Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Finian Lobhar; Sixth Century Irish abbot, a disciple of St. Columba; tradition credits him with founding a church and monastery at Innisfallen; after a stay in Clonmore, Finian Lobhar became abbotof SwordsAbbey near Dublin; he may have returned to Clonmore in his later […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Fourth Sunday of Lent – Laetare Sunday Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/15/26 Gospel: John 9:1-41 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Boniface Curitan; Seventh Century evangelist to the Picts and Scots; probably a Roman by birth, Boniface was the bishop of Ross, England; he introduced Roman observances into the British territories and founded a vast number of parishes; he died in 660 Office of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Euphrasia of Constantinople, 380-410; a noble Roman; her mother entered aconvent in Egypt, and Euphrasia, at the age of five, went with her; at the age of twelve, orphaned, she was commanded by Emperor Arcadius to marry a senator but received permission to […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; Fourth Century chamberlainat the court of EmperorDiocletian at Nicomedia; arrested for being aChristianwhen the last greatpersecution of the Church was launched; he was tortured, and eventually martyred in 303 A.D.; he is ranked as one of the first victims of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; Ninth Century Martyredpriest of Cordoba, Spain, slain by the Moors, after his arrest in 850; Eulogius was a noted scholar of Scripture he wrote Exhortation to Martyrdom for two young virgin martyrs, Flora and Mary, who were beheaded; released, Eulogius […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Macarius of Jerusalem; Fourth Century bishop of Jerusalem who helped St. Helena to locate the True Cross; when Helena discovered three crosses in Jerusalem, Macarius suggested that a seriously ill woman be touched with each one; one cured the woman instantly, and was […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Monday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, 1384-1440; at the age of 12, she was arranged to marry Lorenzo Ponziani; the marriage lasted forty years and bore three children; Frances’ two daughters were killed, her husband seriously wounded, and her son nearly escaped ransom; these events led her into […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Third Sunday of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/8/26 Gospel: John 4:5-42 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Second Week of Lent Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; African martyrs who became Christian catechumens; they were arrested but stayed true to their faith despite deplorable prison conditions and earnest pleas from Perpetua’s father to renounce her faith; along with three other catechumens, they were executed in the amphitheater at Carthage […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Second Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Fridolin; Sixth Century Irishman, venerated as the “Apostle of the Upper Rhine”; he traveled toFranceand settled in Poitiers, rebuilding the monastery ofSt. Hilary which had been destroyed by Vandals; he then became a hermit on the Rhine, and built theabbey of Sackingen; he […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Second Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Philip of Jesus, 1572-1597; born in Mexico City, he entered the Franciscans at Puebla but then departed the order in 1589 to journey to the Philippines as a trader; in 1590, he repented and returned to the Franciscan fold; his superiors commanded him […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more