June 6, 2026

Saturday of the Ninth Week in Ordinary Time, Optional Memorial of St. Norbert

O God, who in this wonderful Sacrament have left us a memorial of your Passion, grant us, we pray, so to revere the sacred mysteries of your Body and Blood that we may always experience in ourselves the fruits of your redemption. Who live and reign with God the Father in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.

Daily Thought from the Saints

"Do not be anxious: go straight on, forgetful of self, letting the spirit of God act instead of your own."

— St. Julie Billiart

Daily Scripture Verse

"For God did not call us to impurity but to holiness. Therefore, whoever disregards this, disregards not a human being but God, who [also] gives his holy Spirit to you."

1 Thessalonians 4:7-8

Daily Meditation

"As St. Paul points out, Christ never meant that we were to remain children in intelligence: on the contrary. He told us to be not only ‘as harmless as doves’, but also ‘as wise as serpents’. He wants a child’s heart, but a grown-up’s head. He wants us to be simple, single-minded, affectionate, and teachable, as good children are; but He also wants every bit of intelligence we have to be alert at its job, and in first-class fighting trim."

—C.S. Lewis

Day by Day with Mary, the Mother of God

it is because Mary is, of all the saints, the most perfectly poor and the most perfectly hidden, the one who has absolutely nothing. Whatever that she attempts to possess as her own that she can most fully communicate to the rest of us the grace of the infinitely selfless God. And we will most truly possess him and we have emptied ourselves and become poor and hidden as he is, resembling him by resembling her.

—Thomas Merton

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. James Bracke, C.S.C.

Loving Father, may the poor widow move us to trust fully in your providential care. All is yours, and all is your gift. In you, we are enough and have enough. Let us live humbly, love tenderly, and walk justly each day you give us. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.