Posted: June 5, 2025
“This theme is beautifully remembered in a text from the liturgy of the Eastern Church. ‘Since it brings life, the tomb of Jesus is lovelier indeed than paradise. It is the fountain from which our resurrection springs.…’” –Father Alfred McBride, O. Praem (+ 2020) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a Constitution that functions
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Posted: June 4, 2025
“Rightly understood, the imitation of Jesus Christ is the very essence of the Christian life. We must have in us the mind that Christ had; we must be crucified and buried and rise with him.” –Father Louis Bouyer (+ 2004) Intention: Lord, please bless us with a society that seeks Your face and prays
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Posted: June 3, 2025
“Christ is…the divine Head of the Body that is the Church, the Head whence she receives all life and light. He is the Bridegroom and she is the Bride, two in one flesh…. Christ is not a part of the Church; rather, the Church might be called a part of Christ, grafted upon him, living
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Posted: June 2, 2025
“But I sometimes need to see and maybe you, too, and so we thank God that along our path he has provided tangible, visible historical witnesses in the saints for this [God’s] victory: people like us, people of every kind, fraught, foolish, embattled ones, people in darkness, distress, and temptation, people in whom nevertheless the
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Posted: June 1, 2025
“The saint is the person in whom God’s victory over sin has been revealed… this person like you and me, this tempted, frail, ill-disposed person struggling in impossible situations, free from the ‘ancient bondage’ under which we all moan and writhe. From a certain hour, which only God knows, he no longer fell or escaped
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Posted: May 31, 2025
“The Spirit who calls to mind is called Paraclete. The word admits of a range of interpretations. Current versions put ‘Comforter,’ ‘Advocate,’ or, as above, ‘Counselor.’ These various readings reveal different shades of an experience of inner strengthening. The Spirit is the heart’s companion, the filler of our solitude.” –Bishop Erik Varden, O.C.S.O. Intention:
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Posted: May 30, 2025
“Christ reigns, sitting at the right hand of the Father; and he calls, he summons, he urges that his own receive the kingdom from him. Let every soul avid for his glory hurry to him, let it pursue such a king, that it may receive power from him….” –Saint Quodvultdeus of Carthage (+ 450)
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Posted: May 29, 2025
“The Christian glimpses Christ, worthy of total dedication, in his poor, small, suffering brother, where the mystical image of the heavenly Jesus, according to his divine word, is embodied in human, earthly suffering…. Amen, I say to you, whatever you did for one of these least brothers of mine, you did for me. Thus Christ’s Ascension
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Posted: May 28, 2025
“The Ascension attracts and fixes the gaze of our souls toward this splendid and luminous figure of the Lord, who rises in the heavens…. How full of spiritual beauty [is the] real sacramental presence of that same Jesus, the Christ, Son of God and Son of Man, whose heavenly and eternal triumph the Church celebrates
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Posted: May 27, 2025
“[T]he Ascension cloud recalls the cloud that covered the Mount of Transfiguration, from which, Luke tells us, the Father’s voice announced, This is my beloved Son. It also points forward to the Lord’s definitive coming at the end of time. Again Luke gives us the very words of Jesus: Speaking of tribulations to come, he assures
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