May 12, 2025

Daily Thought from the Saints

"Our very salvation in Christ consists in the humility of Christ."

St. Augustine of Hippo

Daily Scripture Verse

When Jesus had washed the disciples’ feet, he said to them: “Amen, amen, I say to you, no slave is greater than his master nor any messenger greater than the one who sent him. If you understand this, blessed are you if you do it.

John 13:16

Daily Meditation

“Infinite grief I wish from My creature in two ways: in one way, through her sorrow for her own sins, which she has committed against Me her Creator; in the other way, through her sorrow for the sins which she sees her neighbors commit against Me. Of such as these, inasmuch as they have infinite desire, that is, are joined to Me by an affection of love, and therefore grieve when they offend Me, or see Me offended, their every pain, whether spiritual or corporeal, from wherever it may come, receives infinite merit, and satisfies for a guilt which deserved an infinite penalty, although their works are finite and done in finite time; but, inasmuch as they possess the virtue of desire, and sustain their suffering with desire, and contrition, and infinite displeasure against their guilt, their pain is held worthy. Paul explained this when he said: If I had the tongues of angels, and if I knew the things of the future and gave my body to be burned, and have not love, it would be worth nothing to me. The glorious Apostle thus shows that finite works are not valid, either as punishment or recompense, without the condiment of the affection of love.”

—St. Catherine of Siena

Daily Catholic Wisdom

If I allow strife and stress to destroy my peace, it is because I am not abandoned to your will, not willing to sacrifice and suffer, not willing to let go of my selfish designs for my day or my hour or my moment. If the privilege of serving these precious ones becomes drudgery, it is because I failed to surrender my every moment to you.

—Sherry Boas
from her book “A Mother’s Bouquet Gift Edition: Rosary Meditations and Journal for Moms”

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. Bryan Williams, C.S.C.

Lord, we know that you are our true hope. Help us to know the sound of your voice and to recognize it in others. In tuning our ear to your sound, may we work to share your life with those whom we meet. Amen.