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Saint of the Day
St. Genevieve: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 03, 2024
St. Genevieve was a fair and courageous peasant girl who was born around 422 in Nanterre, France, to a man named Severus and a woman named Gerontia. When Genevieve was only seven-years-old, St. Germanus, Bishop of Auxerre visited Nanterre on his way to Britain. While...
St. Basil the Great: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 02, 2024
St. Basil the Great was born at Caesarea of Cappadocia in 330. He was one of ten children of St. Basil the Elder and St. Emmelia. Several of his brothers and sisters are honored among the saints. He attended school in Caesarea, as well as Constantinople and Athens,...
Mary the Blessed Virgin: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 01, 2024
Mary, also known as St. Mary the Virgin, the Blessed Virgin Mary, Saint Mary, Mary Mother of God or the Virgin Mary is believed by many to be the greatest of all Christian saints. The Virgin Mother "was, after her Son, exalted by divine grace above all angels and...
St. Sylvester: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 31, 2023
St. Sylvester, born in Rome, was ordained by Pope St. Marcellinus during the peace that preceded the persecutions of Diocletian. He passed through those days of terror, witnessed the abdication of Diocletian and Maximian, and saw the triumph of Constantine in the year...
St. Anysia: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 30, 2023
Martyr of Greece. She was a wealthy woman of Salonika, in Thessaly, who used her personal funds to aid the poor. A soldier accosted her in the street and tried to drag her to a pagan sacrifice. Anysia resisted and was killed when the soldier attacked her with his...
St. Aileran: Saint of the Day for Friday, December 29, 2023
Monk, biographer, and scholar-also called Sapiens the Wise. Aileran was one of the most distinguished professors at the school of Clonard in Ireland. St. Finian welcomed Aileran to Clonard. In 650, Aileran became rector of Clonard, and was recognized as a classical...
St. Anthony the Hermit: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 28, 2023
Anthony was born about circa 468 at Valeria in Lower Pannonia. When he was eight years old, his father died and he was first entrusted to the care of St. Severinus. After the death of Severinus, an uncle, Bishop Constantius of Lorsch in Bavaria took charge of his...
St. John the Apostle: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, December 27, 2023
St. John, Apostle and Evangelist St. John the Apostle, the son of Zebedee and Salome, was one of the Twelve Apostles of Jesus. John was called to be an Apostle by our Lord in the first year of His public ministry. He is considered the same person as John the...
St. Stephen: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, December 26, 2023
Saint Stephen was one of the first ordained deacons of the Church. He was also the first Christian martyr. The Greek word from which we derive the English word martyr literally means witness. In that sense, every Christian is called to bear witness to Jesus Christ, in...
St. Eugenia: Saint of the Day for Monday, December 25, 2023
There definitely was a Roman martyr named Eugenia but the rest of her story is a romantic fictitious legend. According to it she was the daughter of Duke Philip of Alexandria, governor of Egypt during the reign of Emporer Valerian. She fled her father's house dressed...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 30, 2024
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Daily Readings for Monday, January 29, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 15:13-14, 30; 16:5-13 13 A messenger came and told David, 'The men of Israel have shifted their allegiance to Absalom.'14 David said to all his retinue then with him in Jerusalem, 'Up, let us flee, or we shall not escape from Absalom! Leave as...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 28, 2024
Reading 1, Deuteronomy 18:15-20 15 Yahweh your God will raise up a prophet like me; you will listen to him.16 This is exactly what you asked Yahweh your God to do -- at Horeb, on the day of the Assembly, when you said, "Never let me hear the voice of Yahweh my God or...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 27, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 12:1-7, 10-17 35 With the coming of evening that same day, he said to them, 'Let us cross over to the other side.'36 And leaving the crowd behind they took him, just as he was, in the boat; and there were other boats with him.37 Then it began...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 26, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 11:1-4, 5-10, 13-17 1 At the turn of the year, at the time when kings go campaigning, David sent Joab and with him his guards and all Israel. They massacred the Ammonites and laid siege to Rabbah-of-the-Ammonites. David, however, remained in...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 25, 2024
Reading 1, Acts 22:3-16 3 'I am a Jew', Paul said, 'and was born at Tarsus in Cilicia. I was brought up here in this city. It was under Gamaliel that I studied and was taught the exact observance of the Law of our ancestors. In fact, I was as full of duty towards God...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 24, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 7:4-17 4 But that very night, the word of Yahweh came to Nathan:5 'Go and tell my servant David, "Yahweh says this: Are you to build me a temple for me to live in?6 I have never lived in a house from the day when I brought the Israelites out...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 23, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 6:12-15, 17-19 12 King David was informed that Yahweh had blessed Obed-Edom's family and everything belonging to him on account of the ark of God. David accordingly went and, amid great rejoicing, brought the ark of God up from Obed-Edom's...
Daily Readings for Monday, January 22, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 5:1-7, 10 1 All the tribes of Israel then came to David at Hebron and said, 'Look, we are your own flesh and bone.2 In days past when Saul was our king, it was you who led Israel on its campaigns, and to you it was that Yahweh promised, "You...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 21, 2024
Reading 1, Jonah 3:1-5, 10 1 The word of Yahweh was addressed to Jonah a second time.2 'Up!' he said, 'Go to Nineveh, the great city, and preach to it as I shall tell you.'3 Jonah set out and went to Nineveh in obedience to the word of Yahweh. Now Nineveh was a city...