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Saint of the Day
St. Buonfiglio Monaldo: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 12, 2024
He was one of seven Florentines who had joined the Confraternity of the Blessed Virgin (the Laudesi) in a particularly lax period in the city's history and who were inspired by a vision on the feast of the Assumption to take up a life of solitude and prayer. After...
St. Paschal: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 11, 2024
Paschal was the son of Bonosus, a Roman. He studied at the Lateran, was named head of St. Stephen's monastery, which housed pilgrims to Rome, and was elected Pope to succeed Pope Stephen IV (V) on the day Stephen died, January 25, 817. Emperor Louis the Pious agreed...
St. Scholastica: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 10, 2024
St. Scholastica, sister of St. Benedict, consecrated her life to God from her earliest youth. After her brother went to Monte Cassino, where he established his famous monastery, she took up her abode in the neighborhood at Plombariola, where she founded and governed a...
St. Apollonia: Saint of the Day for Friday, February 09, 2024
St. Apollonia, who died in the year 249, was martyred for not renouncing her faith during the reign of Emperor Philip. The account of the life of St. Apollonia was written by St. Dionysius to Fabian, Bishop of Antioch. Apollonia had all her teeth knocked out after...
St. Jerome Emiliani: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 08, 2024
Jerome Emiliani lay chained in the dark dirty dungeon. Only a short time before he had been a military commander for Venice in charge of a fortress. He didn't care much about God because he didn't need him -- he had his own strength and the strength of his soldiers...
St. Moses: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 07, 2024
Arab hermit and bishop who is called Â?the Apostle of the Saracens.Â? He lived in the desert regions of Syria and Egypt, caring for the local nomadic tribes. When the Romans imposed peace upon the Saracens, Queen Mavia, the Saracen ruler, demanded that Moses be...
St. Paul Miki: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, February 06, 2024
Paul was the son of a Japanese military leader. He was born at Tounucumada, Japan, was educated at the Jesuit college of Anziquiama, joined the Jesuits in 1580, and became known for his eloquent preaching. He was crucified on Februay 5 with twenty-five other Catholics...
St. Agatha: Saint of the Day for Monday, February 05, 2024
St. Agatha, also known as Agatha of Sicily, is one of the most highly venerated virgin martyrs of the Catholic Church. It is believed that she was born around 231 in either Catania or Palermo, Sicily to a rich and noble family. From her very early years, the notably...
St. Joan of Valois: Saint of the Day for Sunday, February 04, 2024
Joan of Valois, 1464 - 1505, was the second daughter of Louis X1, King of France, and Charlotte of Savoy, She was born on April 23, 1464. At the ge of two months she was betrothed to Louis, Duke of Orleans, and the marriage took place in 1476. There is no doubt that...
St. Blaise: Saint of the Day for Saturday, February 03, 2024
Saint Blaise was the bishop of Sebastea and a doctor. The first known record of the saint's life comes from the medical writings of Aëtius Amidenus, where he is recorded as helping with patients suffering from objects stuck in their throat. Many of the miraculous...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 10, 2024
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Daily Readings for Saturday, March 09, 2024
Reading 1, Hosea 6:1-6 1 Come, let us return to Yahweh. He has rent us and he will heal us; he has struck us and he will bind up our wounds;2 after two days he will revive us, on the third day he will raise us up and we shall live in his presence.3 Let us know, let us...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 08, 2024
Reading 1, Hosea 14:2-10 2 Israel, come back to Yahweh your God your guilt was the cause of your downfall.3 Provide yourself with words and come back to Yahweh. Say to him, 'Take all guilt away and give us what is good, instead of bulls we will dedicate to you our...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 07, 2024
Reading 1, Jeremiah 7:23-28 23 My one command to them was this: Listen to my voice, then I will be your God and you shall be my people. In everything, follow the way that I mark out for you, and you shall prosper.24 But they did not listen, they did not pay attention;...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 4:1, 5-9 1 'And now, Israel, listen to the laws and customs which I am teaching you today, so that, by observing them, you may survive to enter and take possession of the country which Yahweh, God of your ancestors, is giving you.5 Look: as...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 05, 2024
Reading 1, Daniel 3:25, 34-43 25 Azariah stood in the heart of the fire, praying aloud thus:34 Do not abandon us for ever, for the sake of your name; do not repudiate your covenant,35 do not withdraw your favour from us, for the sake of Abraham, your friend, of Isaac,...
Daily Readings for Monday, March 04, 2024
Reading 1, Second Kings 5:1-15 1 Naaman, army commander to the king of Aram, was a man who enjoyed his master's respect and favour, since through him Yahweh had granted victory to the Aramaeans.2 But the man suffered from a virulent skin-disease. Now, on one of their...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 03, 2024
Reading 1, Exodus 20:1-17 1 Then God spoke all these words. He said,2 'I am Yahweh your God who brought you out of Egypt, where you lived as slaves.3 'You shall have no other gods to rival me.4 'You shall not make yourself a carved image or any likeness of anything in...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 02, 2024
Reading 1, Micah 7:14-15, 18-20 14 With shepherd's crook lead your people to pasture, the flock that is your heritage, living confined in a forest with meadow land all round. Let them graze in Bashan and Gilead as in the days of old!15 As in the days when you came out...
Daily Readings for Friday, March 01, 2024
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