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Saint of the Day
St. John of God: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 08, 2024
From the time he was eight to the day he died, John followed every impulse of his heart. The challenge for him was to rush to follow the promptings of the Holy Spirit gave him, not his own human temptations. But unlike many who act impulsively, when John made a...
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity: Saint of the Day for Thursday, March 07, 2024
Sts. Perpetua and Felicity were Christian martyrs who lived during the early persecution of the Church in Africa by the Emperor Severus. With details concerning the lives of many early martyrs unclear and often based on legend, we are fortunate to have the actual...
St. Colette: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, March 06, 2024
Colette was the daughter of a carpenter named DeBoilet at Corby Abbey in Picardy, France. She was born on January 13, christened Nicolette, and called Colette. Orphaned at seventeen, she distributed her inheritance to the poor. She became a Franciscan tertiary, and...
St. John Joseph of the Cross: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, March 05, 2024
St. John Joseph of the Cross was born about the middle of the seventeenth century in the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. From his childhood he was the model of virtue, and in his sixteenth year he entered the Franciscan Order of the Strictest Observance, or...
St. Casimir: Saint of the Day for Monday, March 04, 2024
Casimir grew up in a world where his life was not his own. As a prince of Poland, the second son of King Casimir IV and Elizabeth of Austria, his life was scheduled to cement his father's authority and increase Poland's power. Casimir realized from an early age that...
St. Katharine Drexel: Saint of the Day for Sunday, March 03, 2024
St. Katharine Drexel is the second American-born saint to be canonized by the Catholic Church. This amazing woman was an heiress to a large bequest who became a religious sister and a brilliant educator. Katherine was born in Philadelphia on November 26, 1858, the...
Bl. Charles the Good: Saint of the Day for Saturday, March 02, 2024
In 1086, St. Canute, King of Denmark and father of Blessed Charles the Good, was slain in St. Alban's Church, Odence. Charles who was only a few years old was taken by his mother to the court of Robert, Count of Flanders, his maternal grandfather. When he grew up, he...
St. David: Saint of the Day for Friday, March 01, 2024
According to tradition, St. David was the son of King Sant of South Wales and St. Non. He was ordained a priest and later studied under St. Paulinus. Later, he was involved in missionary work and founded a number of monasteries. The monastery he founded at Menevia in...
St. Aubin: Saint of the Day for Thursday, February 29, 2024
Albinus, also known as Aubin, entered the monastery of Tincillac when a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529. He was known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in...
St. Hilary, Pope: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, February 28, 2024
Pope from 461-468 and guardian of Church unity. He was born in Sardinia, Italy, and was a papal legate to the Robber Council of Ephesus in 449, barely escaping with his life from this affair. Hilary was used by Pope St. Leo I the Great on many assignments. When Leo...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Thursday, April 04, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 3:11-26 11 Everyone came running towards them in great excitement, to the Portico of Solomon, as it is called, where the man was still clinging to Peter and John.12 When Peter saw the people he addressed them, 'Men of Israel, why are you so surprised...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, April 03, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 3:1-10 1 Once, when Peter and John were going up to the Temple for the prayers at the ninth hour,2 it happened that there was a man being carried along. He was a cripple from birth; and they used to put him down every day near the Temple entrance...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, April 02, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 2:36-41 36 'For this reason the whole House of Israel can be certain that the Lord and Christ whom God has made is this Jesus whom you crucified.'37 Hearing this, they were cut to the heart and said to Peter and the other apostles, 'What are we to do,...
Daily Readings for Monday, April 01, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 2:14, 22-32 14 Then Peter stood up with the Eleven and addressed them in a loud voice: 'Men of Judaea, and all you who live in Jerusalem, make no mistake about this, but listen carefully to what I say.22 'Men of Israel, listen to what I am going to...
Daily Readings for Sunday, March 31, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 10:34, 37-43 34 Then Peter addressed them, 'I now really understand', he said, 'that God has no favourites,37 You know what happened all over Judaea, how Jesus of Nazareth began in Galilee, after John had been preaching baptism.38 God had anointed him...
Daily Readings for Saturday, March 30, 2024
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Daily Readings for Friday, March 29, 2024
Daily Reading for Friday March 29, 2024 Reading 1, Isaiah 52:13-53:12Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 31:2, 6, 12-13, 15-16, 17, 25Gospel, John 18:1-19:42Reading 2, Hebrews 4:14-16; 5:7-9 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Isaiah...
Daily Readings for Thursday, March 28, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 61:1-3, 6, 8-9 1 The spirit of Lord Yahweh is on me for Yahweh has anointed me. He has sent me to bring the news to the afflicted, to soothe the broken-hearted,2 to proclaim liberty to captives, release to those in prison, to proclaim a year of...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, March 27, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 50:4-9 4 Lord Yahweh has given me a disciple's tongue, for me to know how to give a word of comfort to the weary. Morning by morning he makes my ear alert to listen like a disciple.5 Lord Yahweh has opened my ear and I have not resisted, I have not...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, March 26, 2024
Reading 1, Isaiah 49:1-6 1 Coasts and islands, listen to me, pay attention, distant peoples. Yahweh called me when I was in the womb, before my birth he had pronounced my name.2 He made my mouth like a sharp sword, he hid me in the shadow of his hand. He made me into...