Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Peter of Nicomedia; a chamberlain at the court of Diocletian; arrested for being a Christian during the last great persecution of the Church at Diocletian’s command; tortured and martyred in 303 A.D. Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/12/24 Gospel: John 5:1-16 […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/4aedb727-7e79-4112-87ae-b13100207f4d/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the Fourth Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Eulogius of Cordoba; a noted scholar of scripture, he was arrested in 850; after his release, he was named bishop of Cordoba; before being consecrated, he aided Leocritia, a young Moorish woman who had converted to Christianity; they were caught and beheaded in […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/cfc90cbf-bc60-42af-823e-b12e016f2498/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Fourth Sunday of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/10/24 Gospel: John 3:14-21 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/48bdfb8b-2b4c-4b22-a4df-b12e005ca5de/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/48bdfb8b-2b4c-4b22-a4df-b12e005ca5de/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Saturday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Frances of Rome, 1384-1440; attracted to the religious life in her youth, but her parents had picked a nobleman for her husband; Frances and her brother-in-law’s wife set out to serve the poor together; Frances requested and was given permission to found a society of […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/42e50219-fe95-4eef-b0e2-b12e0017fa2c/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of St. John of God, 1495-1550; came to a true conversion at the age of 40, when he went to Africa, hoping to be martyred; he was advised that this was not spiritually sound, so he returned to Spain and a religious goods store; he was moved […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/98ea7d76-755a-4447-a756-b12d00046a32/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Thursday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of Saints Perpetua and Felicity; lived in the Third and Fourth Centuries in Carthage, North Africa; Perpetua, 22, was a noblewoman with an infant son; she refused to deny her Christian faith; Felicity was a slavewoman and expectant mother; they and three companions were sent to the […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/185635b2-abee-4878-9099-b12b0176d3f0/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Wednesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Colette, 1380-1447; orphaned at 17, she became a Franciscan tertiary, living in Corby Abbey, near Picardy, France; she left in response to a dream directing her to reform the Poor Claires; she founded seventeen convents with the reformed rule, and reformed several older […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/8484405c-56b8-4dc5-b29f-b12a018aa444/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Tuesday of the Third Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. John Joseph of the Cross, 1654-1739; became a Franciscan at the age of 16; three years after his profession, he was sent to found a monastery in Piedmont; he built another convent, and became master of novices, and later, provincial of the province […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/77c0fe52-e532-4dc7-8f7b-b12a000df3dd/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Monday of the Third Week of Lent Commemoration of St. Casimir, 1458-1483; even as a teenager, he lived a highly disciplined life, sleeping on the ground, spending much of the night in prayer, and dedicating himself to lifelong celibacy; nobles in Hungary asked Casimir’s father, the king of Poland, to send his son to take […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/be5bfdfd-defb-4b72-8dd2-b129000322f0/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Third Sunday of Lent Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/3/24 Gospel: John 2:13-25 https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/af6809c7-cf53-4e28-938e-b127005d2278/audio.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadSubscribe: RSShttps://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/af6809c7-cf53-4e28-938e-b127005d2278/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Saturday of the Second Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Agnes of Bohemia, 1200-1282; daughter of King Ottocar and Queen Constance of Hungary; betrothed to Emperor Frederick II of Germany, but refused the marriage and became a Poor Claire; gifted with miracles Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 3/2/24 Gospel: Lukke 5:1-3, […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/5a11f159-ce91-4c8e-857d-b12700213d9a/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more

Friday of the Second Week of Lent Saint of the Day: St. Aubin, 470-550; entered the monastery of Tincillac when a youth, was elected Abbot when he was thirty-five, and was named Bishop of Angers in 529; known for his generosity to the sick and the indigent, widows, and orphans, for his work in ransoming slaves, and for […]https://traffic.omny.fm/d/clips/134e18ca-7af8-403f-a7eb-ad7f01861f48/e7258e0a-c82f-41fd-8df8-ade30145abb7/2d7224fa-8a2b-4208-a625-b1260002613e/audio.mp3Podcast: Play ... Read more