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Saint of the Day
St. Barnabas: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 11, 2024
All we know of Barnabas is to be found in the New Testament. A Jew, born in Cyprus and named Joseph, he sold his property, gave the proceeds to the Apostles, who gave him the name Barnabas, and lived in common with the earliest converts to Christianity in Jerusalem....
St. Getulius: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 10, 2024
Martyr with Amantius, Caerealis, and Primitivus. He was the husband of St. Symphorosa. An officer in the Roman army, he resigned when he became a Christian and returned to his estates near Tivoli, Italy. There he converted Caerealis, an imperial legate sent to arrest...
St. Ephrem: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 09, 2024
"I was born in the way of truth: though my childhood was unaware of the greatness of the benefit, I knew it when trial came." Ephrem (or Eprhaim) the Syrian left us hundreds of hymns and poems on the faith that inflamed and inspired the whole Church, but few facts...
St. William of York: Saint of the Day for Saturday, June 08, 2024
St. William of York, Bishop (Feast day is June 8th). William of York was the son of Count Herbert, treasurer to Henry I. His mother Emma, was the half-sister of King William. Young William became treasurer of the church of York at an early age and was elected...
St. Willibald: Saint of the Day for Friday, June 07, 2024
Bishop and missionary. A native of Wessex, England, he was the brother of Sts. Winebald and Walburga and was related through his mother to the great St. Boniface. After studying in a monastery in Waitham, in Hampshire, he went on a pilgrimage to Rome (c. 722) with his...
St. Norbert: Saint of the Day for Thursday, June 06, 2024
St. Norbert was born at Xanten in the Rhineland, about the year 1080. The early part of his life was devoted to the world and its pleasures. He entered upon the ecclesiastical state in a worldly spirit. The thunderstorm had boiled up suddenly as Norbert was out...
St. Boniface of Mainz: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, June 05, 2024
Winfrith had expected to return to England from Friesland (in what is now Holland) in triumph. He had left the land where he was a respected scholar, teacher, and priest because he was convinced he was called to missionary work. He had argued and pestered his abbot...
St. Francis Caracciolo: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, June 04, 2024
Founder of the Minor Clerks Regular with St. John Augustine Adorno. He was born in 1563, a member of a noble Neapolitan family. Though he had a rare skin disease, much like leprosy, Francis became a priest, at which time his skin disease disappeared. In 1588, he...
St. Charles Lwanga and Companions: Saint of the Day for Monday, June 03, 2024
For those of us who think that the faith and zeal of the early Christians died out as the Church grew more safe and powerful through the centuries, the martyrs of Uganda are a reminder that persecution of Christians continues in modern times, even to the present day....
Sts. Marcellinus and Peter: Saint of the Day for Sunday, June 02, 2024
Though we know very little about these two martyrs under Diocletian, there is no question that the early church venerated them. Evidence of the respect in which they were held are the basilica Constantine built over their tombs and the presence of their names in the...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, July 07, 2024
Reading 1, Ezekiel 2:2-5 2 As he said these words the spirit came into me and put me on my feet, and I heard him speaking to me.3 He said, 'Son of man, I am sending you to the Israelites, to the rebels who have rebelled against me. They and their ancestors have been...
Daily Readings for Saturday, July 06, 2024
Reading 1, Amos 9:11-15 11 On that Day, I shall rebuild the tottering hut of David, make good the gaps in it, restore its ruins and rebuild it as it was in the days of old,12 for them to be master of what is left of Edom and of all the nations once called mine -Yahweh...
Daily Readings for Friday, July 05, 2024
Reading 1, Amos 8:4-6, 9-12 4 Listen to this, you who crush the needy and reduce the oppressed to nothing,5 you who say, 'When will New Moon be over so that we can sell our corn, and Sabbath, so that we can market our wheat? Then, we can make the bushel-measure...
Daily Readings for Thursday, July 04, 2024
Reading 1, Amos 7:10-17 10 Amaziah the priest of Bethel then sent word to Jeroboam king of Israel as follows, 'Amos is plotting against you in the heart of the House of Israel; the country cannot tolerate his speeches.11 For this is what Amos says, "Jeroboam is going...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, July 03, 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...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, July 02, 2024
Reading 1, Amos 3:1-8; 4:11-12 1 Listen, Israelites, to this prophecy which Yahweh pronounces against you, against the whole family which I brought up from Egypt:2 You alone have I intimately known of all the families of earth, that is why I shall punish you for all...
Daily Readings for Monday, July 01, 2024
Reading 1, Amos 2:6-10, 13-16 6 Yahweh says this: For the three crimes, the four crimes of Israel, I have made my decree and will not relent: because they have sold the upright for silver and the poor for a pair of sandals,7 because they have crushed the heads of the...
Daily Readings for Sunday, June 30, 2024
Daily Reading for Sunday June 30, 2024 Reading 1, Wisdom 1:13-15,2:23-24Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 30:2, 4, 5-6, 11, 12, 13Gospel, Mark 5:21-43Reading 2, Second Corinthians 8:7, 9, 13-15 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Wisdom...
Daily Readings for Saturday, June 29, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 12:1-11 1 It was about this time that King Herod started persecuting certain members of the church.2 He had James the brother of John beheaded,3 and when he saw that this pleased the Jews he went on to arrest Peter as well.4 As it was during the days...
Daily Readings for Friday, June 28, 2024
Reading 1, Second Kings 25:1-12 1 In the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, on the tenth day of the month, Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon advanced on Jerusalem with his entire army; he pitched camp in front of the city and threw up earthworks round it.2 The...