September 30, 2025

Memorial of St. Jerome

Father, you gave St. Jerome delight in his study of holy Scripture. May your people find in your word the food of salvation and the fountain of life. 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

“God loves those who think him even in suffering.”

— St. Arnold Janssen

Daily Scripture Verse

“It is he who made the earth by his power, who established the world by his wisdom, and by his understanding stretched out the heavens.”

Jeremiah 10:12

Daily Meditation

“I believe that if those souls that tend towards sanctity were instructed as to the conduct they ought to follow, they would be spared a good deal of trouble. I speak as much of people in the world as of others. If they could realize the merit concealed in the actions of each moment of the day: I mean in each of the daily duties of their state in life… They would indeed be happy. If, besides, they understood that to attain the utmost height of perfection, the safest and surest way is to accept the crosses sent them by Providence at every moment that the true philosopher’s stone is submission to the will of God which changes into Divine Gold all their occupations, troubles, and sufferings, what consolation would be theirs! What courage would they not derive from the thought that to acquire the friendship of God, and to arrive at eternal glory, they had but to do what they were doing, but to suffer what they were suffering, and that what they wasted and counted as nothing would suffice to enable them to arrive at eminent sanctity: Far more so than extraordinary states and wonderful works.”

—Fr. Jean-Pierre De Caussade

Day by Day with Mary, the Mother of God

The flower became a fruit for us to eat and be nourished by it. The son is born of the Virgin, the Lord of the maiden, God of humankind, the son and of the mother, the fruit of the earth.

St. Jerome

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. Steve Gibson, C.S.C.

Dear Lord, help us be resolute in following through on our commitments. Let us have the wisdom to say “Yes” to what really matters, and the discipline to keep our word. We ask your courage to say “No” to that which pulls us out of balance with you. Amen.