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Verse of the Day: My Word Shall Not Return Empty

by the Web Editors 10-13-2009
For as the rain and the snow come down from heaven,

and do not return there until they have watered the earth,

making it bring forth and sprout,

Verse of the Day: Freedom from Death through Christ

by the Web Editors 10-12-2009
So I find it to be a law that when I want to do what is good, evil lies close at hand.

Voice of the Day: Kenneth L. Carder

by the Web Editors 10-12-2009
Christian discipleship requires being held in love and being held accountable. We simply cannot follow Christ apart from a community that holds us in compassion and calls us to accountability.

Prayer of the Day: Dia de la Raza

by the Web Editors 10-12-2009
On this day that we remember the first encounter between Europeans and Native Americans, we pray for the reconciliation of tribes, of peoples, of nations, of ethnicities, of races.

Voice of the Day: C.S. Lewis

by the Web Editors 10-09-2009
I do not see how we could have come to know the greatness of God without that hint furnished by the greatness of the material universe.

Prayer of the Day: Rest

by the Web Editors 10-09-2009
At the end of this week, Lord, we simply take a few moments to rest in your presence and to thank you for sustaining us through the last few days.

Verse of the Day: God Our Refuge

by the Web Editors 10-09-2009
You are indeed my rock and my fortress;

for your name's sake lead me and guide me,

take me out of the net that is hidden for me,

for you are my refuge.

Verse of the Day: "Maintain the Lord's Justice"

by the Web Editors 10-08-2009
Thus says the Lord:

Maintain justice, and do what is right,

for soon my salvation will come,

and my deliverance be revealed.

- Isaiah 56:1

Voice of the Day: Heather King

by the Web Editors 10-08-2009
I do not go to Mass to make myself "better." I go because, in the dimmest reaches of my scattered, angst-ridden mind, there is something that wants me to get down on my knees and, in spit

Prayer of the Day: Matthew 25

by the Web Editors 10-08-2009
Defender of the oppressed, help us to value those you value.

Verse of the Day: "Love your enemies"

by the Web Editors 10-07-2009
If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you?

Prayer of the Day: Spirit of God

by the Web Editors 10-07-2009
Spirit of God, let us be attentive to your leading. May we be open to the surprises you may lay in our path, and respond with courage and boldness to your call.

Voice of the Day: Thomas Merton

by the Web Editors 10-07-2009

To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love. Love is my true identity. Selflessness is my true self. Love is my true character.

Prayer of the Day: Trust

by the Web Editors 10-06-2009
In these uncertain times, help us to trust you more. Grant us peace, patience and perseverance to give our situations over to you. And bring us through our times of trial.

Voice of the Day: Lisel Mueller

by the Web Editors 10-06-2009
Hope ...
is the singular gift
we cannot destroy in ourselves,
the argument that refutes death,
the genius that invents the future,
all we know of God.

Verse of the Day: "Wells of salvation"

by the Web Editors 10-06-2009
With joy you will draw water from the wells of salvation. And you will say in that day:

Give thanks to the Lord,

call on the Lord's name;

Prayer of the Day: Seeing the Image

by the Web Editors 10-05-2009
Creator of all people, help us to see your image in every person we meet, to see the value that you have placed in each individual.

Verse of the Day: "Be merciful"

by the Web Editors 10-05-2009
Be merciful, just as your Lord is merciful.

- Luke 6:36

Voice of the Day: Ralph Waldo Emerson

by the Web Editors 10-05-2009
If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore; and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God which had been shown!

Verse of the Day: "The Lord will again have compassion"

by the Web Editors 10-02-2009
The Lord will again have compassion upon us,

and will tread our iniquities under foot.

The Lord will cast all our sins into the depths of the sea.