October 13, 2025
Monday of the 28th Week in Ordinary Time
God our Creator, you gave us the Earth to cultivate and the sun to serve our needs. Help us to spend this Day for your glory and our neighbor’s good. 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
"Cheerfulness prepares a glorious mind for all the noblest acts."
— St. Elizabeth Ann Seton
Daily Scripture Verse
May the Lord increase you and make you overflow with love for one another and for all, even as our love does for you. May the Lord strengthen your hearts, making them blameless and holy before our God and Father at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his holy ones.
I Thessalonians 3: 12-13
Daily Meditation
"The true reason for which God bestows so many graces upon the humble is this, that the humble are faithful to these graces and make good use of them. They receive them from God and use them in a manner pleasing to God, giving all the glory to Him, without reserving any for themselves. ... It is certainly true that he who is humble is also faithful to God, because the humble man is also just in giving to all their due, and above all, in rendering to God the things that are God's; that is, in giving Him the glory for all the good that he is, all the good that he has and for all the good that he does; as the Venerable Bede says: 'Whatever good we see in ourselves, let us ascribe it to God and not to ourselves.' To give thanks to God for all the blessings we have received and are continually receiving is an excellent means of exercising humility, because by thanksgiving we learn to acknowledge the Supreme Giver of every good. And for this reason it is necessary for us always to be humble before God. St. Paul exhorts us to render thanks for all things and at all times: 'In all things give thanks.' (1 Thess. 5:18). 'Giving thanks always for all things.' (Eph. 5:20). But that our thanksgiving may be an act of humility it must not only come from the lips but from the heart, with a firm conviction that all good comes to us through the infinite mercy of God."
— Rev. Cajetan da Bergamo
Day by Day with Mary, the Mother of God
What greater prodigy could the world behold than a woman become the Mother of God, and the God clothed in human flesh? Mary, by her humility, became the mother of her creator. The creator, in his goodness, became the Son of his own creature.
St. Alphonsus Liguori
A Prayer from Notre Dame University
Rev. Andrew Fritz, C.S.C.
Father in Heaven, as he was lifted high on the cross, your son, Jesus Christ, gave us the ultimate sign of your love. Convert our hearts to rely on you. Deepen our faith, help us to carry our own crosses, so that we may place all our hope in your power to save. Amen.
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