Wednesday of the Sixth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Bernard of Montjoux, 923-1008; born in Italy, became a priest, and was made vicar general of Aosta, and spent more than four decades doing missionary work in the Alps; he built schools and hospices, but is best remembered for the hospices he built […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Tuesday of the Sixth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Augustine of Canterbury; left Rome in 596 to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons in England; King Ethelbert welcomed him kindly, set up a residence for Augustine and his monks in Canterbury, and was, himself, baptized on Pentecost Sunday, 597; Augustine was consecrated a bishop in France, […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter Memorial of St. Philip Neri, 1515-1595; moved to Rome at a young age, to devote his life to God; he spent 13 years engaged in prayer and apostolate; laypeople gathered around him, and they met as an informal prayer and discussion group, and also served poor people in […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Sixth Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/25/25 Gospel: John 14:23-29 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Fifth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Joanna; wife of Chuza, steward of King Herod Antipas; she was one of the women who helped provide for Jesus and the apostles; she was also one of the three women who discovered the emptytombofJesuson the firstEastermorning Office of Readings and Morning Prayer […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Fifth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Crispin of Viterbo, 1668-1750; born in Viterbo, Italy, studied, at the Jesuit college, and became a shoemaker; joined the Capuchin Franciscans at the age of 25, and served as gardener and cook; he called himself “the little beast of burden of the Capuchins”; […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Fifth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Rita of Cascia, 1381-1457; born in central Italy, and wanted to become a nun, but was pressured into marrying a harsh and cruel man; she bore and raised two sons; after her husband was killed in a brawl and her sons died, she became […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Christopher Magallanes (1869-1927) and companions; they lived under a very anti-Catholic government in Mexico, one determined to weaken the Catholic faith of its people; churches, schools, and seminaries were closed; foreign clergy were expelled; Cristópher established a clandestine seminary; he and the other priests […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Bernardine of Siena, 1380-1444; ran the hospital in Siena at the age of 20, during the plague; at 22, he became a Franciscan, and was ordained two years later; lived in solitude and prayer for a dozen years, but his gifts called him to […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Monday of the Fifth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Pudentiana; legend has her as the daughter of the Roman senator named in St. Paul’s Second Letter to Timothy who gave away her wealth to the poor, aided the burials of Christians, and died at the age of sixteen Office of Readings and […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Fifth Sunday of Easter Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/18/25 Gospel: John 13:31-35 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Fourth Week of Easter Saint of the Day: St. Simon Stock; brought the Carmelite order from the Holy Land to Europe, and changed it from a hermit order to one of mendicant friars; received an apparition from the Blessed Mother in 1251, in which she gave him the brown scapular Office of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more