Welcome to the traditional Catholic Daily Devotional for Tuesday, May 13th, 2025.

It's the feast of St. Robert Bellarmine, third class with the color of white.

In this episode, the meditation, resurrection.

Today's news from the church, Leo the XIV, the symbolic significance of his name,

and today's thought from Archbishop Marcel Lefev.

But first, the collect of today's Mass.

O God, who endowed Blessed Robert, your bishop and doctor,

with wondrous learning and virtue,

to repel the deceits of error and to defend the rights of the

apostolic see, grant, by his merits and intercession, that we may ever grow in love of truth,

and that the hearts of the airing may return to the unity of your church. When Robert Bellarmine

was ordained a priest in 1570, the study of scripture and church history was in rough shape.

But this young Jesuit from Tuscany was determined to change that.

Armed with brilliant scholarship and deep personal holiness, he took up the challenge of defending Catholic teaching during the heart of the Reformation.

Bellarmine became the first Jesuit professor at the University of Levant, and went on to write

his most famous work, disputations on the controversies of the Christian faith.

These three volumes tackled the hot-button issues of the day, like papal authority, the rights

of kings, and the role of the laity.

His work drew fire from both Protestant

reformers and Catholic monarchs, but it also helped clarify the church's teachings for generations

to come. Even as a cardinal living in the Vatican, Bellarmine's lifestyle didn't change. He gave

away his furniture and fine wall hangings to the poor, saying, the walls won't

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