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Saint of the Day
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...
St. Adele: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 24, 2023
St. Adele, Widow. A daughter of King Dagobert II of Germany, St. Adele became a nun upon the death of her husband, making provisions for her son, the future father of St. Gregory of Utrecht. She founded a convent at Palatiolum near Trier and became its first Abbess,...
St. John of Kanty: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 23, 2023
The people of Olkusz in Bohemia in 1431 had every reason to be suspicious of their new pastor. They knew what a Cracow professor would think of their small rural town. But even more insulting, their town was once again being used as a dumping ground for a priest who...
St. Chaeromon: Saint of the Day for Friday, December 22, 2023
Bishop of Nilopolis, in Egypt. When the persecution was instituted by Emperor Trajanus Decius, Chaeromon Was quite elderly. He and several companions fled into the Arabian desert and were never seen again. The bishop and his companions are listed as martyrs. Excellent...
St. Peter Canisius: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 21, 2023
In 1565, the Vatican was looking for a secret agent. It was shortly after the Council of Trent and the pope wanted to get the decrees of the Council to all the European bishops. What would be a simple errand in our day, was a dangerous assignment in the sixteenth...
St. Dominic of Silos: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Benedictine abbot and defender of the faith. Born in Canas, Navarre, Spain, circa 1000, he entered the Benedictines at San Millan de Ia Cogolla. King Garcia III of Navarre challenged him when he became abbot of the monastery, and Dominic refused to surrender part of...
Daily Reading
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...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 20, 2024
Reading 1, Second Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 1 Saul was dead and David, returning after his victory over the Amalekites, had been at Ziklag for two days.2 On the third day, a man arrived from Saul's camp with his clothes torn and earth on his head. When he came to...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 19, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 24:3-21 3 Saul thereupon took three thousand men selected from all Israel and went in search of David and his men east of the Rocks of the Mountain Goats.4 He came to the sheepfolds along the route, where there was a cave, and went in to cover...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 18, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 1 Saul let his son Jonathan and all his servants know of his intention to kill David. But Jonathan, Saul's son, held David in great affection;2 and Jonathan warned David, 'My father Saul is looking for a way to kill you, so be on...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 17, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 17:32-33, 37, 40-51 32 David said to Saul, 'Let no one be discouraged on his account; your servant will go and fight this Philistine.'33 Saul said to David, 'You cannot go and fight the Philistine; you are only a boy and he has been a warrior...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 16, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 16:1-13 1 Yahweh said to Samuel, 'How much longer do you mean to go on mourning over Saul, now that I myself have rejected him as ruler of Israel? Fill your horn with oil and go. I am sending you to Jesse of Bethlehem, for I have found myself a...