Daily Thought from the Saints
"Don't spend your energies on things that generate worry, anxiety and anguish. Only one thing is necessary: Lift up your spirit, and love God."
— St. Padre Pio
Daily Scripture Verse
"In him you also, who have heard the word of truth, the gospel of your salvation, and have believed in him, were sealed with the promised holy Spirit, which is the first installment of our inheritance toward redemption as God’s possession, to the praise of his glory."
Ephesians 1:13-14
Daily Meditation
"We should recall that no man is an island, entire of itself. Our lives are involved with one another, through innumerable interactions they are linked together. No one lives alone. No one sins alone. No one is saved alone. The lives of others continually spill over into mine: in what I think, say, and do, and achieve. And conversely, my life spills over into that of others: for better or for worse. So my prayer for another is not something extraneous to that person, something external, not even after death."
— Pope Benedict XVI
Daily Catholic Wisdom
More souls of the dead from Purgatory than of the living climb this mountain to attend my Masses and seek my prayers.
—St. Padre Pio
Daily Journey with the Pope
“Getting used to rereading one’s own life educates the outlook, it sharpens it, enables it to note the small miracles that good God works for us every day. When we realize this, we notice other possible directions that strengthen our inner taste, peace and creativity. Above all, it makes us freer from toxic stereotypes. Wisely it has been said that the man who does not know his own past is condemned to repeat it. It is strange: if we do not know the path we have taken, the past, we always repeat it, we go around in circles. The person who walks in circles never goes forward; it is not progress, it is like the dog who chases his own tail; he always goes this way, and repeats things.”
Pope Francis
A Prayer
Rev. Herbert Yost, C.S.C.
Zacchaeus, a small little plump man, climbed a tree where he could see Jesus. Jesus looked up: “Come down, Zacchaeus, I want to stay at your house today.” Salvation is here. Forgiveness is offered. Love and mercy are given even to the public sinner. Lord, look on our hopes in the midst of our occasional failures. Offer your forgiveness and invite yourself to be in our hearts today. Amen.
The Abbot’s Daily Lectio Divina
Abbot Austin Murphy, O.S.B., St. Procopius Abbey, Lisle, IL
Psalm 145:10-11
Reading
Let all your works give you thanks, O LORD,
and let your faithful ones bless you.
Let them discourse of the glory of your kingdom
and speak of your might.
Meditation
The faithful are exhorted to ‘discourse of the glory of [God’s] kingdom.’ So, we are to think about and ponder how glorious God’s kingdom is, and will be for us. All wrongs will be righted in that kingdom and there will be nothing further to want, for all our longings will be filled to overflowing. The joy then is presently incomprehensible. In turn, we ‘speak of [God’s] might’ in the resurrection which brings us to that kingdom.
Prayer
May my deepest hope be fixed on attaining Your kingdom. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
Contemplation…