August 26, 2025
Tuesday of the 21st Week in Ordinary Time
God our Father, hear our morning prayer and let the radiance of your love scatter the gloom of our hearts. The light of heaven’s love has restored us to life; free us from the desires that belong to darkness. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, forever and ever. Amen.
Daily Thought from the Saints
"To join two things together there must be nothing between them or there cannot be a perfect fusion. Now realize that this is how God wants our soul to be, without any selfish love of ourselves or of others in between, just as God loves us without anything in between.”
— St. Catherine Of Siena
Daily Scripture Verse
"Then Jesus said to his disciples, “Amen I say to you, it will be hard for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of Heaven. Again I say to you, it is easier for a camel to pass through the eye of a needle than for one who is rich to enter the Kingdom of God.” When the disciples heard this, they were greatly astonished and said “Who then can be saved?” Jesus looked at them and said, “But for God all things are possible.”
Matthew 19:23-26
Daily Meditation
"Often Jesus to believe. He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands, Mud and washing. The sick try to touch him, “for the power came forth from him and healed them all.” And so in the sacraments Christ continues to “touch” us in order to heal us. Moved by so much suffering, Christ not only allows himself to be touched by the sick, but he makes their miseries his own. His healings were signs of the coming of the Kingdom of God. They announced a more radical healing: the victory over sin and death through his Passover. On the cross Christ took upon himself the whole weight of evil and took away the “sin of the world,” of which illness is only a consequence. By his passion and death on the cross, Christ has given a new meaning to suffering: it can henceforth configure us to him and unite us with his redemptive passion.”
—Catechism of the Catholic Church
Daily Catholic Wisdom
Nothing and no one is too small to escape the downpour of his grace, not even a young, unknown Jewish girl – not even each one of us.
—Recatholic Novenas
From “Autumn Rain: A Novena with Mary”
Day by Day with Mary
We find ourselves in this earth as a tempestuous sea, in a desert, in a veil of tears. Now then, Mary is the Star of the Sea, solace of our desert, the light that guides us toward heaven.
St. John Bosco
A Prayer from Notre Dame University
Rev. Nicholas Ayo, C.S.C.
Lord God, your Son walked among us flawed human beings. He loved the poor, the sick, and the widowed. He delighted in little children. He sat at table with men and women who were sinners and called them to new life. Only hypocrisy raised anger in Jesus. Open our eyes and hearts to see ourselves as we are and to cast ourselves upon your mercy rather than to cover our shame with lying to ourselves and to those around us. Amen.
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