Monday of the Fourth Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Zeno; martyred soldier at Nicomedia (modern-day Turkey); he was seized and condemned to death for laughing while EmperorDiocletian offered a sacrificeto the Romangod Ceres; Zeno had his jaws shattered and was then beheaded Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/22/25 Gospel: Luke […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Fourth Sunday of Advent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/21/25 Gospel: Matthew 1:18-24 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Dominic of Silos, 1000-1073; born in Navarre, Spain; when, as Benedictine abbot, he refused to surrender lands to the crown, he was exiled; he went to King Ferdinand I of Castile and Leon, who made himabbotofSt. SebastianAbbey at Silos, now called St. Dominic’s; […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Friday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Nemesius; martyred in Alexandria under the persecution of Decius; Nemesius was arrested, scourged, and burned alive; like Christ, he was killed between two criminals Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/19/25 Gospel: Luke 1:5-25 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Auxentius; soldier in the Roman army, but refused to take part in sacrifices to pagan gods, and was persecuted for the faith; after his release from military service, he was ordained a priest and became thebishop of Mopsuestia, in Cilicia; he died in […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Wednesday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Wivina, 1103-1170; she was a native of Oisy, Flanders, Belgium; she refused all offers of marriage until the age of 23, when she became a hermitess at GrandBigard, near Brussels; she gathered disciples, and accepted the offer of land from Count Godfrey of […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Tuesday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Adelaide, 931-999; married Lothair of Italy, and when he died, his successor and usurper, Berengar of Ivrea, tried to force her to marry his son; she escaped to Canossa, and sought the help of Otto of Germany; Otto conquered Italy, married Adelaide, and […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Monday of the Third Week of Advent Saint of the Day: St. Maria Crocifissa Di Rosa, 1813-1855; left school at the age of 17 to manage her widowed father’s household; she took care of the spiritual needs of young girls working in her father’s mills, and she volunteered to work in the Brescia hospital during […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Third Sunday of Advent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/14/25 Gospel: Matthew 11:2-11 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Saturday of the Second Week of Advent Memorial of St. Lucy, virgin and martyr, 283-304. lived a Christian life; but she rejected the advances of a Roman soldier, and was arrested, and martyred; Lucy is the patron saint of eye ailments Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/13/25 Gospel: Matthew 17:9-13 Podcast: Play in […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Feast of Our Lady of Guadalupe Friday of the Second Week of Advent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 12/12/25 Gospel: Luke 1:26-38 Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSSPodcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more

Thursday of the Second Week of Advent Optional Memorial of Pope St. Damasus I, 304-384; when Damasus was elected pope, a minority elected and consecrated another deacon, Ursinus, as pope; supporters of the antipope even managed to get Damasus accused of a grave crime—probably sexual—as late as A.D. 378; he had to clear himself before […]Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: ... Read more