Welcome to the traditional Catholic daily devotional.

Today's Saturday, March 1st, 2025, the Feast of the Blessed Virgin Mary on Saturday, and a first Saturday, a fourth-class feast with a color of white.

In this episode, the meditation, Good Fruit.

Today's news from the church, a new head for the Archdiocese of Washington, D.C.,

and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre.

But first the collect of today's Mass.

Grant us your servants, so Lord God we beseech you to enjoy lasting health of mind and body,

and by the intercession of the glorious and immaculate Virgin Mary,

may we be delivered from present sorrow and partake to the full of eternal happiness.

St. David wasn't just any monk. He was the man who, according to legend, literally made the

ground rise beneath his feet. Born in 5th century Wales to a prince and a woman later revered as

St. Nann, David dedicated his life to God early on. He studied under St. Paulinus, a student of

St. Germanus who had been sent to Britain to fight the spread of Pelagianism, an early heresy

which was shaking the early church. Years later, when that heresy resurfaced, church leaders gathered at Brevy

to set things straight. But the crowd was too massive, and no one could make themselves heard

until they called on David. As he preached, the earth beneath him rose into a hill, lifting him

above the crowd so his words could reach everyone. That moment turned the tide, and David was later made Bishop of Kalaran.

But big cities weren't St. David's thing.

He moved the bishopric to the quiet, remote town of Manavia, now called St. David's,

where he and his monks could live simply, pray, and work.

David founded 12 monasteries, emphasizing a life of discipline and devotion.

Around the age of 80,

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