LIVE IT TODAY: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
I desire truth in your inmost being. Let Me bring you to life from the inside out.
LIVE IT TODAY: Wednesday, August 27, 2025
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GOD'S DECLARATION TO YOU TODAY
I desire truth in your inmost being. Let Me bring you to life from the inside out.
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 | Matthew 23:27–32
Jesus said,
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You are like whitewashed tombs, which appear beautiful on the outside,
but inside are full of dead men's bones and every kind of filth.
Even so, on the outside you appear righteous,
but inside you are filled with hypocrisy and evildoing.
“Woe to you, scribes and Pharisees, you hypocrites.
You build the tombs of the prophets
and adorn the memorials of the righteous,
and you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our ancestors,
we would not have joined them in shedding the prophets' blood.’
Thus you bear witness against yourselves
that you are the children of those who murdered the prophets;
now fill up what your ancestors measured out!”
EVERY DAY QUESTION
What struck you? Challenged you? Inspired you? What questions did it raise?
GOING DEEPER
Alive or Just Decorated?
Jesus’ words aren’t just strong—they’re devastating. The phrase whitewashed tombs would have immediately evoked an image familiar to Jews: tombs whitened during Passover season to warn pilgrims not to become ritually impure by touching them. These tombs looked bright and beautiful, but inside was rot and death. Jesus is warning that a life that appears “put together” without true transformation is spiritual death in disguise.
Let that settle in. You can look like a good Catholic—go to Mass, volunteer, tithe—and still be rotting inside. You can honor saints and prophets while ignoring or rejecting their message, just like the Pharisees honored the prophets their ancestors murdered.
The key word here is hypocrisy, from the Greek hypokrisis—meaning to wear a mask, to pretend. Jesus isn’t condemning sinners—He’s condemning pretenders.
This call is urgent for our homes. Parents, we cannot pass on a living faith to our children if what they see is mostly performance. They need to see us pray—not just formally, but personally and passionately. They need to see us repent, admit failure, ask forgiveness. They need to hear us speak of Jesus not as a concept, but as the living One who speaks, heals, and saves.
The goal isn’t to be perfect—it’s to be real. Real in our hunger for God. Real in our battle against sin. Real in our mission to love our family into holiness, not just to make them behave.
And this takes courage. It’s easier to stay behind the mask—to go through the motions, to coast on appearances. But the life Jesus offers is not for the polished, it’s for the surrendered.
Today, drop the act. Invite Jesus into the dead places. Speak His name aloud in your home. Pray over your family. Let them see that the God you talk about is real, alive, and calling you deeper.
“The conversion of the heart is expressed in sorrow for sin and in the desire to change one’s life. It is accompanied by hope in God’s mercy and trust in the help of His grace.” (CCC 1431)
LIFE APPLICATION QUESTIONS
True Interior Life:
What masks or appearances do you tend to maintain in your faith life or family?
Facing the Tombs:
Is there an area of your heart where you’ve been avoiding Jesus’ healing light?
Prophetic Courage at Home:
How can you live your faith more authentically and visibly within your household today?
FAMILY LIVE IT
Make some time today to gather together and, going around, speak a word of encouragement affirming how each person has shown real faith through honesty or courage.
Then pray over each person by name:
that Jesus Christ, the Resurrection and the Life, would flood every hidden or hurting place in their hearts with His healing light, bringing resurrection where there has been silence, sin, or spiritual death.
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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