Jun 18, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 18, 2026
A memorial of his death -- Our Blessed Lord's last meal is more than a meal. It is a memorial of His death. He used bread and wine because these were the two substances which…
Daily Reflections
Daily Reflections with Fulton Sheen
A new reflection from Venerable Fulton Sheen every day, for prayer, meditation, and daily Catholic formation.
Past reflections
Jun 17, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 17, 2026
Mass in Dachau -- A priest who was in the German prison camp Dachau describes the Mass after all the German guards were in bed. He said, “Our lives were in danger if we were ever…
Jun 16, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 16, 2026
We live in Christ -- Chemicals have to die to themselves to live in plants; plants have to be ground beneath the jaws of death to live in animals; and animals have to submit…
Jun 15, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 15, 2026
Christ lives in us -- There are two ways of knowing: knowing from the outside and knowing from the inside, knowing by study and knowing by communion. Hence, sacred scripture…
Jun 14, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 14, 2026
Promise of the Resurrection -- If the Mass had no communion, it would be totalitarianism, because in every communist and fascist state the person gives himself to the state and…
Jun 13, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 13, 2026
How God sees us -- Lovers see one another through rose-colored glasses. At every Mass, at the time of consecration, the heavenly Father sees us through his Son. He sees us…
Jun 12, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 12, 2026
The cross is here -- The Mass is not a new sacrifice. It is the re-presentation in space and time of redemption. Why should we be penalized by the eternal God because of the…
Jun 11, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 11, 2026
Not a souvenir -- The Mass is not a souvenir. When you go to Mass it is not the same as going, for example, to Calvary and chipping away a rock and saying, “This is a souvenir of…
Jun 10, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 10, 2026
The Mass is a drama -- What is the Mass? The Mass is a drama; it's not a tragedy because there's a Resurrection. In every great drama there is first of all the conception of it…
Jun 9, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 9, 2026
Test the spirit -- Foster devotion to the Spirit but, as the Holy Father said, be careful that you do not confuse the psychic and the spiritual. He was referring to this passage…
Jun 8, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 8, 2026
The Spirit changes without changing -- Sacrificial love is the gift of the Spirit, and that changes characters. If the Spirit of Christ possesses a soul, regardless of who it is,…
Jun 7, 2026
Daily Reflection — June 7, 2026
A new love principle -- To illustrate the change the Spirit brings about in us, I think of a boy that I once knew. He would not comb his hair, wash behind his ears, clean his…