbly: don't scroll away. Hi readers, it...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 26, 2023
Reading 1, Sirach 44:1, 10-15 1 Next let us praise illustrious men, our ancestors in their successive generations.10 But here is a list of illustrious men whose good works have not been forgotten.11 In their descendants they find a rich inheritance, their posterity.12...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 25, 2023
Reading 1, Second Corinthians 4:7-15 7 But we hold this treasure in pots of earthenware, so that the immensity of the power is God's and not our own.8 We are subjected to every kind of hardship, but never distressed; we see no way out but we never despair;9 we are...