Spirit of Generous Abundance, remind us there is always more than enough— enough food, enough love, enough time, enough resources. Help us to see how our disconnected patterns of living amplify our scarcity. Bring us into the joy and challenge of community where bread divided multiplies, where laughter shared overflows. Empower us to share freely from our own abundance with others in need. Slow us down to see how time expands when we breathe and pay attention. Bless us in our efforts to trust in your goodness and love pulsing through the world, sustaining it moment by moment. Give us the courage to speak out when resources are distributed unfairly so that we may remind others there is more to share. Encourage us to release that which we no longer need to hold on to so tightly. Inspire us to live in a way that witnesses to our trust in the lavish fullness of life.
~Christine Valters Paintner, A Book of Everyday Blessings (Ave Maria Press)
To be a Christian now means to have the courage to preach the true teaching of Christ and not be afraid of it, not be silent out of fear and preach something easy that won’t cause problems. — The Violence of Love, p. 16
Verse of the day
Why do you spend your money for that which is not bread and your earnings for that which does not satisfy? Listen carefully to me, and eat what is good, and delight yourselves in rich food.
– Isaiah 55:2
Voice of the day
Some got their miracle. Not being cured or fixed but finding the sustaining power to wake up every day and do what we’re here to do. In spite of the pain. Daily bread.
– Fr. Jud Duplenticy in “Wake Up Dead Man” (2025)
Prayer of the day
God of the ordinary, may the endurances we bear in day-to-day life be a source of proof that we can prosper and enact your desire for wholeness.
If you dare to believe that you are beloved before you were born, you may suddenly realize that your life is very, very special. You become conscious that you were sent here just for a short time, for twenty, forty, or eighty years, to discover and believe that you are a beloved child of God. The length of time doesn’t matter. You are sent into this world to believe in yourself as God’s chosen one and then to help your brothers and sisters know that they are also beloved sons and daughters of God who belong together. You’re sent into this world to be a people of reconciliation. You are sent to heal, to break down the walls between you and your neighbors, locally, nationally, and globally. Before all the distinctions, the separations, and the walls built on the foundations of fear, there was unity in the mind and heart of God. Out of that unity, you are sent into this world for a little while to claim that you and every other human being belongs to that same God of Love who lives from eternity to eternity. — Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit
Reflection Question: Where might God be calling you to break down walls with your neighbors today?
The Lord appeared to us in the past, saying: “I have loved – you with an everlasting love; I have drawn you with unfailing kindness. – Jeremiah 31: 3
Verse of the day
But the Lord said to him, “Peace be to you; do not fear; you shall not die.”
– Judges 6:23
Voice of the day
The worries and desires and hatreds have dwindled, stretched out upon the earth, tired of existing. And at the level of my mouth all I find is the sweet, pure air of calm renunciation.
– Clarice Lispector, “Letters to Hermengardo” (1941)
Prayer of the day
Give us the wherewithal to renounce false witness, and keep us ready to stand true in the face of existential dread.
“If actions speak louder than words, then may we be people of active compassion, mercy and justice, embodying the Holy loud and clear for the world.”
—Richard Bruxvoort Colligan, Exile and Coming Home: An Archetypal Journey through the Scriptures — An Online, Self-Study Retreat
How are you invited to embody the Holy today?
Verse of the day
Let no one despise your youth, but set the believers an example in speech and conduct, in love, in faith, in purity.
– 1 Timothy 4:12
Voice of the day
Despite everything we have been through, we dream beyond what’s possible. All the trauma we’ve accumulated in movement spaces that intentionally exclude our voices have been converted into a choice, to still, change the world.
– Alexa Leclercq
Prayer of the day
God who refuses to disdain the young, let this passion infuse into the world. May our combined efforts lead to multigenerational flourishing.
Verse of the day
Learn to do good; seek justice; rescue the oppressed; defend the orphan; plead for the widow.
– Isaiah 1:17
Voice of the day
Christ himself would agitate against them. He would agitate against the plutocrats and hypocrites who tell workers to go down on their knees and get right with God. Christ, the carpenter’s son, would tell them to stand up on their feet and fight for righteousness and justice on earth.
– Mary Harris “Mother” Jones
Prayer of the day
God who hears our pleas and petitions, transform the hearts of those who malign us so that they may hear us too, and keep us responsive to the causes that agitate us.
Solitude is a way to get a little control over our own inner life. It’s not easy. Once we start spending time alone, we discover how chaotic our minds are. We start thinking about thousands of other things – what we should do, whom we are mad at. If these thoughts come up, gently return to the center. Gradually if you really discover, for instance, that the Lord is your shepherd, you might be able to let go of a few things and be a lot more at peace. You don’t have to be filled with garbage. You can be more centered. — The Road to Peace: Writings on Peace and Justice
A religion of much praying but with hypocrisy in the heart is not Christian. A church that sets itself up only to be well off, to have a lot of money and comfort, but that forgets to protest injustices, would not be the true church of our divine Redeemer. — The Violence of Love, p. 15
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