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For latest Catholic News, please visit us at https://www.wiredcatholic.com This podcast contains today's mass readings from the US Catholic Conference of Bishops. The official USCCB podcast feed contains many future podcasts which requires you to scroll through a month's worth of podcasts to today's reading only. This feed only downloads the podcast of the day so today's reading will appear on top of the list. The script is based on the user's timezone so it will work globally. Please note t ...
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Full Text of Readings The Resurrection of the Lord The Mass of Easter Day Lectionary: 42 The Saint of the day is Saint Conrad of Parzham Saint Conrad of Parzham’s Story Conrad spent most of his life as porter in Altoetting, Bavaria, letting people into the friary and indirectly encouraging them to let God into their lives. His parents, Bartholomew …
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Full Text of Readings Holy Saturday At the Easter Vigil in the Holy Night of Easter Lectionary: 41 The Saint of the day is Saint Gianna Beretta Molla Saint Gianna Beretta Molla’s Story In less than 40 years, Gianna Beretta Molla became a pediatric physician, a wife, a mother and a saint! She was born in Magenta near Milano, the tenth of Alberto and…
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Full Text of Readings Good Friday of the Lord’s Passion Lectionary: 40 The Saint of the day is Blessed James Oldo Blessed James Oldo’s Story You’ve heard rags-to-riches stories. Today, we celebrate the reverse. James of Oldo was born into a well-to-do family near Milan in 1364. He married a woman who like him, appreciated the comforts that came wit…
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Full Text of Readings Thursday of Holy Week Lectionary: 260, 39 The Saint of the day is Saint Benedict Joseph Labre Saint Benedict Joseph Labre’s Story Benedict Joseph Labre was truly eccentric, one of God’s special little ones. Born in France and the eldest of 18 children, he studied under his uncle, a parish priest. Because of poor health and a l…
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Full Text of Readings Wednesday of Holy Week Lectionary: 259 The Saint of the day is Saint Bernadette Soubirous Saint Bernadette Soubirous’ Story Bernadette Soubirous was born in 1844, the first child of an extremely poor miller in the town of Lourdes in southern France. The family was living in the basement of a dilapidated building when on Februa…
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Full Text of Readings Tuesday of Holy Week Lectionary: 258 The Saint of the day is Saint Caesar de Bus Saint Caesar de Bus’ Story Like so many of us, Caesar de Bus struggled with the decision about what to do with his life. After completing his Jesuit education he had difficulty settling between a military and a literary career. He wrote some plays…
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Full Text of Readings Monday of Holy Week Lectionary: 257 The Saint of the day is Blessed Peter Gonzalez Blessed Peter Gonzalez’s Story Saint Paul had a conversion experience on the road to Damascus. Many years later, the same proved true for Peter Gonzalez, who triumphantly rode his horse into the Spanish city of Astorga in the 13th century to tak…
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Full Text of Readings Palm Sunday of the Lord's Passion Lectionary: 37 and 38 The Saint of the day is Saint Martin I Saint Martin I’s Story When Martin I became pope in 649, Constantinople was the capital of the Byzantine empire and the patriarch of Constantinople was the most influential Church leader in the eastern Christian world. The struggles …
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Full Text of Readings Friday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lectionary: 255 The Saint of the day is Saint Stanislaus Saint Stanislaus’ Story Anyone who reads the history of Eastern Europe cannot help but chance on the name of Stanislaus, the saintly but tragic bishop of Kraków, patron of Poland. He is remembered with Saints Thomas More and Thomas Becket…
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Full Text of Readings Thursday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lectionary: 254 The Saint of the day is Saint Magdalene of Canossa Saint Magdalene of Canossa’s Story Wealth and privilege did nothing to prevent today’s saint from following her calling to serve Christ in the poor. Nor did the protests of her relatives, concerned that such work was beneath h…
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Full Text of Readings Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lectionary: 253 The Saint of the day is Saint Casilda Saint of the Day for April 9 (d. c. 1050) Saint Casilda’s Story Some saints’ names are far more familiar to us than others, but even the lives of obscure holy persons teach us something. And so it is with Saint Casilda. Her father was a M…
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Full Text of Readings Tuesday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lectionary: 252 The Saint of the day is Saint Julie Billiart Saint Julie Billiart’s Story Born in Cuvilly, France, into a family of well-to-do farmers, young Marie Rose Julie Billiart showed an early interest in religion and in helping the sick and poor. Though the first years of her life were…
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Full Text of Readings Monday of the Fifth Week of Lent Lectionary: 251 The Saint of the day is Saint John Baptist de La Salle Saint John Baptist de La Salle’s Story Complete dedication to what he saw as God’s will for him dominated the life of John Baptist de La Salle. In 1950, Pope Pius XII named him patron of schoolteachers for his efforts in upg…
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