this is our daily bread

Devotions

Begin Your Day in Prayer

Sign up to receive our daily devotions straight to your inbox. It's the best way to begin.

{formbuilder:MTAxMDE1}

Our Longing Is from Him - Blessed Is She

Our Longing Is from Him

I long to see your face, O Lord. // Responsorial Psalm 27:8b As I was finding my place in the confessional line the weekend before Holy Week, I was comforted...
June 10, 2022
Return His Goodness - Blessed Is She

Return His Goodness

How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good he has done for me? // Responsorial Psalm He laid there with a complete awareness of his...
May 07, 2022
The Stones We Throw - Blessed Is She

The Stones We Throw

So they picked up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid and went out of the temple area. // John 8:59 I was in my last year of undergrad...
April 07, 2022
Return With Your Whole Heart - Blessed Is She

Return With Your Whole Heart

Even now, says the LORD, return to me with your whole heart, for I am gracious and merciful. // Joel 2:12 Today’s readings are so abundant I wasn’t sure where...
March 24, 2022
Trade Scrolling for Obedience - Blessed Is She

Trade Scrolling for Obedience

“If your hand causes you to sin, cut it off. It is better for you to enter into life maimed than with two hands to go into Gehenna, into the...
February 24, 2022
Stretch Out Your Hand to Love - Blessed Is She

Stretch Out Your Hand to Love

“Looking around at them with anger and grieved at their hardness of heart, Jesus said to the man, ‘Stretch out your hand.’ He stretched it out and his hand was...
January 19, 2022
Go in Haste with Chicken Pot Pie - Blessed Is She

Go in Haste with Chicken Pot Pie

"Mary set out and traveled to the hill country in haste to a town of Judah, where she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth." // Luke 1:39 She...
December 19, 2021
Amaze Jesus with Your Faith - Blessed Is She

Amaze Jesus with Your Faith

I realize my desire to have a welcoming home for Jesus comes at my family’s expense. “Put your toys away. Let’s try to keep the house tidy for Jesus’ birthday....
November 29, 2021
Persistence in Couponing, Persisting in Faith - Blessed Is She

Persistence in Couponing, Persisting in Faith

I wouldn’t say my mom is a coupon queen exactly. I have seen coupon queens, and they don’t mess around. They carry around their coupons in alphabetical order and keep...
November 13, 2021
The Interior Life Longs to See Him - Blessed Is She

The Interior Life Longs to See Him

The last time I had visited Mountain Charleston, I wasn’t a wife or a mother yet. This time, I stood, surveying the pine trees in front of me, inhaling the...
October 24, 2021
The Word Resides in You - Blessed Is She

The Word Resides in You

The last two summers our parish has been blessed by the presence of a visiting priest from Chicago, Illinois. His homilies exude deep interior reflection with the gentleness of a...
September 01, 2021
Never Out of God's Sight - Blessed Is She

Never Out of God's Sight

I arrived in Puebla, Mexico in January 2007, grieving the loss of my father the past October. I was ready to unleash my hurt, anger, and rebelliousness in a land...
August 25, 2021