Reading 1: Genesis 37:3-4, Reading 1: Genesis 37:12-13, Reading 1: Genesis 37:17-18, Responsorial Psalm: Psalms 105:16-21, Gospel: Matthew 21:45-46, Gospel: Matthew 21:33-43

St. John Joseph of the Cross was born about the middle of the seventeenth century in the beautiful island of Ischia, near Naples. From his childhood he was the model of virtue, and in his sixteenth year he entered the Franciscan Order of the Strictest Observance, or Reform of St. Peter of Alcantara. Such was […]