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Saint of the Day
St. Agnes: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 21, 2021
St. Agnes of Rome was born in 291 AD and raised in a Christian family. Agnes was very beautiful and belonged to a wealthy family. Her hand in marriage was highly sought after, and she had many high ranking men chasing after her. However, Agnes made a promise to God...
St. Fabian: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
Eusebius, born just a few years after Fabian's death, tells us how Fabian came to Rome after Pope Anteros died in 236. A layperson, and not a very important one, he may have come for the same reason many still come to Rome today during a papal election: concern for...
St. Fillan: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Fillan, son of Feriach and St. Kentigerna, was also known as Foelan. He became a monk in his youth and accompanied his mother from Ireland to Scotland where he lived as a hermit near St. Andrew's monastery for many years, and then was elected abbot. He later resigned...
St. Volusian: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 18, 2021
Bishop of Tours, France. A senator at Tours, he was initially married, supposedly to a most unpleasant wife. Named bishop of the city in 488, he was forced to leave the see in 496 by the Arian Visigoths, and went to Spain. He died perhaps in Toulouse, or in Spain,...
St. Anthony the Abbot: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 17, 2021
Two Greek philosophers ventured out into the Egyptian desert to the mountain where Anthony lived. When they got there, Anthony asked them why they had come to talk to such a foolish man? He had reason to say that -- they saw before them a man who wore a skin, who...
St. Fursey: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 16, 2021
Irish monastic founder, the brother of Sts. Foillan and Ulan, praised by St. Bede. Fursey was born on the island of Inisguia en Lough Carri, IreÂland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
St. Paul the Hermit: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 15, 2021
Also known as Paul the First Hermit and Paul of Thebes, an Egyptian hermit and friend of St. Jerome. Born in Lower The baid, Egypt, he was left an orphan at about the age of fifteen and hid during the persecution of the Church under Emperor Traj anus Decius. At the...
St. Felix of Nola: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 14, 2021
Felix was the son of Hermias, a Syrian who had been a Roman soldier. He was born on his father's estate at Nola near Naples, Italy. On the death of his father, Felix distributed his inheritance to the poor, was ordained by Bishop St. Maximus of Nola, and became his...
St. Hilary of Poitiers: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 13, 2021
"They didn't know who they were." This is how Hilary summed up the problem with the Arian heretics of the fourth century. Hilary, on the other hand, knew very well who he was -- a child of a loving God who had inherited eternal life through belief in the Son of God....
St. Marguerite Bourgeoys: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 12, 2021
Marguerite had survived many threats in the twenty-six years she had been in wilderness of Canada. She had lived through Iroquois attacks, a fire that destroyed her small village, plagues on the ships that she took back and forth to France, but nothing threatened her...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 16, 2021
Daily Reading for Tuesday February 16, 2021 Reading 1, Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 29:1-2, 3-4, 8, 9-10Gospel, Mark 8:14-21 Reading 1, Genesis 6:5-8; 7:1-5, 10 5 Yahweh saw that human wickedness was great on earth and that human hearts contrived...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 15, 2021
Reading 1, Genesis 4:1-15, 25 1 The man had intercourse with his wife Eve, and she conceived and gave birth to Cain. 'I have acquired a man with the help of Yahweh,' she said.2 She gave birth to a second child, Abel, the brother of Cain. Now Abel became a shepherd and...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 14, 2021
Daily Reading for Sunday February 14, 2021 Reading 1, Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 11Gospel, Mark 1:40-45Reading 2, First Corinthians 10:31-11:1 Reading 1, Leviticus 13:1-2, 44-46 1 Yahweh said to Moses and Aaron,2 'If a swelling or...
Daily Readings for Saturday, February 13, 2021
Reading 1, Genesis 3:9-24 9 But Yahweh God called to the man. 'Where are you?' he asked.10 'I heard the sound of you in the garden,' he replied. 'I was afraid because I was naked, so I hid.'11 'Who told you that you were naked?' he asked. 'Have you been eating from...
Daily Readings for Friday, February 12, 2021
Daily Reading for Friday February 12, 2021 Reading 1, Genesis 3:1-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 32:1-2, 5, 6, 7Gospel, Mark 7:31-37 Reading 1, Genesis 3:1-8 1 Now, the snake was the most subtle of all the wild animals that Yahweh God had made. It asked the woman, 'Did...
Daily Readings for Thursday, February 11, 2021
Daily Reading for Thursday February 11, 2021 Reading 1, Genesis 2:18-25Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 128:1-2, 3, 4-5Gospel, Mark 7:24-30 Reading 1, Genesis 2:18-25 18 Yahweh God said, 'It is not right that the man should be alone. I shall make him a helper.'19 So from...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, February 10, 2021
Daily Reading for Wednesday February 10, 2021 Reading 1, Genesis 2:5-9, 15-17Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 104:1-2, 27-28, 29-30Gospel, Mark 7:14-23 Reading 1, Genesis 2:5-9, 15-17 5 there was as yet no wild bush on the earth nor had any wild plant yet sprung up, for...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, February 09, 2021
Daily Reading for Tuesday February 9, 2021 Reading 1, Genesis 1:20-2:4Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 8:4-5, 6-7, 8-9Gospel, Mark 7:1-13 Reading 1, Genesis 1:20-2:4 20 God said, 'Let the waters be alive with a swarm of living creatures, and let birds wing their way above...
Daily Readings for Monday, February 08, 2021
Reading 1, Genesis 1:1-19 1 In the beginning God created heaven and earth.2 Now the earth was a formless void, there was darkness over the deep, with a divine wind sweeping over the waters.3 God said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light.4 God saw that light was...
Daily Readings for Sunday, February 07, 2021
Daily Reading for Sunday February 7, 2021 Reading 1, Job 7:1-4, 6-7Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 147:1-2, 3-4, 5-6Gospel, Mark 1:29-39Reading 2, First Corinthians 9:16-19, 22-23 Reading 1, Job 7:1-4, 6-7 1 Is not human life on earth just conscript service? Do we not live...