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Saint of the Day
St. Peter Claver: Saint of the Day for Monday, September 09, 2024
St. Peter Claver was born at Verdu, Catalonia, Spain, in 1580, of impoverished parents descended from ancient and distinguished families. He studied at the Jesuit college of Barcelona, entered the Jesuit novitiate at Tarragona in 1602 and took his final vows on August...
St. Adrian: Saint of the Day for Sunday, September 08, 2024
According to legend Adrian was a pagan officer at the imperial court of Nicomedia. Impressed by the courage of a group of Christians who were being tortured, he declared himself a Christian and was imprisoned with them and suffered excruciating tortures before he was...
St. Cloud: Saint of the Day for Saturday, September 07, 2024
On the death of Clovis, King of the Franks, in the year 511 his kingdom was divided between his four sons, of whom the second was Clodomir. Thirteen years later he was killed fighting against his cousin, Gondomar, leaving three sons to share his dominions. The...
St. Eleutherius: Saint of the Day for Friday, September 06, 2024
A wonderful simplicity and spirit of compunction were the distinguishing virtues of this holy man. He was chosen abbot of St. Mark's near Spoleto, and favored by God with the gift of miracles. A child who was possessed by the devil, being delivered by being educated...
St. Teresa of Calcutta: Saint of the Day for Thursday, September 05, 2024
The remarkable woman who would be known as Mother Teresa began life named Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu. Born on August 26, 1910 in Skopje, she was the youngest child born to Nikola and Drane Bojaxhiu. Receiving her First Communion at the age of five, she was confirmed in...
St. Rosalia: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, September 04, 2024
St. Rosalia, daughter of Sinibald, Lord of Roses and Quisquina, was a descendant of the great Charlemagne. She was born at Palermo in Sicily. In her youth, her heart turned from earthly vanities to God. She left her home and took up her abode in a cave, on the walls...
Pope Saint Gregory the Great: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Pope Saint Gregory I, also known as the Great, was the Pope of the Catholic Church between 590 and 604 AD. Gregory was born around 540 in Rome. The exact date of his birth is unknown. Although the Western Roman Empire had collapsed long before his birth, many ancient...
St. Ingrid of Sweden: Saint of the Day for Monday, September 02, 2024
Born in Skänninge, Sweden, in the 13th century, St. Ingrid lived under the spiritual direction of Peter of Dacia, a Dominican priest. She was the first Dominican nun in Sweden and in 1281 she founded the first Dominican cloister there, called St. Martin's in...
St. Giles, Abbot: Saint of the Day for Sunday, September 01, 2024
St. Giles, Abbot (Patron of Physically Disabled) Feast day - September 1 St. Giles is said to have been a seventh century Athenian of noble birth. His piety and learning made him so conspicuous and an object of such admiration in his own country that, dreading praise...
St. Raymond Nonnatus: Saint of the Day for Saturday, August 31, 2024
Raymond was born at Portella, Catalonia, Spain. He was delivered by caesarean operation when his mother died in childbirth. Hence his name non natus (not born). He joined the Mercedarians under St. Peter Nolasco at Barcelona. He succeeded Peter as chief ransomer and...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Saturday, October 05, 2024
Daily Reading for Saturday October 5, 2024 Reading 1, Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-16Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 119:66, 71, 75, 91, 125, 130Gospel, Luke 10:17-24 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Job 42:1-3, 5-6, 12-16 1 This was the...
Daily Readings for Friday, October 04, 2024
Reading 1, Job 38:1, 12-21; 40:3-5 1 Then from the heart of the tempest Yahweh gave Job his answer. He said:12 Have you ever in your life given orders to the morning or sent the dawn to its post,13 to grasp the earth by its edges and shake the wicked out of it?14 She...
Daily Readings for Thursday, October 03, 2024
Reading 1, Job 19:21-27 21 Pity me, pity me, my friends, since I have been struck by the hand of God.22 Must you persecute me just as God does, and give my body no peace?23 Will no one let my words be recorded, inscribed on some monument24 with iron chisel and...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, October 02, 2024
Reading 1, Exodus 23:20-23 20 'Look, I am sending an angel to precede you, to guard you as you go and bring you to the place that I have prepared.21 Revere him and obey what he says. Do not defy him: he will not forgive any wrong-doing on your part, for my name is in...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 01, 2024
Reading 1, Job 3:1-3, 11-17, 20-23 1 In the end it was Job who broke the silence and cursed the day of his birth.2 This is what he said:3 Perish the day on which I was born and the night that told of a boy conceived.11 Why was I not still-born, or why did I not perish...
Daily Readings for Monday, September 30, 2024
Reading 1, Job 1:6-22 6 One day when the sons of God came to attend on Yahweh, among them came Satan.7 So Yahweh said to Satan, 'Where have you been?' 'Prowling about on earth,' he answered, 'roaming around there.'8 So Yahweh asked him, 'Did you pay any attention to...
Daily Readings for Sunday, September 29, 2024
Daily Reading for Sunday September 29, 2024 Reading 1, Numbers 11:25-29Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 19:8, 10, 12-13, 14Gospel, Mark 9:38-43, 45, 47-48Reading 2, James 5:1-6 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Numbers 11:25-29 25...
Daily Readings for Saturday, September 28, 2024
Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 11:9-12:8 9 Young man, enjoy yourself while you are young, make the most of the days of your youth, follow the prompting and desire of heart and eye, but remember, God will call you to account for everything.10 Rid your heart of indignation,...
Daily Readings for Friday, September 27, 2024
Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 3:1-11 1 There is a season for everything, a time for every occupation under heaven:2 A time for giving birth, a time for dying; a time for planting, a time for uprooting what has been planted.3 A time for killing, a time for healing; a time...
Daily Readings for Thursday, September 26, 2024
Reading 1, Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 2 Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile!3 What profit can we show for all our toil, toiling under the sun?4 A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever.5 The sun rises, the sun...