Daily Reflections
A new reflection from Venerable Fulton Sheen every day, for prayer, meditation, and daily Catholic formation.
Today’s Reflection · Jul 12, 2026
Psychic transference -- Jesus experienced not only physical transference, but he also suffered psychic transference. By psychic transference, I mean that he took upon himself all…
Read today’s reflection →Jul 11, 2026
How he took our sickness -- He took upon Himself our sicknesses and our illnesses. What does sacred scripture mean by that? For about two years I pondered that passage. The…
Jul 10, 2026
The bridegroom and the bride -- One day a woman came to me and told me that she could never love her husband again. I told her to try and think back to how much she loved him the…
Jul 9, 2026
How Christ saw humanity -- Our Lord was hopeful about humanity. He always saw men the way He originally designed them. He saw through the surface, the grime and the dirt, the…
Jul 8, 2026
The sickness and the cure -- Just suppose that there were a great plague which affected a wide area of the world. Then some doctor in his laboratory found the remedy for this…
Jul 7, 2026
A love without limit -- When God with his divine nature came down to this world and took upon himself the human nature from the womb of his Blessed Mother, he took upon himself…
Jul 6, 2026
From without, from within -- Have you ever taken a rose petal into your fingers and pressed and squeezed it? Did you notice whether you could ever restore its tint? You could…
Jul 5, 2026
Justice as well as Mercy -- If we owe somebody twenty dollars, the debt can be forgiven, but justice is not satisfied unless we completely pay the debt. I can remember that as a…
Jul 4, 2026
Freedom and Evil -- A man who is free to love is free to hate. He who is free to obey is free to rebel. Virtue in its concrete order is possible only in those spheres in which it…
Jul 3, 2026
God’s choice -- The choice before God in creating the world lay between creating a purely mechanical universe, peopled by mere automatons, or creating a spiritual universe in…
Jul 2, 2026
Why God made the universe -- What purpose did God have in mind in making this world? The answer is that God intended to build a moral universe. He willed from all eternity to…
Jul 1, 2026
How God works -- God works upon your soul. He does not work like a key in a lock; He works less visibly than a father on a son, but His love speaks to our freedom in the same…