Daily Thought From The Saints
“The name Jesus pronounced with reverence and affection, as a kind of power to soften the heart.”
— St. Philip Neri
Daily Scripture Verse
“Hark, your watchmen lift up their voice, together they sing for Joy; for eye to eye they see the return of the Lord to Zion. Break forth together into singing, you wasted plains of Jerusalem; for the Lord has comforted his people, he has redeemed Jerusalem. The Lord has bared his holy arm before the eyes of all the nations; and all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God.”
Isaiah 52:8-10
Daily Meditation
“As we have seen, there is sometimes a big difference between what God is actually asking of us, and what we imagine God is asking. We don’t have the Grace to do what God is not asking of us. But for what he is asking, he has promised us his Grace: God grants what he commands. When God inspires us to do something (if it really is God who is the source of the inspiration), at the same Time God supplies the ability to do it, even if it is beyond our capacity or scares us at the start. Every Motion that comes from God brings both the light to understand what God intends, and the strength to accomplish it: light that illuminates the mind, and strength that gives power to the will.”
— Fr. Jacques Philippe
Daily Catholic Wisdom
Love of ourselves and love of our neighbor ultimately are for God’s sake, as is our love of God. Love then is not essentially a feeling. It is the whole direction our life takes toward our being better integrated in ourselves, in communion with others and in communion with God.
—Fr. Gary Lauenstein
from his book “The Heart of Holiness: Friendship with God and Others”
A Prayer from Notre Dame University
Rev. Jarrod Waugh, C.S.C.
Lord Jesus, we seek to honor you by building up your kingdom, but we know that only by your will can anything enduring come to pass. Give us the courage to invite you into our homes, our lives; though they are humble and cluttered, you desire to enter in and save us. Only say the word and your servants shall be healed. Amen.
The Abbot’s Daily Lectio Divina - Matthew 25:40
Abbot Austin Murphy, OSB – St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, IL
John 3:16
Reading
God so loved the world that he gave his only Son, so that everyone who believes in him might not perish but might have eternal life.
Meditation
God the Father’s gift of eternal life through His Son is not a gift you receive in such a way that you can take it to have on your own terms. You can’t walk away from God with it. Rather, this gift brings you into the life of God, into communion with the Holy Trinity. The gift is a share in God’s own life. Since the gift of the Holy Spirit seals and preserves our entrance into God’s life, we may associate the gift of eternal life with the gift of the Holy Spirit.
Prayer
God, seal me with Your Spirit, that I may live and remain in You. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Contemplation…