Tradition Day by Day

Readings from Church Writers

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Foreword to Tradition Day by Day

Dedication to Tradition Day by Day

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January:
January 1: The Mother of God
January 2: How great is God's goodness
January 3: A slave amidst poverty
January 4: Mary's care
January 5: The road to Christ
January 6: The star still leads us
January 7: A teacher to be imitated
January 8: God made Christ the way itself
January 9: Our second birth
January 10: God made himself visible
January 11: Christ fans our hearts into flames
January 12: You possess nothing that you have not received
January 13: May I always hold fast to my baptism
January 14: The silence
January 15: Let your heart be watchful
January 16: Recognize your dignity, O Christian
January 17: Who is Christ?
January 18: Support the companion of your pilgrimage
January 19: What a mystery!
January 20: Jesus teaches
January 21: The Word of God present to us today
January 22: Divinization
January 23: The gift of the Holy Spirit
January 24: Our neighbors are like our Maker
January 25: Paul's conversion
January 26: Fall in love with true virtue
January 27: Your reward is certain
January 28: The cross exemplifies every virtue
January 29: May your "amen" accord with the truth
January 30: Devotion to prayer
January 31: How sublime the humility of God the most high!
February:
February 1: Keep God's word
February 2: The Presentation of Jesus
February 3: God seeks our service
February 4: Christ: God and man
February 5: Jesus abased himself
February 6: God provides
February 7: Come, Lord, and help me find you
February 8: The one good way
February 9: Unmerited grace
February 10: A happy sin
February 11: Welcoming those who have strayed
February 12: Fix your eyes on Jesus
February 13: The poor save the rich
February 14: Almsgiving
February 15: Repentance
February 16: Centering
February 17: Lent: a special time of renewal
February 18: God's desire for our salvation
February 19: The teachings of God
February 20: Crucify ourselves
February 21: The communion of saints
February 22: The true passover
February 23: Prayer, fasting, and mercy
February 24: Spiritual sacrifice
February 25: God's way is an ascent
February 26: Manna
February 27: The wealth of Christ's love for us
February 28: You are a borrower
February 29: The true worshipers and the true priests
March:
March 1: The act of kindness
March 2: Perfection
March 3: Compassion
March 4: Christ's temptations and our temptations
March 5: Love is strong as death
March 6: Praying with the words that Jesus taught us
March 7: The fragrance of the Son
March 8: Deprive yourself and help the poor
March 9: The sacrifice of bread and wine
March 10: Follow the example of Christ
March 11: Christ teaches us
March 12: Christ's whole life was filled with insults
March 13: We pray to Christ as God
March 14: Christ's goodness toward us
March 15: We must be ready to be crucified
March 16: The leaves, the flowers, and the fruit
March 17: Keep on walking!
March 18: Will you not be crucified for Jesus?
March 19: Joseph, the father of Jesus
March 20: Always ready to forgive
March 21: Christ's patience
March 22: We must rise to holiness
March 23: Mercy and fullness of redemption
March 24: Jesus commends us all to the Father
March 25: The Annunciation
March 26: Our Lord took upon himself our infirmity
March 27: Boast in the Lord
March 28: Impress your death on my heart
March 29: What an example! What a teaching!
March 30: The story
March 31: The marvelous power of the cross
April:
April 1: We must become like Jesus and Mary
April 2: Be converted with a sincere heart
April 3: He destroyed our death
April 4: The value of reading
April 5: I am your forgiveness
April 6: Death became its own death
April 7: The light of day
April 8: You became "Christs"
April 9: The festival of victory
April 10: Walk toward Christ
April 11: The first and second resurrection
April 12: Love your own humanity in Christ
April 13: Grace gives rebirth
April 14: The beginning of a new life
April 15: The oil: Christ's gift
April 16: The invincible charioteer
April 17: A single heart and soul in all who believe
April 18: Christ will justify those who embace the new life
April 19: Woman were the first witnesses of the Lord's resurrection
April 20: Love what is human
April 21: May I find my joy in you
April 22: Peace with God
April 23: The new leaven
April 24: Sing to the Lord a new song
April 25: Mark, the evangelist
April 26: The upward movement
April 27: Then and now
April 28: The interest you owe
April 29: The parchment has been torn up
April 30: God's power in weakness
May:
May 1: Cold love
May 2: The corruption of death no longer holds any power
May 3: Philip and James, apostles
May 4: Christ is our guest
May 5: Out of sight, out of mind
May 6: The Spirit restores our original beauty
May 7: The Holy Spirit
May 8: Christ is a mustard seed
May 9: The power of the mustard seed
May 10: A meal of repentance
May 11: The Lord's creative power
May 12: The bread of life
May 13: The holy elements
May 14: Matthias, the apostle
May 15: Past, present, and future
May 16: Bathed in divine light
May 17: Do not love to be honoured above others
May 18: Without love my confession of Christ will avail me nothing
May 19: Don't forget the presence of Christ
May 20: By falling down, Christ rose up
May 21: A marvelous mix-up!
May 22: We must become peacemakers
May 23: Walk in newness of life
May 24: One God who is always the same
May 25: The Father will give the good Spirit
May 26: Why doubt?
May 27: Think of the cross as an example to inspire you
May 28: A second birth of Christ
May 29: Pupils in the school of Christ
May 30: A love from human partiality
May 31: The Visitation
June:
June 1: Baptism
June 2: God desires not death but faith
June 3: The bread from heaven and the cup of salvation
June 4: The sacraments of life
June 5: The priesthood of Christians
June 6: Our nourishment
June 7: Fulfilled prophecy
June 8: Christ descended so we have to ascend
June 9: The cross, a bridge
June 10: You will endure them in my name
June 11: How we should live here and now
June 12: The desire of the heart
June 13: Actions speak louder than words
June 14: The primacy of love
June 15: We must love the Creator
June 16: Whole nations siezed upon the apostles' teaching
June 17: The believer and the unbeliever
June 18: Keep our tranquility
June 19: Let us put up with bites and blows
June 20: The mental faculty of the soul
June 21: God's union with the beloved
June 22: We have been bought at a great price
June 23: Carrying our own cross
June 24: John the Baptist
June 25: Imitating the Creator's goodness
June 26: Life to me means Christ
June 27: Believe the message of the holy apostles
June 28: The story of God is the human person fully alive
June 29: The fisherman
June 30: Paul
July:
July 1: We must be men and women of action
July 2: Faith for prayer
July 3: Thomas, the apostle
July 4: Peace
July 5: The impact of belief
July 6: Strengthened in temptation
July 7: We sin by consenting
July 8: The empty spirit
July 9: Hope of receiving a return
July 10: Drink!
July 11: Heaven and earth
July 12: We love you with the love you yourself have given us
July 13: The Holy Spirit comes to Christians through Christ
July 14: In charity there is everything
July 15: The fountain of life
July 16: God's gift will be himself
July 17: Christ, our universal pledge
July 18: The homeless
July 19: Restraining the tongue
July 20: Calling for help
July 21: Love follows knowledge of the good
July 22: Forgive and give
July 23: Humility and charity
July 24: Recognize the giver of the gifts
July 25: James, the apostle
July 26: Having been forgiven, be merciful to others
July 27: Weakness becomes strength
July 28: Be eager to serve God in humility
July 29: Martha
July 30: The Church is a garden extending over the whole world
July 31: Let us bind ourselves to Christ
August:
August 1: The law and the prophets will nourish you
August 2: Christ knocks at the disciples' hearts
August 3: Why do we love our neighbour?
August 4: A perfect disciple will be like his master
August 5: Let your light shine
August 6: Transfiguration
August 7: The humble never fall
August 8: Watch and pray
August 9: Building up virtue
August 10: The fire of faith
August 11: The river of grace
August 12: When I love my God!
August 13: Victory is sought by the darts of prayer
August 14: God likens himself to a mother
August 15: The Assumption of Mary
August 16: Friendship
August 17: Listen to the Lord
August 18: Our will wants God
August 19: Relying on the goodness of God
August 20: Inner peace flows from love
August 21: The laws of Christ
August 22: Nature and resurrection
August 23: What God did for us
August 24: Bartholomew, the apostle
August 25: The legacy of the saints
August 26: By the cross the martyrs were strengthened
August 27: Remember, Monica, my mother
August 28: Preaching is sharing
August 29: The pledge of the inheritance
August 30: Never consider hurting your enemy
August 31: Reign with God
September:
September 1: True lovers of God
September 2: We must not pass judgment
September 3: The word of the Lord is the nourishment of the mind
September 4: No backward glances
September 5: Gathering the harvest
September 6: Slothfulness in idle words
September 7: The discipleship of the cross
September 8: The glory of the Virgin was all within
September 9: A wonderful divine work
September 10: Let charity be exercised by your living good lives
September 11: Knowledge and love
September 12: Natural illumination
September 13: Let us take care that we hate no one
September 14: The fruit of the cross
September 15: Our Lady of Sorrows
September 16: The heavenly image within us
September 17: Holy Church is called the body of Christ
September 18: The wedding garment
September 19: Much greater was your mercy
September 20: God protects us
September 21: Matthew, the apostle
September 22: The bishop is a shepherd
September 23: Show generosity to others
September 24: All our love must be fraternal
September 25: Rest in heaven
September 26: Eyes only for the sick
September 27: The service of the poor is to be preferred to all else
September 28: The martyrs suffered in Jesus' presence
September 29: The archangels
September 30: Reading the holy scriptures
October:
October 1: Each little flower
October 2: The angels
October 3: We receive faith as a gift from God
October 4: We should be simple, humble, and pure
October 5: Help and comfort to overcome obstacles
October 6: No anxiety concerning self
October 7: Come to me, Lord
October 8: Give love and receive the kingdom
October 9: The parting words
October 10: Darkness, a barrier
October 11: Suffering with joy
October 12: Take me, Lord
October 13: Lord, save me
October 14: The power of the cross
October 15: Let us always be mindful of Christ's love
October 16: Building the foundation
October 17: The joys of friendship
October 18: Luke, the evangelist
October 19: Abide in Jesus Christ
October 20: Perfect faith
October 21: Who are the poor?
October 22: The Christian mystery
October 23: Look into our own hearts
October 24: How can you believe that you share in eternal life?
October 25: To love and to praise
October 26: Life within us
October 27: The wedding feast
October 28: Christ filled the apostles with his power
October 29: We give our Creator his own image
October 30: God's touch
October 31: Suffering
November:
November 1: All Saints
November 2: All Souls
November 3: Be ready for death
November 4: Communion of nature
November 5: Try to make a change
November 6: The things of heaven
November 7: Our gifts are for everyone
November 8: Love as do the saints
November 9: Heal me
November 10: Take pride in the title of Christian
November 11: The Lord stretches out his hand to help us
November 12: Seeking the lost sheep
November 13: The persecuted Church
November 14: The word of God is like a two-edged sword
November 15: Let us not be found ungrateful
November 16: Patient endurance
November 17: I do want to
November 18: The denarius
November 19: Reflect on the virtues which Christ taught us
November 20: The coming of the King
November 21: The Presentation of Mary
November 22: The power of God and the justice of the eternal king
November 23: Desiring the first place
November 24: Come, Lord
November 25: Thanksgiving
November 26: Let me find you, Lord
November 27: Be on the watch
November 28: That final promised day
November 29: Prepare to meet the Lord
November 30: Andrew, the apostle
December:
December 1: The two comings of Christ
December 2: The great longing
December 3: The liturgy of the veil
December 4: Seeing God
December 5: Prepare the way
December 6: The grace of the first coming and the glory of the last
December 7: The desire of the nations
December 8: No one else has like you been possessed from the first by purifying grace
December 8a: Mary without sin
December 9: God will come openly
December 10: The Book of Life
December 11: Need for a savior
December 12: Be ready
December 13: Christ is the prize and the crown
December 14: My heart is ready
December 15: The prophecy
December 16: God comes to us
December 17: The origins of Jesus
December 18: Our need for a savior
December 19: Announcement of John the Baptist
December 20: Announcement of the birth of Jesus
December 21: Mary's visitation
December 22: Magnificat
December 23: Don't shut out Christ
December 24: The shepherds
December 25: Let us celebrate the coming of our salvation
December 26: The first martyr
December 27: This wonder fills me with amazement
December 28: Christ continues to be born in us
December 29: A love that desires to see God
December 30: The Lord of all stooped down to our level
December 31: People of peace