St. Irene
Feast date: Oct 20
St. Irene was a Portuguese nun who was martyred in defense of her chastity in the year 653. Saint Irene’s body was miraculously recovered after being thrown into the river.
She was canonized as a Catholic saint because of the great amount of miracles that occured at her tomb.
Her shrine, the “Santarem,” has played a key role for the great quality and beauty of the Catholic Faith that the Portuguese people have lived, even until today.
Daily Reading
Thirty-third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Reading 1 Malachi 3:19-20a Lo, the day is coming, blazing like an oven, when all the proud and all evildoers will be stubble, and the day that is coming will…
Daily Meditation
Stand Erect and Raise Your Heads
Click here for daily readings The readings this Sunday are full of difficult images: a day blazing like an oven that will turn evildoers into stubble, the Lord coming to…