Reading 1: Hebrews 7:1-3, Reading 1: Hebrews 7:15-17, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 110:1-4, Gospel: Mark 3:1-6
Author: Catholic Online
St. Fabian: Saint of the Day for Wednesday, January 20, 2021
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 the future of the faith, curiosity about the new pope, a desire to grieve for the pope who had passed. Seeing all the important people gathered to make this momentous decision must have been overwhelming. Which one would be the new …
St. Fillan: Saint of the Day for Tuesday, January 19, 2021
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 and resumed his eremitical life at Glendochart, Pertchire, where he built a church and was reknowned for his miracles. Various legends attribute the most extravagant miracles to him, such as the one in which his prayers caused a …
Daily Readings for Tuesday, January 19, 2021
Reading 1: Hebrews 6:10-20, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 111:1-2, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 111:4-5, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 111:9-10, Gospel: Mark 2:23-28
Daily Readings for Monday, January 18, 2021
Reading 1: Hebrews 5:1-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 110:1-4, Gospel: Mark 2:18-22
St. Volusian: Saint of the Day for Monday, January 18, 2021
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, possibly as a martyr.
St. Anthony the Abbot: Saint of the Day for Sunday, January 17, 2021
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 refused to bathe, who lived on bread and water. They were Greek, the world’s most admired civilization, and Anthony was Egyptian, a member of a conquered nation. They were philosophers, educated in languages and rhetoric. Anthony had …
Daily Readings for Sunday, January 17, 2021
Reading 1: 1 Samuel 3:19, Reading 1: 1 Samuel 3:3-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 40:4, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 40:7-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 40:2, Gospel: John 1:35-42, Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 6:13-15, Reading 2: 1 Corinthians 6:17-20
St. Fursey: Saint of the Day for Saturday, January 16, 2021
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, IreÂland, as a noble. He founded Rathmat Abbey, now probably Killursa. In 630 Fursey and his friends went to East Anglia, England, where he founded a monastery near Ugremouth on land donated by King Sigebert. In his later years, Fursey went to France to build a monastery at Lagny, near Paris, France. He was buried in Picardy. St. Bede and others wrote …
Daily Readings for Saturday, January 16, 2021
Reading 1: Hebrews 4:12-16, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:8-10, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 19:15, Gospel: Mark 2:13-17