Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional.

Today's Saturday, February 8th, 2025, the Feast of St. John of Matha, confessor, a third-class feast with the color of white.

In this episode, the meditation, modesty, a characteristic of Mary's life, a preview of this week's episode of the Catholic Mass No. 24, the lessons from the epistle to the sermon,

today's news from the Church, Pope Francis, live broadcasts, and today's thought from the Archbishop.

But first the collect of today's Mass, O God who graciously and by divine means, founded through

Blessed John the Order of the Most Holy Trinity to ransom captives from the hands of the Saracens,

Grant we beseech thee that through thy help and the merits of his prayers, we may be freed, body and soul, from captivity.

St. John of Matho was born to serve. Even as a child, he found joy in helping the poor,

often telling them that he had come into the world for one purpose, to wash their feet.

That heart of service never left him. He studied in Paris, excelling so much that his teachers

urged him to become a priest. He gave up his noble status, knowing that he could do more for others

in God's service. At his first mass, something extraordinary happened. He saw an angel dressed in white, bearing a red and blue cross on his chest,

with his hands resting on the heads of two captives, one Christian, one Morish.

John knew this vision meant something, but he wasn't sure what.

To understand it, he sought out the Holy Hermit, St. Felix of Valois.

Together they lived in intense prayer and penance until the angel appeared again.

The message was clear.

They were called to free Christian captives from slavery.

So they went straight to Rome, and the Pope confirmed their mission.

Thus, the Trinitarian Order was born.

These monks fasted daily, traveled across Europe, gathering alms, and risked their lives,

sailing into enemy lands for ransom captives. On one journey, John returned from Tunisia with

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