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Saint of the Day
St. John XXIII: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, October 11, 2023
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 Tuesday, October 10, 2023
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 Monday, October 09, 2023
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 Sunday, October 08, 2023
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 Saturday, October 07, 2023
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 Friday, October 06, 2023
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 Thursday, October 05, 2023
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 Wednesday, October 04, 2023
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 Tuesday, October 03, 2023
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 Monday, October 02, 2023
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 Monday, November 06, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 11:29-36 29 There is no change of mind on God's part about the gifts he has made or of his choice.30 Just as you were in the past disobedient to God but now you have been shown mercy, through their disobedience;31 so in the same way they are...
Daily Readings for Sunday, November 05, 2023
Reading 1, Malachi 1:14-2:2, 8-10 14 Cursed be the rogue who has a male in his flock but pays his vow by sacrificing a blemished animal to me! For I am a great king, says Yahweh Sabaoth, and among the nations my name inspires awe.'1 'And now, priests, this commandment...
Daily Readings for Saturday, November 04, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 11:1-2, 11-12, 25-29 1 What I am saying is this: is it possible that God abandoned his people? Out of the question! I too am an Israelite, descended from Abraham, of the tribe of Benjamin.2 God never abandoned his own people to whom, ages ago, he had...
Daily Readings for Friday, November 03, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 9:1-5 1 This is the truth and I am speaking in Christ, without pretence, as my conscience testifies for me in the Holy Spirit;2 there is great sorrow and unremitting agony in my heart:3 I could pray that I myself might be accursed and cut off from...
Daily Readings for Thursday, November 02, 2023
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Daily Readings for Wednesday, November 01, 2023
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Daily Readings for Tuesday, October 31, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 8:18-25 18 In my estimation, all that we suffer in the present time is nothing in comparison with the glory which is destined to be disclosed for us,19 for the whole creation is waiting with eagerness for the children of God to be revealed.20 It was...
Daily Readings for Monday, October 30, 2023
Reading 1, Romans 8:12-17 12 So then, my brothers, we have no obligation to human nature to be dominated by it.13 If you do live in that way, you are doomed to die; but if by the Spirit you put to death the habits originating in the body, you will have life.14 All who...
Daily Readings for Sunday, October 29, 2023
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Daily Readings for Saturday, October 28, 2023
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...