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Saint of the Day
St. Peter Thomas: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 25, 2026
Carmelite Latinpatriarch and papal legate. Peter was born in Gascony, France and joined the Carmelites while still a young man. In 1342 he was appointed procurator of the order and, from Avignon, he oversaw the organization and government of the Carmelites. As Avignon...
St. Francis de Sales: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 24, 2026
St. Francis de Sales was born to a noble family at Chateau de Sales in the Kingdom of Savoy near Geneva, Switzerland on August 21, 1567. He was a Bishop and Doctor of the Church. Francis was both intelligent and gentle. From a very early age, he desired to serve God....
St. Ildephonsus: Saint of the Day for Friday, January 23, 2026
St. Ildephonsus is highly regarded in Spain and closely associated with devotion to the Blessed Virgin which he fostered by his famous work concerning her perpetual virginity. Born around 607, Ildephonsus came from a noble family and was probably a pupil of St....
St. Vincent Pallotti: Saint of the Day for Thursday, January 22, 2026
St. Vincent Pallotti, Priest (Feast - January 22) Born in Rome in 1795, St. Vincent became a priest and dedicated himself completely to God and cared for souls. He dreamed of gaining for Christ all non-Catholics, especially the Mohammedans. To this end he inaugurated...
St. Agnes: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 21, 2026
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 Tuesday, January 20, 2026
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 Monday, January 19, 2026
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 Sunday, January 18, 2026
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 Saturday, January 17, 2026
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 Friday, January 16, 2026
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, Ireland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia,...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 25, 2026
Reading 1, Isaiah 8:23-9:3 23 For is not everything dark as night for a country in distress? As the past humbled the land of Zebulun and the land of Naphtali, so the future will glorify the Way of the Sea, beyond the Jordan, the territory of the nations.1 The people...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 24, 2026
Reading 1, Samuel 1:1-4, 11-12, 19, 23-27 1 There was a man of Ramathaim, a Zuphite from the highlands of Ephraim whose name was Elkanah son of Jeroham, son of Elihu, son of Tohu, son of Zuph, an Ephraimite.2 He had two wives, one called Hannah, the other Peninnah;...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 23, 2026
Reading 1, 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 his...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 22, 2026
Reading 1, Samuel 18:6-9; 19:1-7 6 On their return, when David was coming back from killing the Philistine, the women came out of all the towns of Israel singing and dancing to meet King Saul, with tambourines, sistrums and cries of joy;7 and as they danced the women...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 21, 2026
Reading 1, 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 since...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 20, 2026
Reading 1, 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 king...
Daily Readings for Monday, January 19, 2026
Reading 1, Samuel 15:16-23 16 Samuel then said to Saul, 'Stop! Let me tell you what Yahweh said to me last night.' He said, 'Go on.'17 Samuel said, 'Small as you may be in your own eyes, are you not the leader of the tribes of Israel? Yahweh has anointed you as king...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 18, 2026
Daily Reading for Sunday January 18, 2026 Reading 1, Isaiah 49:3, 5-6Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10Gospel, John 1:29-34Reading 2, Corinthians 1:1-3 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, Isaiah 49:3, 5-6 3 He said to...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 17, 2026
Reading 1, Samuel 9:1-4, 17-19; 10:1 1 Among the men of Benjamin was a man called Kish son of Abiel, son of Zeror, son of Becorath, son of Aphiah; a Benjaminite and a person of rank.2 He had a son called Saul, a handsome man in the prime of life. Of all the Israelites...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 16, 2026
Reading 1, Samuel 8:4-7, 10-22 4 The elders of Israel all assembled, went back to Samuel at Ramah, and said,5 'Look, you are old, and your sons are not following your example. So give us a king to judge us, like the other nations.'6 Samuel thought that it was wrong of...