Verse of the day
O God, do not keep silent; do not hold your peace or be still, O God!
– Psalm 83:1
Voice of the day
We can learn to work and speak when we are afraid in the same way we have learned to work and speak when we are tired. For we have been socialized to respect fear more than our own needs for language and definition, and while we wait in silence for that final luxury of fearlessness, the weight of that silence will choke us.
– Audre Lorde
Prayer of the day
Breath of Life, let us be wary of our silence when it serves not as a vessel to hear you through, but an excuse to avoid addressing what is harmful.
To identify the movements of the Spirit in our lives, I have found it helpful to use four words: “taken,” “blessed,” “broken,” and “given.” These words summarize my life as a priest because each day, when I come together around the table with members of my community, I take bread, bless it, break it, and give it. These words also summarize my life as a Christian because, as a Christian, I am called to become bread for the world: bread that is taken, blessed, broken, and given. Most importantly, however, they summarize my life as a human being because in every moment of my life somewhere, somehow the taking, the blessing, the breaking, and the giving are happening.You, O Lord, have also known fear. You have been deeply troubled; your sweat and tears were signs of your fear. Make my fear, O Lord, part of yours, so that it will lead me not to darkness but to the light, and will give me a new understanding of the hope of your cross. Amen. — Life of the Beloved: Spiritual Living in a Secular World
Reflection Question: Consider where you experience each of these four words in your life: being taken, being blessed, being broken, and being given.
Verse of the day
He shall judge between the nations and shall arbitrate for many peoples; they shall beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks; nation shall not lift up sword against nation; neither shall they learn war any more.
– Isaiah 2:4
Voice of the day
This isn’t like you. We aren’t killers … There’s no need to dig their graves — they’ve done it themselves. It’s your ideals you’re burying.
– Salar in It Was Just An Accident (2025)
Prayer of the day
God of reinvention, help us forsake petty grudges or rise above deeper wounds when we are tempted to betray our better nature.
Words often leave us with a sense of inner defeat. They can even create a sense of numbness and a feeling of being bogged down in swampy ground. Often they leave us in a slight depression, or in a fog that clouds the window of our mind. In short, words can give us the feeling of having stopped too long at one of the little villages that we pass on our journey, of having been motivated more by curiosity than by service. Words often make us forget that we are pilgrims called to invite others to join us on the journey. Peregrinatio est tacere. “To be silent keeps us pilgrims.” — The Way of the Heart
Verse of the day
Just as water reflects the face, so one human heart reflects another.
– Proverbs 27:19
Voice of the day
We like parted drops of rain / Swelling till they meet and run, / Shall be all absorbed again, / Melting, flowing into one.
– Christopher Pearse Cranch, “Enosis.”
Prayer of the day
Spirit of God, may our care for each other resound in a way that encourages unity to flow.
Be with Jesus. Be quiet. Listen to the one who invites you to his home. Gradually, we will notice that we are in his house not only for that half hour, but also throughout the day. We will discover that we are in the house of the Lord wherever we are and whatever we do. By dwelling with the Lord in prayer, we can live in a hostile, violent, competitive world and be at home. — A Spirituality of Homecoming
Detachment is often understood as letting loose of what is attractive. But it sometimes also requires letting go of what is repulsive. You can indeed become attached to dark forces such as resentment and hatred. As long as you seek retaliation, you cling to your own past. Sometimes it seems as though you might lose yourself along with your revenge and hate – so you stand there with balled-up fists, closed to the other who wants to heal. — With Open Hands
There was that voice, that incredible voice: “You are my beloved son and on you my favor rests.” That’s the voice at the Jordan River, where Jesus heard and believed that he was the beloved of God on whom God’s favor rests. It was as the beloved that Jesus lived his life even in front of the demon. The evil spirit said to him, “Prove that you are the beloved by changing stones into bread and becoming relevant. Prove that you are the beloved by being spectacular and throwing yourself down from the Temple to be saved by God’s angels. You’ll be in the news and on TV so everyone can see how wonderful you are! Prove you are the beloved by having power and influence so you can control the situation.” But Jesus answered, “I don’t have to prove anything. I am the beloved because that’s the voice I heard in the Jordan River. I know that I am the beloved. I have heard the words, ‘You are my beloved. You are my beloved.’” Jesus believed the words and he knew who he was. — Finding My Way Home: Pathways to Life and the Spirit
Verse of the day
Keep awake, therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour.
– Matthew 25:13
Voice of the day
Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, and it does seem to me that notwithstanding all these social agencies and activities there is not that vigilance which should be exercised in the preservation of our rights.
– Ida B. Wells
Prayer of the day
You whose words are a lamp under our feet, help us remain ever-attentive to threats against our liberation and give us courage to fight back.
Each individual Christian and each community of Christians has a unique call. Everybody can’t do everything. You get out and do what the gospel is saying… There are some people who go to prison, who develop a whole nonviolent strategy around that. There are people who live very simple lives of prayer. Some live in monasteries, some as hermits, some in families. There are doctors and lawyers who live as witnesses. There are people who use their wealth to bring about things that otherwise wouldn’t be possible. We have to get in touch with what is our unique vocation, to be a sign of hope in the world without being fanatical and thinking that everyone should do what we do. I need to trust that God will do God’s work through me if I am faithful to my vocation. — The Road to Peace
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