Daily Thought from the Saints
"It is in the company of Jesus that you work for the glory of God."
— St. John Baptist de la Salle
Daily Scripture Verse
"In contrast, the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, generosity, faithfulness, gentleness, self-control. Against such there is no law. Now those who belong to Christ [Jesus] have crucified their flesh with its passions and desires. If we live in the Spirit, let us also follow the Spirit. Let us not be conceited, provoking one another, envious of one another."
Galatians 5:22-26
Daily Meditation
"Whenever that sacrifice of Christ is memorialized in the Church, there is an application to a new moment in time and a new presence in space of the unique sacrifice of Christ Who is now in glory. In obeying His mandate, His followers would be representing in an unbloody manner that which He presented to His Father in the bloody sacrifice of Calvary. After changing the bread into His Body and the wine into His Blood: He gave it to them (Mark 14:22). By that communion they were made one with Christ, to be offered with Him, in Him, and by Him. All love craves unity. As the highest peak of love in the human order is the unity of husband and wife in the flesh, so the highest unity in the Divine order is the unity of the soul and Christ in communion."
— Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen
Daily Catholic Wisdom
Men always work harder and more readily when they work on that which belongs to them; nay, they learn to love the very soil that yields in response to the labor of their hands, not only food to eat, but an abundance of good things for themselves and those that are dear to them.
— Pope Leo XIII
from “Rerum Novarum”
A Prayer from Notre Dame University
Rev. Brad Metz, C.S.C.
God of wisdom and truth, you reveal to people of faith your oneness amid the diversity and uniqueness in the world around us. Make yourself known to us and to all people, as the one God, living and true. Affirm your truth in our lives so that we may be witnesses of your unchanging presence. May your declared truth in the life and teachings of your Son, our Lord Jesus Christ, be our salvation and guide. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Abbot’s Daily Lectio Divina
Abbot Austin Murphy, O.S.B., St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, IL
Deuteronomy 4:39
Reading
This is why you must now know, and fix in your heart, that the LORD is God in the heavens above and on earth below, and that there is no other.
Meditation
Throughout history humankind has often divided the divine into many gods rather than to acknowledge that there is but one God. Why? Perhaps it is an attempt to avoid giving total submission to the Divine Majesty, for if there are many gods, then one does not wholly submit to any single god, but submits to one god in this area of life and to another in another area. But there is one God over all and we should submit ourselves completely to Him.
Prayer
May all that I do give glory to You, the one true God. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Contemplation…