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Saint of the Day
St. John XXIII: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 11, 2024
The man who would be Pope John XXIII was born in the small village of Sotto il Monte in Italy, on November 25, 1881. He was the fourth of fourteen children born to poor parents who made their living by sharecropping. Named Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the baby would...
St. Francis Borgia: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 10, 2024
Francis was a young nobleman at the court of the King of Spain. He became a Duke when he was only thirty-three and lived a happy, peaceful life with his wife Eleanor and their eight children. But unlike so many other powerful nobles, Francis was a perfect Christian...
Sts. Denis, Rusticus, and Eleutherius: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 09, 2024
The first mention we have of these three martyrs who died around 258 A.D. comes in the sixth century in the writings of Saint Gregory of Tours. Denis (or Dionysius as he is also called) is the most famous of the three. Born and raised in Italy, he was sent as a...
St. Pelagia: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, October 08, 2024
Pelagia, more often called Margaret, on account of the magnificence of the pearls for which she had so often sold herself, was an actress of Antioch, equally celebrated for her beauty, her wealth and the disorder ofher life. During a synod at Antioch, she passed...
St. Artaldus: Saint of the Day for Monday, October 07, 2024
Artaldus (also called Arthaud) was born in the castle of Sothonod in Savoy. At the age of eighteen, he went to the court of Duke Amadeus III, but a year or two after, he became a Carthusian at Portes. After many years, being a priest and an experienced and holy...
St. Bruno: Saint of the Day for Sunday, October 06, 2024
Bruno was born in Cologne of the prominent Hartenfaust family. He studied at the Cathedral school at Rheims, and on his return to Cologne about 1055, was ordained and became a Canon at St. Cunibert's. He returned to Rheims in 1056 as professor of theology, became head...
St. Faustina Kowalska: Saint of the Day for Saturday, October 05, 2024
Saint Maria Faustina Kowalska of the Blessed Sacrament was born as Helena Kowalska, in Glogowiec, Leczyca County, north-west of LĂłdz in Poland on August 25, 1905. She was the third of 10 children to a poor and religious family. Faustina first felt a calling to the...
St. Francis of Assisi: Saint of the Day for Friday, October 04, 2024
Founder of the Franciscan Order, born at Assisi in Umbria, in 1181. In 1182, Pietro Bernardone returned from a trip to France to find out his wife had given birth to a son. Far from being excited or apologetic because he'd been gone, Pietro was furious because she'd...
St. Ewald & Ewald: Saint of the Day for Thursday, October 03, 2024
Martyred Northumbrian brothers, one called "the Fair" and one called "the Dark", companions of St. Willibrord. From Northumbria, they were educated in Ireland. These priests of the Benedictine Order went with Willibrord to Frisia, Netherlands. They were martyred...
St. Leger: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Leger was raised at the court of King Clotaire II and by his uncle, Bishop Didon of Poitiers. Leger was made archdeacon by Didon, was ordained, and in about 651, became abbot of Maxentius Abbey, where he introduced the Rule of St. Benedict. He served Queen Regent St....
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Wednesday, November 06, 2024
Reading 1, Philippians 2:12-18 12 So, my dear friends, you have always been obedient; your obedience must not be limited to times when I am present. Now that I am absent it must be more in evidence, so work out your salvation in fear and trembling.13 It is God who,...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, November 05, 2024
Reading 1, Philippians 2:5-11 5 Make your own the mind of Christ Jesus:6 Who, being in the form of God, did not count equality with God something to be grasped.7 But he emptied himself, taking the form of a slave, becoming as human beings are; and being in every way...
Daily Readings for Monday, November 04, 2024
Reading 1, Philippians 2:1-4 1 So if in Christ there is anything that will move you, any incentive in love, any fellowship in the Spirit, any warmth or sympathy -- I appeal to you,2 make my joy complete by being of a single mind, one in love, one in heart and one in...
Daily Readings for Sunday, November 03, 2024
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 6:2-6 2 And hence, if, throughout your lives, you fear Yahweh your God and keep all his laws and commandments, which I am laying down for you today, you will live long, you and your child and your grandchild.3 Listen then, Israel, keep and...
Daily Readings for Saturday, November 02, 2024
Reading 1, Wisdom 3:1-9 1 But the souls of the upright are in the hands of God, and no torment can touch them.2 To the unenlightened, they appeared to die, their departure was regarded as disaster,3 their leaving us like annihilation; but they are at peace.4 If, as it...
Daily Readings for Friday, November 01, 2024
Reading 1, Revelation 7:2-4, 9-14 2 Then I saw another angel rising where the sun rises, carrying the seal of the living God; he called in a powerful voice to the four angels whose duty was to devastate land and sea,3 'Wait before you do any damage on land or at sea...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 31, 2024
Reading 1, Ephesians 6:10-20 10 Finally, grow strong in the Lord, with the strength of his power.11 Put on the full armour of God so as to be able to resist the devil's tactics.12 For it is not against human enemies that we have to struggle, but against the...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 30, 2024
Reading 1, Ephesians 6:1-9 1 Children, be obedient to your parents in the Lord -- that is what uprightness demands.2 The first commandment that has a promise attached to it is: Honour your father and your mother,3 and the promise is: so that you may have long life and...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 29, 2024
Reading 1, Ephesians 5:21-33 21 Be subject to one another out of reverence for Christ.22 Wives should be subject to their husbands as to the Lord,23 since, as Christ is head of the Church and saves the whole body, so is a husband the head of his wife;24 and as the...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 28, 2024
Reading 1, Ephesians 2:19-22 19 So you are no longer aliens or foreign visitors; you are fellow-citizens with the holy people of God and part of God's household.20 You are built upon the foundations of the apostles and prophets, and Christ Jesus himself is the...