“FOR ALL THE SAINTS” - One Bread, One Body, 11/11/2025

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, St. Martin of Tours

Wisdom 2:23—3:9
Psalm 34:2-3, 16-19
Luke 17:7-10
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"FOR ALL THE SAINTS"
"Grace and mercy are with His holy ones." —Wisdom 3:9

The Lord promises that the just who have died will “judge nations and rule over peoples” (Wis 3:8). Jesus said: “I give you My solemn word, in the new age when the Son of Man takes His seat upon a throne befitting His glory, you who have followed Me shall likewise take your places on twelve thrones to judge the twelve tribes of Israel” (Mt 19:28).

Jesus was enthroned at the right hand of the Father after His Ascension (Mk 16:19). We can rely on the saints in heaven “on whose constant intercession in [God’s] presence we rely for unfailing help” (Eucharistic prayer #3). The saints on earth can even do greater by far than Jesus did (Jn 14:12).

However, we have even greater opportunities to exercise our authority in Jesus’ name after we die. Because of His Resurrection victory, we do not lose but gain power after our death (see Mt 22:31-32). Therefore, we should earnestly seek the intercession and ministry of the saints in heaven even more than when they lived on earth (see Rv 5:8). The Lord has planned it this way. We please Him when we claim His victory over death by increasing openness to the ministry of those who have died in Him. “Saints of God, pray for us.”

Prayer: Lord, may I believe in the full Gospel and the full plan of salvation. May I accept all Your promises for my life.

Promise: "I will bless the Lord at all times; His praise shall be ever in my mouth." —Ps 34:2

Praise: St. Martin of Tours led his mother to Jesus and to membership in the Church shortly before she died.



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THE LIFE OF MIRACLES - One Bread, One Body, 11/10/2025

Monday, November 10, 2025, Pope St. Leo the Great

Wisdom 1:1-7
Psalm 139:1-10
Luke 17:1-6

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THE LIFE OF MIRACLES
"If you had faith the size of a mustard seed, you could say to this sycamore, 'Be uprooted and transplanted into the sea,' and it would obey you." —Luke 17:6

The Lord commands us to:

• repent of our own sins before we correct others (Mt 7:5),
• correct our brothers and sisters when they sin (Lk 17:3),
• forgive those who repent of their sins — no matter how many times they sin (Lk 17:3-4),
• forgive those who do not repent and who continue to wrong us (see Lk 23:34), and
• forgive and love our enemies (Mt 5:44), as Jesus does.

It is obviously impossible to obey these commands of Jesus. Correcting others is a dangerous business. People usually don’t like to be corrected. Repenting of sin is humanly impossible, for sin blinds us to our sins. Also, as Alexander Pope said: “To err is human; to forgive is divine.”

Jesus is calling us to do the impossible and to live the life of miracles — miracles of reconciliation, repentance, forgiveness, freedom, holiness, and love. To receive these miraculous graces, we need faith. So let us pray with the apostles: “Increase our faith” (Lk 17:5). By faith, we will conquer kingdoms, obtain God’s promises (Heb 11:33), and live the life of miracles.

Prayer: Father, after I receive several miracles of forgiveness, may I see several miracles of healing.

Promise: "The Spirit of the Lord fills the world, is all-embracing, and knows what man says." —Wis 1:7

Praise: Pope St. Leo the Great had a profound supernatural gift of administration, which was a hallmark of his papacy (see 1 Cor 4:2). He defended the Faith for two decades as a faithful administrator of the mysteries of God (1 Cor 4:1).



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RECONSTRUCTING THE CHURCH - One Bread, One Body, 11/09/2025

Sunday, November 9, 2025, Dedication of the Lateran Basilica in Rome

Ezekiel 47:1-2, 8-9, 12
1 Corinthians 3:9-11, 16-17
Psalm 46:2-3, 5-6, 8-9
John 2:13-22
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RECONSTRUCTING THE CHURCH
"I laid a foundation as a wise master-builder might do, and now someone else is building upon it. Everyone, however, must be careful how he builds." —1 Corinthians 3:10

At Pentecost, the Church began as a network of small, home-based communities. “They devoted themselves to the apostles’ instruction and the communal life” (Acts 2:42). These communities resembled the way Jesus lived with His disciples and twelve apostles. These small, home-based communities were united with the other small, Christian communities in their region and became city-churches, such as Corinth, Rome, Jerusalem, etc. These city-churches were united by the universal Church with other regional networks of communities. In the early 300s, several small, home-based communities in Rome united with other Christian communities. For these communities to come together regularly, the forerunner of the first parish church was built, the church of John Lateran, named after St. John the Baptist and the Lateran family who donated the land. Thus, a parish was originally a small network of small communities.

Parishes have changed over the centuries. Some of these changes have been good, but it is important that a parish be true to its roots. It must be essentially a small network of small Christian communities. However, the parish has not only developed but has essentially changed in much of the Western world. The parish has lost its roots. Therefore, “it is necessary that in light of the faith all rediscover the true meaning of the parish” (Lay Members of Christ’s Faithful People, Pope St. John Paul II, 26). Love the Church (Eph 5:25). Reconstruct it.

Prayer: Father, may small, home-based, Christian "communities decentralize and organize the parish" (The Mission of the Redeemer, Pope St. John Paul II, 51).

Promise: "Zeal for Your house consumes me." —Jn 2:17

Praise: "How lovely is Your dwelling place, O Lord!" (Ps 84:2)



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CONTEMPT OF COURT - One Bread, One Body, 11/08/2025

Saturday, November 8, 2025,

Romans 16:3-9, 16, 22-27
Psalm 145:2-5, 10-11
Luke 16:9-15

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CONTEMPT OF COURT
"What man thinks important, God holds in contempt." —Luke 16:15

God’s thoughts are not our thoughts. He says: “As high as the heavens are above the earth, so high are My ways above your ways and My thoughts above your thoughts” (Is 55:9). Also, God sees things differently than we do. “Not as man sees does God see, because man sees the appearance but the Lord looks into the heart” (1 Sm 16:7).

If we are to have the mind of Christ (1 Cor 2:16), we must not only reject the values of the world but hold them in contempt. Jesus said: “What man thinks important, God holds in contempt” (Lk 16:15). Jesus promised: “The man who loves his life loses it, while the man who hates his life in this world preserves it to life eternal” (Jn 12:25). We love the people of the world, but we hate the world system that ignores and rejects the Lord Jesus. We love the sinner but hate the sin. We crucify our “flesh with its passions and desires” (Gal 5:24) by faith in Jesus, the waters of Baptism, and life in the Spirit.

Let’s not tolerate the evil aspects of the world. Let’s not play games at the foot of the cross. We are either enemies of the world or enemies of the cross. “Unfortunately, many go about in a way which shows them to be enemies of the cross of Christ” (Phil 3:18). “I am talking about those who are set upon the things of this world” (Phil 3:19).

Prayer: Jesus, I'm literally letting the world get away with murder. Come in power to cleanse the temple of my body.

Promise: "Give my greetings to Prisca and Aquila; they were my fellow workers in the service of Christ Jesus and even risked their lives for the sake of mine." —Rm 16:3-4

Praise: Ron gave up watching the news, what the world sees as important, and spent that time in prayer.



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FOUNDER’S DAY - One Bread, One Body, 11/07/2025

Friday, November 7, 2025,

Romans 15:14-21
Psalm 98:1-4
Luke 16:1-8

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FOUNDER'S DAY
"I did not want to build on a foundation laid by another." —Romans 15:20

St. Paul did not want to build on a foundation laid by another evangelist. He realized that the foundation of our Christian life is critical and therefore he wanted to be sure that it was solid. Paul taught: “Everyone, however, must be careful how he builds. No one can lay a foundation other than the one that has been laid, namely Jesus Christ” (1 Cor 3:10-11).

Is your life founded on a total, unconditional commitment to Jesus? In joyful, obedient submission, are you founded on the body of Christ, the Church? (see Eph 2:20; Rv 21:14) Have divine revelation and the Catholic faith “been preached and taught to you in accord with the truth that is in Jesus”? (Eph 4:21) Otherwise, you may have to lay “the foundation all over again” (Heb 6:1). Nevertheless, no matter what it takes, we must have a solid foundation. Jesus promises: “Anyone who hears My words and puts them into practice is like the wise man who built his house on rock. When the rainy season set in, the torrents came and the winds blew and buffeted his house. It did not collapse; it had been solidly set on rock” (Mt 7:24-25). May each of us be able to truthfully say: “I laid a foundation as a wise master-builder might do” (1 Cor 3:10).

Prayer: Father, do in me what You must in order to do through me what You will.

Promise: "The Lord has made His salvation known: in the sight of the nations He has revealed His justice. He has remembered His kindness and His faithfulness." —Ps 98:2-3

Praise: Sister Agnes taught school for many years. She made it a practice to tell each child that she taught how dearly she loved them.

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PARTY-POOPER - One Bread, One Body, 11/06/2025

Thursday, November 6, 2025,

Romans 14:7-12
Psalm 27:1, 4, 13-14
Luke 15:1-10

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PARTY-POOPER
"Rejoice with me." —Luke 15:6, 9

The Father, Son, Spirit, angels, and saints of heaven are constantly rejoicing “over one repentant sinner” (Lk 15:7). The Heavenly Father is throwing a great party on the occasion of our repentance and forgiveness. But we, like the older brother of the prodigal son, often don’t come to the party (Lk 15:28). Some of us are jealous and unforgiving of the forgiven. Others just aren’t that thrilled about sinners repenting, but we’re often excited about money, football, a new car, or a new phone.

Have we ever felt the need to throw a repentance party? How many of us rejoice with heaven through regular monthly Confession? Do we feel excitement and joy every time someone goes into the confessional? Let’s be ambassadors of Christ and ministers of reconciliation (2 Cor 5:18, 20). Let’s go to Confession and invite others to do the same. Throw a Confession party. Invite a few people to Confession. Pray and praise together. Go to Confession individually. Thank the Lord; then celebrate (Lk 15:32).

Prayer: Father, forgive me for turning down your invitation to the party. May I repent, confess, and celebrate Your loving forgiveness in the Sacrament of Reconciliation.

Promise: "But you, how can you sit in judgment on your brother? Or you, how can you look down on your brother? We shall all have to appear before the judgment seat of God." —Rm 14:10

Praise: Fred serves Jesus by lovingly caring for developmentally disabled children.

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THE ONLY AND EVERLASTING DEBT - One Bread, One Body, 11/05/2025

Wednesday, November 5, 2025,

Romans 13:8-10
Psalm 112:1-2, 4-5, 9
Luke 14:25-33

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THE ONLY AND EVERLASTING DEBT
"Owe no debt to anyone except the debt that binds us to love one another. He who loves his neighbor has fulfilled the law." —Romans 13:8

Love has a lot to do with debt. We owe it to one another to love one another (Rm 13:8). Also, we love others by forgiving their debts of sin (Lk 11:4). Moreover, when we are in the debt of sin, and even in debt financially, we are slaves (Rm 7:23; Prv 22:7) and have limited our ability and availability to express our love to others.

To pay our debt of love, we must get out of these other debts by forgiving, repenting, paying, and sacrificing. Jesus has gotten us out of eternal debt by His death on the cross. Therefore, we need not be in any debt other than the debt of gratitude and love which we owe to Him.

“We are debtors, then, my brothers — but not to the flesh” (Rm 8:12). Rather, we are debtors to the Lord. Because we have been forgiven such a great debt of sin (Mt 18:27), we should always be asking the question: “How shall I make a return to the Lord for all the good He has done for me?” (Ps 116:12)

Get rid of all debts except the debt of love. In love, constantly and forever pay your debt to the Lord. Rejoice that you will never be able to pay it, for His love is everlasting and infinite.

Prayer: Father, free me and as many people as possible from financial debt.

Promise: "In the same way, none of you can be My disciple if he does not renounce all his possessions." —Lk 14:33

Praise: Since she got out of debt, Deborah has been able to more easily see God's hand in her life.

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