LIVE IT TODAY: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
Remember what I have done for you—do not let fear blind you to My faithful provision.
LIVE IT TODAY: Tuesday, February 17, 2026
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GOD’S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
Remember what I have done for you—do not let fear blind you to My faithful provision.
INVOCATION
Come, Holy Spirit! Through the intercession of Our Blessed Mother Mary, open my heart to hear and receive all that You desire for me. Draw me ever more deeply into the Love and Life of the Blessed Trinity!
GOSPEL | Mark 8:14-21
The disciples had forgotten to bring bread,
and they had only one loaf with them in the boat.
Jesus enjoined them, “Watch out,
guard against the leaven of the Pharisees
and the leaven of Herod.”
They concluded among themselves that
it was because they had no bread.
When he became aware of this he said to them,
“Why do you conclude that it is because you have no bread?
Do you not yet understand or comprehend?
Are your hearts hardened?
Do you have eyes and not see, ears and not hear?
And do you not remember,
when I broke the five loaves for the five thousand,
how many wicker baskets full of fragments you picked up?”
They answered him, “Twelve.”
“When I broke the seven loaves for the four thousand,
how many full baskets of fragments did you pick up?”
They answered him, “Seven.”
He said to them, “Do you still not understand?”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
Spiritual forgetfulness hardens the heart and shrinks faith to what we can see.
The scene is almost ironic. The disciples are in the boat with Jesus—after witnessing two miraculous multiplications of bread—and yet they panic over a missing loaf. Anxiety clouds memory. Fear narrows perspective. They reduce His warning about “leaven” to literal bread.
Leaven in Scripture symbolizes influence. A small amount works through the whole batch. The leaven of the Pharisees is religious pride; the leaven of Herod is worldly compromise. Both distort perception. Both ferment the heart slowly, invisibly, until faith becomes rigid or diluted.
Jesus’ questions are piercing. Do you not remember? In the biblical tradition, remembering is not mental recall; it is covenant awareness. To remember is to let past grace shape present trust. Forgetfulness leads to hardness, and hardness leads to blindness.
The disciples’ problem is not lack of evidence but lack of integration. They have seen miracles, but the memory has not yet transformed their hearts. We can witness God’s faithfulness and still live as if we are alone.
This dynamic quietly infiltrates family life. We worry about finances after past provision. We doubt reconciliation after previous healing. Children learn from our reactions whether God’s faithfulness is real or rhetorical.
The boat holds one loaf—and the Bread of Life Himself. Fear fixates on scarcity; faith recognizes Presence. Small compromises in trust, like leaven, reshape the whole interior climate of a home.
Build saint-forming homes by remembering aloud God’s past faithfulness, pray over your children by name that their hearts remain soft and attentive, and act decisively in the power of the Holy Spirit, refusing the subtle leaven of fear, pride, or compromise that hardens faith.
“Thus the principal object of the plan of revelation is to invite and receive men into communion with himself.” (CCC 51)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
In My Heart: Where have I forgotten God’s past faithfulness and allowed fear to take root?
In My Home: How can we intentionally recall and celebrate moments of grace together?
In My World: What quiet compromise might be shaping my perspective more than Christ’s truth?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, recall one specific way God has provided or protected your family in the past.
Then pray together aloud. As parents, place a hand on each person and pray over them by name, asking that they know God’s love personally, be freed from the Enemy’s lies of scarcity and doubt, be strengthened to overcome temptation, and be filled with courageous remembrance of God’s goodness.
Daily Challenge: Write down one answered prayer from the past year and thank God for it together.
DAILY PARENT & GRANDPARENT BLESSING
LORD JESUS CHRIST, let Your holy anointing be upon each of our children, grandchildren, and godchildren this day and week, including all to whom they are called in vocation, and all future generations! In Your Sacred Name we claim them for You! We renounce all whispers, lies, and influences of the Enemy! We pray right now that each know Your loving Presence, be forged in virtue, and be flooded with an abundance of Your Holy Spirit to live fully their identity and mission in You now and through all eternity, through the intercession of our Blessed Mother! Amen.
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GOING VERTICAL
“Be still and know that I am God.” Psalm 46:10
Just as the vertical beam upholds the horizontal beam of the Cross, so too does undistracted, dedicated daily turning to God as our lifeblood uphold and strengthen every part of life. Start with just three minutes. Wait patiently for the breakthrough beyond the noise. Let Him speak.
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