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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Saturday of the First Week of Lent | February 28, 2026

Name them. The people who have hurt you. The ones who betrayed your trust, stabbed you in the back, made your life miserable. The person whose name still makes your stomach clench.

Got them? Good. Now pray for them.

Not against them. For them. Ask God to bless them, prosper them, bring them to repentance and salvation.

This is what Jesus demands. Love your enemies. Pray for those who persecute you. Why? So that you may be children of your Father in heaven. God makes his sun rise on the evil and the good. He sends rain on the just and unjust. If you want to be God's child, you have to act like your Father.

Then comes the terrifying standard: Be perfect, as your heavenly Father is perfect.

You cannot do it. That is the point.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Deuteronomy 26:16-19

Responsorial: Psalm 119:1-2, 4-5, 7-8

Gospel: Matthew 5: 43-48

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Deuteronomy 26:16-19

01:03 Psalm Response - Psalm 119

04:54 Gospel - Matthew 5: 43-48

05:41 Reflection - Love Your Enemies

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Friday of the First Week of Lent | February 27, 2026

You have never murdered anyone. Congratulations. Neither have the Pharisees. The bar for "not a murderer" is spectacularly low. Most people clear it without trying.

Jesus is not impressed.

Whoever is angry with his brother is liable to judgment. Whoever calls someone worthless is liable to the council. Whoever says "You fool" is liable to the fire of Gehenna. Murder is just anger that found a weapon. The contempt is the same.

Then Jesus gets really uncomfortable. If you bring your gift to the altar and remember that your brother has something against you, leave your gift there. Go first and be reconciled. Then come and offer your gift.

Your worship can wait. God will not accept it until you make things right.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Ezekiel 18:21-28

Responsorial: Psalm 130:1-2, 3-4, 5-7a, 7bc-8

Gospel: Matthew 5: 20-26

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Ezekiel 18:21-28

01:49 Psalm Response - Psalm 130

06:10 Gospel - Matthew 5: 20-26

07:26 Reflection - Leave Your Gift at the Altar

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Thursday of the First Week of Lent | February 26, 2026

She was going to die. Queen Esther knew the law. Anyone who approached the king without being summoned would be executed. But her people were going to be slaughtered, and she was the only one who could do anything about it.

So she fasted three days. She lay prostrate on the ground from morning until evening. And she prayed: Help me, who am alone and have no help but you, for I am taking my life in my hand.

This is what real prayer looks like. Not polite requests when things are fine. Desperate prayer when there is no backup plan.

Jesus says: Ask and it will be given to you. Seek and you will find. Knock and the door will be opened. Esther did all three. And the lion extended his scepter.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Esther C:12, 14-16, 23-25

Responsorial: Psalm 138:1-2ab, 2cde-3, 7c-8

Gospel: Matthew 7:7-12

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Esther C:12,14-16,23-25

01:06 Psalm Response - Psalm 138

05:27 Gospel - Matthew 7:7-12

06:14 Reflection - Ask and It Will Be Given to You

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Wednesday of the First Week of Lent | February 25, 2026

Nineveh was the enemy. The Assyrian capital, famous for brutality, for impaling captives and skinning prisoners alive. And God told Jonah to go preach to them. Jonah walked into that massive city and preached eight words: Forty days more and Nineveh shall be overthrown. No explanation. No call to repentance. No offer of mercy.

And Nineveh believed. From the greatest to the least, they put on sackcloth. The king rose from his throne, stripped off his robes, and sat in ashes. The most wicked city on earth repented at eight words from a reluctant prophet.

Jesus points to this story and says: The men of Nineveh will rise up at the judgment with this generation and condemn it. Because they repented at the preaching of Jonah. And something greater than Jonah is here.

What more evidence are you waiting for?

📖 Readings

First Reading: Jonah 3:1-10

Responsorial: Psalm 51:3-4, 12-13, 18-19

Gospel: Luke 11: 29-32

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Jonah 3:1-10

01:45 Psalm Response - Psalm 51

08:36 Gospel - Luke 11: 29-32

09:25 Reflection - The City That Repented

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Tuesday of the First Week of Lent | February 24, 2026

You have been praying the Our Father your whole life. Maybe you learned it at your mother's knee, the words coming before you understood them. Maybe you have said it ten thousand times without once considering what you were actually asking for. Jesus gave us this prayer because the disciples asked him to teach them how to pray. And the first thing he told them was what not to do. Do not babble like the pagans. Your Father knows what you need before you ask him.

If God already knows what we need, why pray at all? Because prayer is not about informing God. Prayer is about transforming us. The Our Father is not a list of requests. It is a reordering of our desires. And that middle petition is the trap. Forgive us as we forgive. Every time you pray it, you are asking God to treat you the way you treat the people who have wronged you.

Isaiah provides the foundation. God's word goes out like rain from heaven. It does not return empty. It accomplishes what God purposes. The Our Father is not just words we say. It is God's word shaping us.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Isaiah 55:10-11

Responsorial: Psalm 34:4-5, 6-7, 16-17, 18-19

Gospel: Matthew 6:7-15

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Isaiah 55:10-11

00:42 Psalm Response - Psalm 34

05:26 Gospel - Matthew 6:7-15

06:22 Reflection - Our Father Who Art in Heaven

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Monday of the First Week of Lent | February 23, 2026

You will stand before the throne. The King will separate sheep from goats. And both groups will be surprised.

The goats had no idea they were failing the test. They walked past Jesus a thousand times disguised as the hungry, the stranger, the prisoner, and they never recognized him. But here is what should stop you cold: the sheep were equally surprised. They did not know they were serving Christ. They were not keeping score. They just saw need and responded.

Leviticus puts flesh on these bones: be holy, for I am holy. And what does holiness look like? Do not steal. Do not lie. Do not defraud. Do not hold back wages. Do not slander. Do not hate. Love your neighbor as yourself.

Every interaction with another human being is an interaction with God's image. Every act of cruelty is a desecration. Every act of mercy is worship.

Who is the least in your life? The coworker everyone ignores. The family member who exhausts you. The stranger whose needs inconvenience you. That is where Christ is hiding. That is the test you do not know you are taking.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Leviticus 19:1-2, 11-18

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 19:8, 9, 10, 15

Gospel: Matthew 25:31-46

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Leviticus 19:1-2,11-18

01:33 Psalm Response - Psalm 19

05:05 Gospel - Matthew 25:31-46

07:04 Reflection - The Least of These

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | First Sunday of Lent | February 22, 2026

Two men. Two tests. Everything hangs on what they do next.

The first man stands in paradise. Every tree is beautiful. He walks with God. There is only one boundary in the entire world: do not eat from that tree. A serpent reframes God's generosity as restriction. He reaches for the fruit. Death crashes into a world that had never known it.

The second man stands in wilderness. Forty days without food. Satan offers bread, spectacle, kingdoms. He refuses everything. And angels come to minister to the One who would not break.

Paul puts it starkly: through one man sin entered, through sin death. But the free gift is not like the trespass. Grace does not simply reverse the damage. It overwhelms it. Where sin increased, grace abounded all the more.

This Lent, we enter our own wilderness. Not to punish ourselves but to discover what Jesus proved: the Father is enough.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Genesis 2:7-9; 3:1-7

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6, 12-13, 17

Second Reading: Romans 5: 12-19

Gospel: Matthew 4:1-11

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Genesis 2:7-9;3:1-7

01:47 Psalm Response - Psalm 51

06:23 Reading II - Romans 5: 12-19

07:54 Gospel - Matthew 4:1-11

09:16 Reflection - The Two Adams

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Saturday after Ash Wednesday | February 21, 2026

There is a name waiting for you. Not the name your parents gave you, not the names the world has called you. This is the name God wants to speak over your life: Repairer of the Breach. Restorer of Streets to Dwell In.

A breach is a gap in a wall, a break in a relationship, a rupture in what was meant to be whole. Breaches are everywhere once you start looking. The estranged family member. The shattered friendship. The community torn apart by blame. God looks at all this brokenness and does not send demolition crews. He sends repairers.

Isaiah reveals what happens when we get fasting right: Your ancient ruins shall be rebuilt. You shall raise up the foundations of many generations. Inner transformation leads to outer rebuilding. Repaired relationships create repaired communities.

Then comes Levi. A tax collector, a traitor to his own people, excommunicated and despised. Jesus looks at him and says two words: Follow me. No lecture, no waiting period, no conditions. And Levi throws a banquet with all his sinner friends, scandalizing the religious establishment.

Jesus is the true Repairer of the Breach. He walks into the wreckage. He eats with the people everyone else has written off. He calls traitors to become apostles.

And now he calls you to do the same.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Isaiah 58:9b-14

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 86:1-2, 3-4, 5-6

Gospel: Luke 5: 27-32

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Isaiah 58:9b-14

01:30 Psalm Response - Psalm 86

05:22 Gospel - Luke 5: 27-32

06:08 Reflection - Repairer of the Breach

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Friday after Ash Wednesday | February 20, 2026

You have been fasting for two days now. You are doing the thing. You are showing up for Lent. And here comes Isaiah to ruin everything.

The people in his day fasted too. They bowed their heads like a reed. They spread out sackcloth and ashes. And they were furious that God did not seem to notice. God's response is devastating. He does not answer their complaint. He exposes their hearts. On the very day you fast, you pursue your own interests. On the very day you humble yourself, you oppress your workers. Your fasting is a performance that changes nothing about how you actually live.

Isaiah redefines fasting. The fast God chooses is not primarily about what you put in your mouth. It is about what comes out of your life. Loose the bonds of injustice. Share your bread with the hungry. Do not hide from your own flesh and blood.

Then Jesus calls himself the bridegroom. Throughout the Old Testament, God was the faithful husband and Israel the unfaithful wife. Jesus is claiming to be the divine husband. The wedding has arrived. But the bridegroom will be taken away, and then we will fast. Christian fasting is homesickness for heaven. It is a bride longing for her groom. And that longing changes how we treat everyone around us.

📖 Readings

First Reading: Isaiah 58:1-9a

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 51:3-4, 5-6ab, 18-19

Gospel: Matthew 9: 14-15

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Isaiah 58:1-9a

02:01 Psalm Response - Psalm 51

06:12 Gospel - Matthew 9: 14-15

06:37 Reflection - The Fast God Wants

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Catholic Daily Readings and Reflection | Thursday after Ash Wednesday | February 19, 2026

Every morning you wake up and make the same choice again. You probably do not notice it, but underneath all the automation of your routine, a direction is being set and a path is being walked.

Moses strips away all the complexity: I have set before you life and death, blessing and curse. Therefore choose life. Two options. Two outcomes. And then this stunning phrase: For he is your life. God is not a means to an end. God himself is the destination, the prize, the point.

The psalm gives us the image: a tree planted by streams of water versus chaff that the wind drives away. Rooted and fruitful, or weightless and blown in whatever direction the wind moves.

Jesus sharpens it further: If anyone wishes to come after me, he must deny himself and take up his cross DAILY. Not once at a retreat. Daily. And whoever tries to save their life will lose it, but whoever loses their life for his sake will save it.

What profit is there to gain the whole world yet lose yourself?

📖 Readings

First Reading: Deuteronomy 30:15-20

Responsorial Psalm: Psalm 1:1-2, 3, 4 and 6

Gospel: Luke 9: 22-25

⏱️ Timeline

00:00 Introduction

00:15 Reading I - Deuteronomy 30:15-20

01:27 Psalm Response - Psalm 1

05:51 Gospel - Luke 9: 22-25

06:32 Reflection - Choose Life

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