June 27, 2026

Wednesday of the Eleventh Week in Ordinary Time

Lord, as daylight fills the sky, fill us with your holy light. May our lives mirror our love for you whose wisdom has brought us into being, and whose care guides us on our way. We ask this through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you and the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Daily Thought from the Saints

"In the first place it should be known that if a person is seeking God, his beloved is seeking him much more."

— St. John of the Cross

Daily Scripture Verse

"I tell you, my friends, do not be afraid of those who kill the body but after that can do no more. I shall show you whom to fear. Be afraid of the one who after killing has the power to cast into Gehenna; yes, I tell you, be afraid of that one."

Luke 12:4-5

Daily Meditation

"[The] ultimate end of man we call beatitude. For a man’s happiness or beatitude consists in the vision whereby he sees God in His essence. Of course, man is far below God in the perfection of his beatitude. For God has this beatitude by His very nature, whereas man attains beatitude by being admitted to a share in the divine light."

— St. Thomas Aquinas

Day by Day with Mary, the Mother of God

Upon these two titles, Mother of God and Mary, the mother of humankind, the whole practice of the Catholic’s devotion to the Blessed Mother is built.

—Archbishop Alban Goodier

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Br. Pablo Quan, C.S.C.

Lord Jesus Christ, you instructed your disciples not to perform righteous deeds in order that people may see them. May our prayer, fasting, and almsgiving be motivated by a genuine desire to love and serve God and others. Amen.