Keep God at the center of your life with Living Faith Daily Devotions for Catholics. Living Faith provides Scripturally based reflections for every day of the year. With reflections, prayers and spiritual resources, Living Faith fosters and promotes daily prayer, reminding Catholics of their call to “pray always” and to be active in service to their church and community. Timely, inexpensive and easy to use, Living Faith will become a cherished part of your daily prayer life. For decades, Living Faith has provided true enrichment that carries readers through their day and beyond.
Mary kept all these things, reflecting on them in her heart. — LUKE 2:19
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Our Source of Help • It was I who brought you up from the land of Egypt, and who led you through the desert for forty years… AMOS 2:10
Keep Calm and… • Then he got up, rebuked the winds and the sea, and there was great calm. MATTHEW 8:26
Blessed Are We • Blessed are those who have not seen and have believed. JOHN 20:29
Interdependence • When Jesus saw their faith, he said to the paralytic, “Courage, child, your sins are forgiven.” MATTHEW 9:2
With All • With all my heart I seek you; let me not stray from your commands. PSALM 119:10
Being Present to the Moment • People do not put new wine in old wineskins. MATTHEW 9:17
Still Astonished? • …and many who heard him were astonished. MARK 6:2
Courage to Reach • She said to herself, “If only I can touch his cloak, I shall be cured.” Jesus turned around and saw her, and said, “Courage, daughter! Your faith has saved you.” MATTHEW 9:21-22
Silent Idols • They have mouths but speak not. PSALM 115:5
Cultivating the Soul • Sow for yourselves justice, reap the fruit of piety; break up for yourselves a new field, for it is time to seek the LORD… HOSEA 10:12
How to Treat a Guest • As you enter a house, wish it peace. MATTHEW 10:12
The Source of Fruit • …because of me you bear fruit! HOSEA 14:9
'Holy, Holy, Holy' • I saw the Lord seated on a high and lofty throne… Seraphim were stationed above… They cried one to the other, “Holy, holy, holy is the LORD of hosts! All the earth is filled with his glory.” ISAIAH 6:1B, 2A, 3
God Calls You • I was a shepherd and a dresser of sycamores. The LORD took me from following the flock… AMOS 7:14-15
'To Do My Duty' • Make justice your aim: redress the wronged, hear the orphan's plea, defend the widow. ISAIAH 1:17
Exercise Your Faith • Unless your faith is firm you shall not be firm! ISAIAH 7:9
Being Childlike • …although you have hidden these things from the wise and the learned you have revealed them to the childlike. MATTHEW 11:25
On Salvation • Salvation we have not achieved for the earth, the inhabitants of the world cannot bring it forth. ISAIAH 26:18
Getting the House in Order • Thus says the Lord: “Put your house in order, for you are about to die.” ISAIAH 38:1
Caring for Those in Need • You do see, for you behold misery and sorrow, taking them in your hands. On you the unfortunate man depends; of the fatherless you are the helper. PSALM 10:14
Our Justice • …like sheep without a shepherd. MARK 6:34
Magdalene's Story • Stop holding onto me… JOHN 20:17
A New Family of Faith • …whoever does the will of my heavenly Father is my brother, and sister, and mother. MATTHEW 12:50
The God Rock • Be my rock of refuge… PSALM 71:3
Surprising Meanings • We are afflicted in every way, but not constrained; perplexed, but not driven to despair; persecuted, but not abandoned; struck down, but not destroyed. 2 CORINTHIANS 4:8-9
Fruit-Bearing • But the seed sown on rich soil is the one who hears the word and...