2nd Sunday of Easter – Mercy Sunday
God of everlasting mercy, who in the very recurrence of the paschal feast kindle the faith of the people you have made your own, increase, we pray, the grace you have bestowed, that all may grasp and rightly understand in what font they have been washed, by whose Spirit they have been reborn, by whose Blood they have been redeemed. Through our Lord Jesus Christ, your Son, who lives and reigns with you in the unity of the Holy Spirit, God, for ever and ever. Amen.
Daily Thought from the Saints
"I will simply counsel every man and woman to beware of even the very least speck of [pride], which seems to me to be the mere delight and liking of ourselves for anything whatsoever that either is in us or outwardly belongs to us."
— St. Thomas More
Daily Scripture Verse
"The Lord is your keeper; the Lord is your shade on your right hand. The sun shall not smite you by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord will keep you from all evil; he will keep your life. The Lord will keep your going out and your coming in from this time forth and for evermore."
Psalm 121:5-8
Daily Meditation
"For it was while Eve was yet a virgin that the ensnaring word had crept into her ear which was to build the edifice of death. Into a virgin’s soul, in like manner, must be introduced that Word of God which was to raise the fabric of life; so that what had been reduced to ruin by this sex might by the selfsame sex be recovered to salvation. As Eve believed the serpent, so Mary believed the angel. The delinquency which the one occasioned by believing, the other effaced by believing."
— Tertullian
Day by Day with Mary, the Mother of God
Hail, O Mary, Mother of God! Through you came to us the conqueror and triumphant vanquisher of hell.
—St. Cyril of Alexandria
A Prayer from Notre Dame University
Rev. Ronald Patrick Raab, C.S.C.
O Risen Christ, you shattered the fear of your followers and offered your expression of peace. May we listen with genuine love to your voice when we are afraid. May your resurrection claim our hearts with the peace you whisper. May we peer into your redeemed wounds so we may serve the wounded ones on earth today. May we feed the hungry, comfort the ill, serve the anguished, and offer your concord in every broken relationship. May our hearts proclaim you as Lord and God. Amen.