August 12, 2025

Memorial of  St. Jane Frances De Chantal

O God, who made Saint Jane Frances de Chantel radiant with outstanding merits in different walks of life, grant us, through her intercession, that, walking faithfully in our vocation, we may constantly be examples of shining light. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen

Daily Thought from the Saints

"He who seeks not the Cross of Christ seeks not the glory of Christ."

— St. John of the Cross

Daily Scripture Verse

"But now thus says the Lord, he who created you, O Jacob, he who formed you, O Israel: "Fear not, for I have redeemed you; I have called you by name, you are mine.""

Isaiah 43:1

Daily Meditation

"Oh, how painful it is to Me that souls so seldom unite themselves to Me in Holy Communion. I wait for souls, and they are indifferent toward Me. I love them tenderly and sincerely, and they distrust Me. I want to lavish My graces on them, and they do not want to accept them. They treat Me as a dead object, whereas My Heart is full of love and mercy. In order that you may know at least some of My pain, imagine the most tender of mothers who has great love for her children, while those children spurn her love. Consider her pain. No one is in a position to console her. This is but a pale image and likeness of My love."

— Diary of St. Faustina Kowalska

Daily Catholic Wisdom

Consider the quiet intimacy Mary shared with Jesus for the better part of a year, before anyone else had glimpsed his face. She carried him under her heart. She felt his quickening, Life itself becoming life in the flesh. This is a special kind of knowing only a pregnant woman can experience: the paradox of loving a person that one has never seen or touched but is also somehow always touching, in a mysterious and veiled way. This is not unlike the experience of faith; we see now darkly, through the veil, what we will one day see face-to-face.

—Abigail Favale, Ph.D.
from her book, “Into the Deep: An Unlikely Catholic Conversion”

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. James Bracke, C.S.C.

Loving God—the shepherd who seeks us always. In your kingdom, where the last are first and the first are last, may humility flow like a river to remove the pride that keeps us from being your children. May we trust in you alone. Grant this in the name of Christ our Lord and Brother. Amen.