September 2, 2025

Memorial of Pope St. Gregory the Great, Doctor of the Church

Father, you guide your people with kindness and govern us with love. By the prayers of St. Gregory give the spirit of wisdom those you have called to lead your Church. May the growth of your people in holiness be the eternal joy of your shepherds. 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

We must know that we have been created for greater things, not just to be a number in the world, not just to go for diplomas and degrees, this work and that work. We have been created in order to love and to be loved.

—St. Mother Teresa of Calcutta

“I am sent not only to love God but to make Him loved. It is not enough for me to love God, if my neighbor does not love him.”

— St. Vincent De Paul

Daily Scripture Verse

“Therefore, we are not discouraged; rather, although our outer self is wasting away, our inner self is being renewed day by day. For this momentary light affliction is producing for us an eternal weight of glory beyond all comparison, as we look not to what is seen but to what is unseen; for what is seen is transitory, but what is unseen is eternal.”

2 Corinthians 4:16-18

Daily Meditation

“Even though we know that God’s will and Commandments apply to everyone, we do not always have the strength to fulfill them. Now, every time we respond faithfully to a motion of the spirit, out of desire to be docile to what God expects of us, even if it’s something almost insignificant of itself, that faithfulness draws grace and strength down on us. That strength can then be applied to other areas and may make us capable of one day practicing the commandments that up until then we had not been capable of fulfilling entirely.”

— Fr. Jacques Philippe

Day by Day with Mary

After partaking of the Living Bread, remember what our Lady Foster felt when the Holy Spirit overpowered her, and she was full of grace became full with the body of Christ. Blessed Teresa of Calcutta

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. LeRoy Clementich, C.S.C.+

Father in heaven, from the days of Abraham and Moses, until our own day you have formed a people in the image of your Son. Bless your people with the gift of your kingdom. May we serve with our every desire and show love one for another even as you have loved us. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.