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06/26/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Friday, June 26, 2026

Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 8:1–4
When Jesus came down from the mountain, great crowds followed him. And then a l***r approached, did him homage, and said, “Lord, if you wish, you can make me clean.” He stretched out his hand, touched him, and said, “I will do it. Be made clean.” His leprosy was cleansed immediately. Then Jesus said to him, “See that you tell no one, but go show yourself to the priest, and offer the gift that Moses prescribed; that will be proof for them.”

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus heals a l***r. In our sickness, our weakness, our shame, our sin, our oddness, many of us feel like this l***r. We feel as though we’re just not worthy, that we should keep our distance.

That the l***r came to Jesus tells us the world about this man’s courage, determination, and perhaps his desperation. He was an outsider, a despised figure—yet he came to Jesus.

Once in the Lord’s presence, the l***r “did him homage”—he worshipped him. The suffering man realizes who Jesus is: not one prophet among many but the incarnation of the God of Israel, the only one before whom worship is the appropriate attitude.

Whatever trouble we are in, we have to come to Jesus in the attitude of worship. He is the Lord and we are not. This is the key step in getting our lives in order: right praise.

Then comes the beautiful phrase, essential in any act of petitionary prayer: “If you wish, you can make me clean.” He is not demanding; he is acknowledging the lordship of Jesus, his sovereignty. “Thy will be done” is always the right attitude in any prayer.

06/26/2026

Magnificat meditation of the day
Friday, June 25, 2026

On Asking to Be Healed

It would be the greatest mistake to imagine that God wants us to lie down under every suffering that comes—judging it to be an infidelity if we made the least effort to ease our situation. It is true that in answer to a particular call of grace a soul may feel drawn to such an act of heroic surrender. But in the ordinary way it would be wrong to equate the Christian ideal of sacrifice with supine acceptance. Neither stoicism (the bite-the-bullet-and-don’t-cry-out approach) nor fatalism (the no-use-doing-anything-about-it-because-God-has-decreed-it approach) are Christian perfection. The Christian ideal is shown to us in the garden of Gethsemane: our Lord asking that the suffering might pass from him, while at the same time being ready to bear it if this is the Father’s will.

Suffering and the providence of God have to be understood in faith…. Providence in relation to our sufferings means simply this: that when we have to suffer, we can safely assume that God has allowed this particular trial for our sanctification. The word providence…means “seeing beforehand.” He sees beforehand what is best for us, and we accept what he sends. Divine providence extends equally to things pleasant. God “provides”: he gives the grace to enjoy, he gives the grace to endure. Now one grace, now another: it depends on which grace he sees we need more of at this particular moment….

We have to believe that we are all the time objects of his love, that his wisdom is being brought to bear upon our affairs, and that his power is there to help us. We have to understand why he sent his Son into this world to suffer, and how, by suffering willingly ourselves, we can share in the work of the Passion. We have to accept it as true that the more we pray and try to see Christ in others the more we shall come to appreciate the connection between these things: between God’s love and our pain, between the Father’s will and the Son’s mission, between the Son’s Passion and our own trials, between feeling sorrowful and possessing peace, between the horrors in the world about us and the essential harmony of God’s design.
-Dom Hubert van Zeller, o.s.b.

Dom Hubert van Zeller († 1984) was a Benedictine monk and an artist. From The Mystery of Suffering.

06/26/2026

He who trusts in the Lord, loving mercy surrounds him.
Psalm 32:10

Magnificat Meditation
How often do we rediscover the Psalmist’s insight: hidden guilt ­festers; honest admission of guilt heals!

06/25/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Thursday, June 25, 2026

Twelfth Week in Ordinary Time

Matthew 7:21–29
Jesus said to his disciples: “Not everyone who says to me, ‘Lord, Lord,’ will enter the Kingdom of heaven, but only the one who does the will of my Father in heaven. Many will say to me on that day, ‘Lord, Lord, did we not prophesy in your name? Did we not drive out demons in your name? Did we not do mighty deeds in your name?’ Then I will declare to them solemnly, ‘I never knew you. Depart from me, you evildoers.’

“Everyone who listens to these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. But it did not collapse; it had been set solidly on rock. And everyone who listens to these words of mine but does not act on them will be like a fool who built his house on sand. The rain fell, the floods came, and the winds blew and buffeted the house. And it collapsed and was completely ruined.”

When Jesus finished these words, the crowds were astonished at his teaching, for he taught them as one having authority, and not as their scribes.

Friends, in today’s Gospel, Jesus gives us the parable about building on rock or on sand. On what precisely is the whole of your life built?

Your heart is your deep center, the place where you are most authentically yourself. That is your point of contact with God. There you will find the energy that undergirds the other areas of your life: physical, psychological, emotional, relational, and spiritual.

If you are rooted in God at the level of your heart, then you will be following the intentions and commands of God, and you can withstand anything. But this does not mean that if we follow God’s commands, the winds and floods will not come.

In Jesus’s parable, both builders, the one who follows the commands of God and the one who doesn’t, experience the rain and the floods that symbolize all the trials and temptations and difficulties at the surface of life. But if at the very center of your life you are linked with God—that power that is here and now creating the cosmos—then the storms and floods will come, but they will not destroy you.

06/25/2026

Let the Lord, your God, show us what way we should take and what we should do.
Jeremiah 42:3

Magnificat Meditation
Let us put into God’s hands our heart, our soul, the deep recesses of our being wherein dwell those beliefs and thoughts that govern our actions, so that he may guide us in the ways of the Gospel.

06/25/2026

Daily Gospel Reflections
From Bishop Robert Barron

Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist

Luke 1:57–66, 80
When the time arrived for Elizabeth to have her child she gave birth to a son. Her neighbors and relatives heard that the Lord had shown his great mercy toward her, and they rejoiced with her. When they came on the eighth day to circumcise the child, they were going to call him Zechariah after his father, but his mother said in reply, “No. He will be called John.” But they answered her, “There is no one among your relatives who has this name.” So they made signs, asking his father what he wished him to be called. He asked for a tablet and wrote, “John is his name,” and all were amazed. Immediately his mouth was opened, his tongue freed, and he spoke blessing God. Then fear came upon all their neighbors, and all these matters were discussed throughout the hill country of Judea. All who heard these things took them to heart, saying, “What, then, will this child be?” For surely the hand of the Lord was with him.

The child grew and became strong in spirit, and he was in the desert until the day of his manifestation to Israel.

Friends, today we celebrate the Solemnity of the Nativity of Saint John the Baptist. From time immemorial, God has sent messengers, prophets, and spokespersons. Think of that whole line of prophets and the patriarchs of Israel.

John the Baptist sums up all of these figures. In the Gospel of John, the Baptist identifies himself as “the voice of one crying out in the desert, ‘Make straight the way of the Lord.’” The point John makes is that Jesus is not just one more biblical figure. He’s something altogether different—not just a speaker of the Word but the Word himself.

We are destined for union with the Word of God, but we don’t get it. Why do we run after everything but Christ? Because there’s something seriously off-kilter in us. But here’s the good news from John’s Gospel: “To those who did accept him he gave power to become children of God.”

We can’t grasp this on our own. God must lift us up. The Word of God, with God from the beginning, does not remain in splendid isolation. It comes down, joins us, and lifts us up. That is the essence of the Christian message.

06/24/2026

Magnificat Mass Meditation
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

Solemnity of the Nativity of John the Baptist

Why does the Church celebrate the birthday of John the Baptist? Because John is the last of all the prophets. Not only his message but his life itself proclaims the coming of Christ. John the Baptist’s mission in life, the purpose of his God-given existence, was to prepare the way of the Lord: “Behold, the Lamb of God!” And John the Baptist’s joyful leap in his mother’s womb reveals what God desires for all of us: to be transformed by the presence of Jesus and Mary. “With John the Baptist, the Holy Spirit begins the restoration to man of ‘the divine likeness,’ prefiguring what he would achieve with and in Christ” (CCC 720).

06/24/2026

The weight of evil in the world seems overwhelming. We feel it everywhere and our effort to resist is smothered. But God does not see things in this way. God must still see the world as good or he would not allow it to continue its existence. He prefers, so St. Augustine tells us, to draw good out of evil rather than not to permit any evil at all."
—Hubert Van Zeller, O.S.B.
An excerpt from The Mystery of Suffering

06/24/2026

Learn to be submissive, putting away the boastful and arrogant stubbornness of your tongue, for it is better for you to be found small and reputable among the flock of Christ than seeming prominent and being deprived of His hope.
St. Clement of Rome

06/24/2026

“Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.” -Pope St. John Paul II

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