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Saint of the Day
St. Nemesius: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, December 19, 2023
Martyr of Egypt. He was burned alive in Alexandria, Egypt, during the persecutions under Emperor Trajanus Decius. Nemesius was arrested and scourged and then burned to death. Like Christ, he was executed between two criminals. Excellent content provided by...
St. Rufus: Saint of the Day for Monday, December 18, 2023
Rufus and Zosimus were citizens of Antioch (or perhaps Philippi) who were brought to Rome with St. Ignatius of Antioch during the reign of Emperor Trajan. They were condemned to death for their Christianity and thrown to wild beasts in the arena two days before the...
St. Olympias: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 17, 2023
Olympias born into a wealthy noble Constantinople family. She was orphaned when a child and was given over to the care of Theodosia by her uncle, the prefect Procopius. She married Nebridius, also a prefect, was widowed soon after, refused several offers of marriage,...
St. Ado of Vienne: Saint of the Day for Saturday, December 16, 2023
An archbishop and scholar, Ado was born in Sens and educated at the Benedictine abbey of Ferrieres. Abbot Lupus Servatus, an outstanding humanist of the time, trained Ado, and was impressed with the obvious holiness of the young man. A noble by birth, Ado renounced...
St. Mary Di Rosa: Saint of the Day for Friday, December 15, 2023
Saint Mary (Paula) Di Rosa December 15 The pounding on the barricaded door of the military hospital sent every heart thudding in terror. In the middle of the war in Brescia (Italy) in 1848, the wounded, sick, and those who cared for them knew what that pounding meant....
St. John of the Cross: Saint of the Day for Thursday, December 14, 2023
Saint John of the Cross was born Juan de Yepes y Alvarez, in Fontiveros, Avila, Spain in 1542. His father was employed by wealthy family members as an accountant, but they disowned him when he married a poor woman from the lower class. As a result of his familyÂ?s...
St. Lucy: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, December 13, 2023
Lucy's history has been lost and all we really know for certain is that this brave woman who lived in Syracuse lost her life during the persecution of Christians in the early fourth century. Her veneration spread to Rome so that by the sixth century the whole Church...
Our Lady of Guadalupe: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, December 12, 2023
An elder Mexican man makes his way to Mass in the early morning twilight of December 9, 1531. He is a peasant, a simple farmer and laborer, and he has no education. Born under Aztec rule, he is a convert to Catholicism, and each step he takes this morning is a step...
Pope Saint Damasus I: Saint of the Day for Monday, December 11, 2023
All lovers of Scripture have reason to celebrate this day. Damasus was the pope who commissioned Saint Jerome to translate the Scriptures into Latin, the Vulgate version of the Bible. Damasus was a sixty-year-old deacon when he was elected bishop of Rome in 366. His...
Pope Saint Gregory III: Saint of the Day for Sunday, December 10, 2023
He was just standing there, not doing anything special. As a Syrian priest he must have felt a little out of place among the Roman people mourning that day for the dead Pope. As a good preacher, he must have wanted to speak to the funeral procession about Christ's...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Monday, January 15, 2024
Reading 1, First 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...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 14, 2024
Daily Reading for Sunday January 14, 2024 Reading 1, First Samuel 3:3-10, 19Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 40:2, 4, 7-8, 8-9, 10Gospel, John 1:35-42Reading 2, First Corinthians 6:13-15, 17-20 Printable PDF of Today's Reading Past / Future Daily Readings Reading 1, First...
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 13, 2024
Reading 1, First 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...
Daily Readings for Friday, January 12, 2024
Reading 1, First 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...
Daily Readings for Thursday, January 11, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 4:1-11 1 and, for all Israel, the word of Samuel was as the word of Yahweh; since Eli was very old and his sons persisted in their wicked behaviour towards Yahweh. It happened at that time that the Philistines mustered to make war on Israel and...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, January 10, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 3:1-10, 19-20 1 Now, the boy Samuel was serving Yahweh in the presence of Eli; in those days it was rare for Yahweh to speak; visions were uncommon.2 One day, it happened that Eli was lying down in his room. His eyes were beginning to grow dim;...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 09, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 1:9-20 9 When they had finished eating in the room, Hannah got up and stood before Yahweh. Eli the priest was sitting on his seat by the doorpost of the temple of Yahweh.10 In the bitterness of her soul she prayed to Yahweh with many tears,11...
Daily Readings for Monday, January 08, 2024
Reading 1, First Samuel 1:1-8 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; Peninnah had...
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 07, 2024
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Daily Readings for Saturday, January 06, 2024
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