Daily Thought from the Saints
"Be one of the small number who find the way to life, and enter by the narrow gate into Heaven. Take care not to follow the majority and the common herd, so many of whom are lost. Do not be deceived; there are only two roads: one that leads to life and is narrow; the other that leads to death and is wide. There is no middle way."
— St. Louis de Montfort
Daily Scripture Verse
"Strengthen the weak hands, and make firm the feeble knees. Say to those who are of a fearful heart, "Be strong, fear not! Behold, your God will come with vengeance, with the recompense of God. He will come and save you.""
Isaiah 35:3-4
Daily Meditation
"What is this brightness—with which God fills the soul of the just—but that clear knowledge of all that is necessary for salvation? He shows them the beauty of virtue and the deformity of vice. He reveals to them the vanity of the world, the treasures of grace, the greatness of eternal glory, and the sweetness of the consolations of the Holy Spirit. He teaches them to apprehend the goodness of God, the malice of the evil one, the shortness of life, and the fatal error of those whose hopes are centered in this world alone. Hence the equanimity of the just. They are neither puffed up by prosperity nor cast down by adversity.'A holy man', says Solomon, 'continueth in wisdom as the sun, but a fool is changed as the moon.' (Ecclus. 27:12). Unmoved by the winds of false doctrine, the just man continues steadfast in Christ, immoveable in charity, unswerving in faith."
— Venerable Louis of Grenada
Daily Catholic Wisdom
O you small, everyday sacrifices, you are to me like wild flowers which I strew over the feet of my beloved Jesus. I sometimes compare these trifles to the heroic virtues and that is because their enduring nature demands heroism.
—St. Faustina
from “Divine Mercy in My Soul”
Daily Journey with the Pope
“Familiarity with God can melt doubts and fears in a gentle way… It is said that two spouses who have lived together for so long loving each other end up resembling each other. Something similar can be said about affective prayer: in a gradual but effective way it makes us more and more able to recognize what counts through connaturality, as something that springs from the depths of our being.”
Pope Francis
A Prayer
Rev. Herbert Yost, C.S.C.
Father, we are grateful that you have chosen to have an intimate relationship with each of us, one that is nurtured by the words of Jesus and the power of the Holy Spirit. You seek us out and ask us to be your presence in the world. You also give us the key to your heart, the words to be spoken in our time of prayer. For this we thank you and praise you. Amen.
The Abbot’s Daily Lectio Divina - Matthew 6:9-10
Abbot Austin Murphy, O.S.B., St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, IL
Reading
Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name; thy kingdom come; thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
Meditation
When we pray that God’s will be done, we of course pray that we ourselves will do it. Now, if I am to do anything, I must first will it. So, to do God’s will, I must first will it. Therefore, when I pray that God’s will be done, I am making a prayer that concerns my will -- namely, that I will will what God wills. I am not erasing my will with this prayer, therefore, but I am calling it into action.
Prayer
With my will, Almighty God, may I seek to know, may I want, and may I command my actions to conform to Your will. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Contemplation…