August 3, 2025

Eighteenth Sunday in Ordinary Time

Draw near to your servants, O Lord, and answer their prayers with unceasing kindness, that, for those who glory in you as their Creator and guide, you may restore what you have created and keep safe what you have restored. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, one God, for ever and ever.

Daily Thought from the Saints

"Put your heart aside. Duty comes first. But when fulfilling your duty, put your heart into it. It helps."

— St. Josemaria Escriva

Daily Scripture Verse

"Fear not, for I am with you, be not dismayed, for I am your God; I will strengthen you, I will help you, I will uphold you with my victorious right hand."

Isaiah 41:10

Daily Meditation

"In the old days, when there was less education and discussion, perhaps it was possible to get on with a very few simple ideas about God. But it is not so now. Everyone reads, everyone hears things discussed. Consequently, if you do not listen to Theology, that will not mean that you have no ideas about God. It will mean that you have a lot of wrong ones—bad, muddled, out-of-date ideas. For a great many of the ideas about God which are trotted out as novelties today are simply the ones which real Theologians tried centuries ago and rejected."

— C. S. Lewis

Daily Catholic Wisdom

No mortal eye can mark the boundaries of the communion of saints. For no one knows how far love is able to radiate, how much it can sustain and act on behalf of others.

—Hans Urs von Balthasar
from his book, “You Crown the Year with Your Goodness”

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. Herb Yost, C.S.C.

Father, creator of all, you are the center of all life. Everything in this world points to you and leads us to you. Today, we ask you for the grace to keep you at the center of our lives, to use you as the reference point of all our thoughts, words, and actions. Help us get ourselves out of the center of attention and put you there. In serving you, we hope to give our best selves to all whom we encounter this day. Amen.