2 Mc 7:1-2, 9-14/2 Thes 2:16-3:5/Lk 20:27-38 or 20:27, 34-38
Ez 47:1-2, 8-9, 12/1 Cor 3:9c-11, 16-17/Jn 2:13-22
Mal 3:19-20a/2 Thes 3:7-12/Lk 21:5-19
Saint of the Day - November 14
He was born in Ireland in the 7th century. Sidonius encountered the monastic life while visiting the Abbey of Jumieges as a young man, and felt a call to the cowl, taking vows in 664. Spent several years travelling from community to community. Companion to Saint Audoenus in Rome for more than ten years. Sent by Audoenus to found a monastery near the city of Rouen; it was known as Saint-Saens, and was destroyed in the 9th century by war. Sidonius founded several other monasteries in this region, and served as abbot, before retiring to the prayerful life of a monk.