Category: Daily Promises

We are “sorrowful, though we are always rejoicing; poor, yet we enrich many. We seem to have nothing, yet everything is ours!” –2 Corinthians 6:10 Mass Readings: June 19 First: 2 Corinthians 6:1-10; Resp: Psalm 98:1-4; Gospel: Matthew 5:38-42 Listen to the Mass Readings When we were baptized, all heaven broke loose. We were begotten from above, born again (Jn 3:3, 5), and adopted as children of God. Our bodies were made temples of the Holy Spirit (1 Cor 6:19). We became “a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation” (1 Pt 2:9). The Holy Trinity came to live...

“The man who feeds on My flesh and drinks My blood remains in Me, and I in him.” –John 6:56 Listen to the Mass Readings This book, One Bread, One Body, is written to motivate you to go to Mass daily or as often as possible. Our prayer is that you would live the Mass and make our eucharistic Lord the center of your life. Jesus proclaimed: “The bread I will give is My flesh, for the life of the world” (Jn 6:51). This is a hard saying, and “the Jews quarreled among themselves” about it (Jn 6:52). “Thereupon Jesus...

“He died for all so that those who live might live no longer for themselves, but for Him Who for their sakes died and was raised up.” –2 Corinthians 5:15 Mass Readings: June 17 First: 2 Corinthians 5:14-21; Resp: Psalm 103:1-4,9-12; Gospel: Matthew 5:33-37 Listen to the Mass Readings Jesus died for us – not only for our benefit, but in our place. Once we accept the grace to believe this, the love of Christ impels us to live no longer for ourselves but for Him Who died for us and was raised up (2 Cor 5:14-15). After grace and...

“Continually we carry about in our bodies the dying of Jesus, so that in our bodies the life of Jesus may also be revealed.” –2 Corinthians 4:10 Mass Readings: June 16 First: 2 Corinthians 4:7-15; Resp: Psalm 116:10-11,15-18; Gospel: Matthew 5:27-32 Listen to the Mass Readings Each day, we human beings are one day closer to death. “Death is at work in us” (2 Cor 4:12). Some would wryly agree with the observation that our churches are full of dead people. Jesus Himself told the church of Sardis: “You are dead!” (Rv 3:1) In one sense, our churches should be...

“Whenever he turns to the Lord, the veil will be removed.” –2 Corinthians 3:16 Mass Readings: June 15 First: 2 Corinthians 3:15–4:1,3-6; Resp: Psalm 85:9-14; Gospel: Matthew 5:20-26 Listen to the Mass Readings Because of our sinful nature, a veil obstructs our understanding of the Bible. Only by turning to Jesus and the Holy Spirit is this veil removed (2 Cor 3:14-17). If we turn to the Lord, we will gaze on His glory with unveiled faces and be “transformed from glory to glory into His very image by the Lord Who is the Spirit” (2 Cor 3:18). If we...