May 15, 2025

Daily Thought from the Saints

"Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them, every day begin the task anew."

— St. Francis de Sales

Daily Scripture Verse

"For I know that my Redeemer lives, and at last he will stand upon the earth; and after my skin has been thus destroyed, then from my flesh I shall see God."

Job 19:25-26

Daily Meditation

"Let us not fancy that if we cry a great deal we have done all that is needed—rather we must work hard and practice the virtues: that is the essential—leaving tears to fall when God sends them, without trying to force ourselves to shed them. Then, if we do not take too much notice of them, they will leave the parched soil of our souls well watered, making it fertile in good fruit; for this is the water which falls from Heaven. ... I think it is best for us to place ourselves in the presence of God, contemplate His mercy and grandeur and our own vileness and leave Him to give us what He will, whether water or drought, for He knows best what is good for us; thus we enjoy peace and the devil will have less chance to deceive us."

— St. Teresa of Avila

Daily Catholic Wisdom

What are you grateful for? What items would you place in the laundry basket and lift up to the Lord in a hymn of praise and thanks? Ingratitude, entitlement, and resentment will always seek a higher place and never be satisfied, while thankfulness happily takes the lowest place because it realizes how much has already been given.

—Bishop Donald Hying
from his book, “Love Never Fails”

A Prayer from Notre Dame University

Rev. Bryan Williams, C.S.C.

Lord, we thank you for the gift of your Son and for his Resurrection. Through his life you have brought us new life. Illumine our hearts and our minds with the light of Christ that we may continue to profess our faith in him and receive him into our hearts. Amen.