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Saint of the Day
St. Clare of Montefalco: Saint of the Day for Saturday, August 17, 2024
Clare was born at Montefalco, Italy, around 1268. As a young woman she joined a convent of Franciscan tertiaries. This group established Holy Cross Convent at Montefalco in 1290, adopting the Rule of St. Augustine. Clare's sister Joan was the abbess of this community,...
St. Stephen the Great: Saint of the Day for Friday, August 16, 2024
St. Stephen the Great (977-1038), was the son of the Magyar chieftain Geza, Stephen succeeded him as leader in 997. Already raised a Christian, in 996 he wed the daughter of Duke Henry II of Bavaria and devoted much of his reign to the promotion of the Christian...
St. Alipius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, August 15, 2024
Bishop and companion of St. Augustine. He was born in Tagaste, North Africa, and was raised as a friend of St. Augustine. He went to Rome to study law and became a magistrate there. When Augustine arrived in Rome, Alipius resigned his post and accompanied him to...
St. Maximilian Kolbe: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, August 14, 2024
St. Maximilian Kolbe was born as Raymund Kolbe on January 8, 1894, in the Kingdom of Poland, part of the Russian Empire. He was a Polish Conventual Franciscan friar and a martyr in the German death Camp of Auschwitz during World War II. St. Maximilian Kolbe was very...
St. Hippolytus: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, August 13, 2024
Martyr of Rome, with Concordia and other companions, he is a controversial figure who censured Pope St. Callistus I. Hippolytus was slain in Sardinia where he had been exiled for being elected as an antipope, the first in the history of the Church. He was reconciled...
St. Michael My: Saint of the Day for Monday, August 12, 2024
Martyr of Vietnam. He was the mayor of a town in Vietnam when the persecution of Christians started. Michael was martyred with Blessed Anthony Dich, his son-in-law, and with St. James Nam. He was canonized in 1988 by Pope John Paul II. Excellent content provided by...
St. Clare of Assisi: Saint of the Day for Sunday, August 11, 2024
St. Clare of Assisi was born in Assisi on July 16, 1194, as Chiara Offreduccio, the beautiful eldest daughter of Favorino Sciffi, Count of Sasso-Rosso and his wife Ortolana. Tradition says her father was a wealthy representative of an ancient Roman family and her...
St. Lawrence, Deacon and Martyr: Saint of the Day for Saturday, August 10, 2024
The year was 258 A.D. It was a difficult beginning for what would become the First Christian Millennium. Hostility against the early followers of Jesus Christ was growing. The barbarism and severity of pagan Rome had begun to reach a fever pitch. It would soon lead to...
St. Edith Stein: Saint of the Day for Friday, August 09, 2024
Saint Teresa Benedicta of the Cross (Edith Stein)Virgin and Martyr Edith Stein, born in 1891 in Breslau, Poland, was the youngest child of a large Jewish family. She was an outstanding student and was well versed in philosophy with a particular interest in...
St. Dominic: Saint of the Day for Thursday, August 08, 2024
Saint Dominic was born in Caleruega, Spain in 1170. His parents were members of the Spanish nobility and related to the ruling family. His father was Felix Guzman, and was the royal warden of the village. His mother, Bl. Joan of Aza, was a holy woman in her own right....
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Wednesday, September 11, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 7:25-31 25 About people remaining virgin, I have no directions from the Lord, but I give my own opinion as a person who has been granted the Lord's mercy to be faithful.26 Well then, because of the stress which is weighing upon us, the...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, September 10, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 6:1-11 1 Is one of you with a complaint against another so brazen as to seek judgement from sinners and not from God's holy people?2 Do you not realise that the holy people of God are to be the judges of the world? And if the world is to...
Daily Readings for Monday, September 09, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 58:6-11 6 Is not this the sort of fast that pleases me: to break unjust fetters, to undo the thongs of the yoke, to let the oppressed go free, and to break all yokes?7 Is it not sharing your food with the hungry, and sheltering the homeless poor; if...
Daily Readings for Sunday, September 08, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 35:4-7 4 and say to the faint-hearted, 'Be strong! Do not be afraid. Here is your God, vengeance is coming, divine retribution; he is coming to save you.'5 Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, the ears of the deaf unsealed,6 then the lame will...
Daily Readings for Saturday, September 07, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 4:9-15 9 For it seems to me that God has put us apostles on show right at the end, like men condemned to death: we have been exhibited as a spectacle to the whole universe, both angelic and human.10 Here we are, fools for Christ's sake,...
Daily Readings for Friday, September 06, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 4:1-5 1 People should think of us as Christ's servants, stewards entrusted with the mysteries of God.2 In such a matter, what is expected of stewards is that each one should be found trustworthy.3 It is of no importance to me how you or...
Daily Readings for Thursday, September 05, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 3:18-23 18 There is no room for self-delusion. Any one of you who thinks he is wise by worldly standards must learn to be a fool in order to be really wise.19 For the wisdom of the world is folly to God. As scripture says: He traps the...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, September 04, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 3:1-9 1 And so, brothers, I was not able to talk to you as spiritual people; I had to talk to you as people still living by your natural inclinations, still infants in Christ;2 I fed you with milk and not solid food, for you were not yet...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, September 03, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 2:10-16 10 to us, though, God has given revelation through the Spirit, for the Spirit explores the depths of everything, even the depths of God.11 After all, is there anyone who knows the qualities of anyone except his own spirit, within...
Daily Readings for Monday, September 02, 2024
Reading 1, First Corinthians 2:1-5 1 Now when I came to you, brothers, I did not come with any brilliance of oratory or wise argument to announce to you the mystery of God.2 I was resolved that the only knowledge I would have while I was with you was knowledge of...