Monday of the 10th Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Maximinus of Aix; first bishop of Aix, in Provence, France, reportedly one of Christ’s seventy-two disciples and a companion of Saints MaryMagdalen,Mary Cleopas, Martha, and Lazarus; in one account, he is called “the man who had been blind from birth”; Maximinus died […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Solemnity of the Body and Blood of Christ Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 6/7/26 Gospel: John 6:51-58 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the 9th Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Norbert, 1080-1134; in an effort to reform and revitalize his fellow priests,he founded the Norbertine order in 1121; following the rule of St. Augustine, St. Norbert recognized that meaningful clerical reform could only flow from a monastic life — priests living under a […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Boniface, 680-754; sent by Pope Gregory to consolidate the missions in Germany; he became a bishop, and later papal legate. at almost 80, he resigned his positions and retired to Frisia as a missionary, where he was martyred while reading a book Office of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Petroc; Sixth Century son of a Welsh king; he became a monk, and went with some friends to Ireland to study; they went to Cornwall, in England, and spent thirty years there; Petroc then made a pilgrimage toRomeand Jerusalem, at whichtimehe is […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Wednesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Charles Lwanga and companions; Charles was born in 1860, and he became a page in the royal court of Mwanga, the king of the Baganda in the south of what is now Uganda; the king was hostile to Christians, and when Joseph Mkasa, master […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Tuesday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of Saints Marcellinus and Peter; martyrs under Diocletian’s persecution in the early Fourth Century; holding to their faith, they converted the prison keeper, Artemius, and his wife and daughter to Christianity; they were martyred, and later honored by Constantine the Great, who built a basilica […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Monday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time Memorial of St. Justin; Second Century martyr and apologist; he came to believe God’s message was embodied in Christian teachings and his conversion account describes that Christian moral beauty and truth brought him to Christ; his writings are well-respected to this day and include such works as […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Solemnity of the Most Holy Trinity Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/31/26 Gospel: John 3:16-18 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Joan of Arc, 1412-1431; successfully lifted the siege of Orléans — a victory military historians still puzzle over — and led Prince Charles VII to his coronation; she was captured by the Burgundians in 1430, sold to the English, and was convicted […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Maximinus of Trier; bishop of Trier, Germany, from 332, and a miracle worker; he gave refuge to Athansius in 332, and later to St. Paul, patriarch of Constantinople; he was an ardent enemy of the Arian heretics; he was called “one of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Eighth Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Bernard of Montjoux, 923-1008; he became a priest, was madeVicar General of Aosta, and spent more than four decades doing missionary work in the Alps; he is especially remembered for two Alpine hospices he built to aid lost travelers in the mountain […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more