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Saint of the Day
St. Peter of Tarantaise: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 08, 2020
Cistercian archbishop. Peter was born near Vienne, in Dauphine, France, and joined the Cistercian Order at Bonneveaux at the age of twenty with his two brothers and father. Known for his piety, at age thirty he was sent to serve as the first abbot of Tamie, in the...
St. Rose Venerini: Saint of the Day for Thursday, May 07, 2020
Blessed Rose was born at Viterbo in 1656, the daughter of Godfrey Venerini, a physician. Upon the death of a young man who had been paying court to her, she entered a convent, but after a few months had to return home to look after her widowed mother. Rose use to...
St. Dominic Savio: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, May 06, 2020
Dominic Savio was born on April 2, 1842 in the village of Riva in northern Italy. His father was a blacksmith and his mother a seamstress. He had nine brothers and sisters. His family was poor but hardworking. They were devout and pious Catholics. When he was just two...
St. Hilary of Arles: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, May 05, 2020
Bishop of Arles, France, and friend and relative of St. Honoratus. He was born to a noble family in Lorraine and was successful, although he gave up his secular career to join St. Honoratus at Lerins Abbey. When Honoratus died after being named the bishop of Arles,...
St. Florian: Saint of the Day for Monday, May 04, 2020
The St. Florian commemorated in the Roman Martyrology on May 4th, was an officer of the Roman army, who occupied a high administrative post in Noricum, now part of Austria, and who suffered death for the Faith in the days of Diocletian. His legendary "Acts" state that...
St. James the Lesser: Saint of the Day for Sunday, May 03, 2020
St. James the Less, the author of the first Catholic Epistle, was the son of Alphaeus of Cleophas. His mother Mary was either a sister or a close relative of the Blessed Virgin, and for that reason, according to Jewish custom, he was sometimes called the brother of...
St. Athanasius: Saint of the Day for Saturday, May 02, 2020
St. Athanasius, also known as Athanasius the Great and Athanasius the Confessor, was a bishop and doctor of the church. He is called the "Father of Orthodoxy," the "Pillar of the Church" and "Champion of Christ's Divinity." Athanasius became one of the most dedicated...
St. Marculf: Saint of the Day for Friday, May 01, 2020
Marculf is also known as Marcoul. He was born at Bayeux, Gaul, at noble parents. He was ordained when he was thirty, and did missionary work at Coutances. Desirous of living as a hermit, he was granted land by king Childebert at Nanteuil. He attracted numerous...
St. Pius V, Pope: Saint of the Day for Thursday, April 30, 2020
Pope from 1566-1572 and one of the foremost leaders of the Catholic Reformation. Born Antonio Ghislieri in Bosco, Italy, to a poor family, he labored as a shepherd until the age of fourteen and then joined the Dominicans, being ordained in 1528. Called Brother...
St. Catherine of Siena: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, April 29, 2020
St. Catherine of Siena was born during the outbreak of the plague in Siena, Italy on March 25, 1347. She was the 25th child born to her mother, although half of her brothers and sisters did not survive childhood. Catherine herself was a twin, but her sister did not...
Daily Reading
Daily Readings for Monday, May 25, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday May 25, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 19:1-8Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 68:2-3, 4-5, 6-7Gospel, John 16:29-33 Reading 1, Acts 19:1-8 1 It happened that while Apollos was in Corinth, Paul made his way overland as far as Ephesus, where he found a number...
Daily Readings for Sunday, May 24, 2020
Daily Reading for Sunday May 24, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 1:12-14Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 27:1, 4, 7-8Gospel, John 17:1-11Reading 2, First Peter 4:13-16 Reading 1, Acts 1:12-14 12 So from the Mount of Olives, as it is called, they went back to Jerusalem, a short...
Daily Readings for Saturday, May 23, 2020
Daily Reading for Saturday May 23, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 18:23-28Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 47:2-3, 8-9, 10Gospel, John 16:23-28 Reading 1, Acts 18:23-28 23 where he spent a short time before continuing his journey through the Galatian country and then through Phrygia,...
Daily Readings for Friday, May 22, 2020
Daily Reading for Friday May 22, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 18:9-18Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 47:2-3, 4-5, 6-7Gospel, John 16:20-23 Reading 1, Acts 18:9-18 9 One night the Lord spoke to Paul in a vision, 'Be fearless; speak out and do not keep silence: 10 I am with you. I...
Daily Readings for Thursday, May 21, 2020
Daily Reading for Thursday May 21, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 47:2-3, 6-7, 8-9Gospel, Matthew 28:16-20Reading 2, Ephesians 1:17-23 Reading 1, Acts 1:1-11 1 In my earlier work, Theophilus, I dealt with everything Jesus had done and taught...
Daily Readings for Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Daily Reading for Wednesday May 20, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22--18:1Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 148:1-2, 11-12, 13, 14Gospel, John 16:12-15 Reading 1, Acts 17:15, 22--18:1 15 Paul's escort took him as far as Athens, and went back with instructions for Silas and...
Daily Readings for Tuesday, May 19, 2020
Reading 1, Acts 16:22-34 22 The crowd joined in and showed its hostility to them, so the magistrates had them stripped and ordered them to be flogged. 23 They were given many lashes and then thrown into prison, and the gaoler was told to keep a close watch on them. 24...
Daily Readings for Monday, May 18, 2020
Daily Reading for Monday May 18, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 16:11-15Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 149:1-2, 3-4, 5-6, 9Gospel, John 15:26--16:4 Reading 1, Acts 16:11-15 11 Sailing from Troas we made a straight run for Samothrace; the next day for Neapolis, 12 and from there for...
Daily Readings for Sunday, May 17, 2020
Daily Reading for Sunday May 17, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 8:5-8, 14-17Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 66:1-3, 4-5, 6-7, 16, 20Gospel, John 14:15-21Reading 2, First Peter 3:15-18 Reading 1, Acts 8:5-8, 14-17 5 And Philip went to a Samaritan town and proclaimed the Christ to...
Daily Readings for Saturday, May 16, 2020
Daily Reading for Saturday May 16, 2020 Reading 1, Acts 16:1-10Responsorial Psalm, Psalms 100:1-2, 3, 5Gospel, John 15:18-21 Reading 1, Acts 16:1-10 1 From there he went to Derbe, and then on to Lystra, where there was a disciple called Timothy, whose mother was...