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Daily Bread | Friday, April 10, 2026

Good Friday morning. The world kept moving overnight. Here's what happened, and what your faith has to say about it.

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From the Holy Father

Pope Leo XIV

Pope welcomes Middle East ceasefire, invites faithful to join prayer vigil for peace

Pope Leo XIV welcomed news of a ceasefire in the Middle East and called on all parties to pursue prolonged dialogue toward lasting peace. He invited Catholics worldwide to join a prayer vigil for peace in response to the conflict.

Response to World Events

Today's Gospel

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John 21:1-14

"Jesus showed himself again to the disciples. It was by the Sea of Tiberias, and it happened like this: Simon Peter, Thomas called the Twin, Nathanael from Cana in Galilee, the sons of Zebedee and two more of his disciples were together. Simon Peter said, ‘I’m going fishing."

Rosary Mystery of the Day

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Today's Mysteries

Friday: Sorrowful Mysteries

Sorrowful Mysteries

1. The Agony in the Garden
2. The Scourging at the Pillar
3. The Crowning with Thorns
4. The Carrying of the Cross
5. The Crucifixion and Death of Our Lord

Defend the Faith

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Apologetics

Scripture & Tradition

The Objection

"The Bible is the only authority Christians need. Catholics added Tradition to corrupt the simple message of Scripture."

The Catholic Response

Scripture itself tells us to hold fast to traditions handed on by word of mouth, not only by letter. Paul writes in 2 Thessalonians 2:15, "Stand firm and hold fast to the traditions that you were taught, either by an oral statement or by a letter of ours." The early Church existed for decades before a single Gospel was written, and it was three centuries before the canon of Scripture was formally settled, at councils guided by the very Tradition skeptics want to discard. The Catechism explains that Sacred Scripture and Sacred Tradition "are bound closely together and communicate one with the other" as a single deposit of faith (CCC 80).

2 Thessalonians 2:15 | CCC 80-82 | CCC 97 | Dei Verbum 9

Daily Trivia

Test Your Faith IQ

Scripture

In today's Gospel, Jesus appears at the Sea of Tiberias and tells the disciples to cast their net to the right side. How many fish did they catch?

A) 144
B) 153
C) 70
D) 12

Answer at the bottom of this newsletter.

Faith & The World

VP Vance to lead U.S. team in Iran peace talks. And, Artemis

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NPR

VP Vance to lead U.S. team in Iran peace talks. And, Artemis II to return to Earth

Vice President Vance is heading to Pakistan to lead U.S. negotiations aimed at ending the war in Iran, while Artemis II astronauts prepare to return to Earth.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

Matthew 5:9

"Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called children of God."

CCC 2304, Peace as the work of justice

The Catechism insists that peace is not merely the absence of war but "the work of justice and the effect of charity" (CCC 2304). Real negotiations require more than strategy; they require the moral courage to see the enemy as a person made in God's image, which is exactly the leap that makes peace possible and so terrifyingly rare.

Reflect → Where in your own life are you settling for a ceasefire when God is asking you to actually make peace?

Stephen Colbert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are OUT. Who is I

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NPR

Stephen Colbert and Marjorie Taylor Greene are OUT. Who is IN? The quiz knows

NPR's weekly news quiz plays on who's trending up and who's fading from the public spotlight.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

1 Samuel 16:7

"God does not see as a mortal, who sees the appearance. The LORD looks into the heart."

CCC 1700, The dignity of the human person

Our culture runs on relevance: who's in, who's out, who matters this week. But the Catholic vision of human dignity (CCC 1700) says your worth was fixed at creation and confirmed at baptism, not calculated by an algorithm or a trending list.

Reflect → Do you measure your own worth by how seen you are, or by who sees you?

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

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TechCrunch

Every fusion startup that has raised over $100M

Fusion energy startups have collectively raised $7.1 billion as investors bet big on harnessing the power of the sun.

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FAITH & THE WORLD

Genesis 1:28

"God blessed them and God said to them: Be fertile and multiply; fill the earth and subdue it."

Laudato Si' 131, Technology at the service of the common good

Pope Francis warns in Laudato Si' that "technology severed from ethics will not easily be able to limit its own power" (LS 136). Harnessing the power of stars is a breathtaking exercise of the dominion God gave us in Genesis, but dominion without stewardship is just domination wearing a lab coat.

Reflect → When you imagine the future, do you picture human flourishing or just human ingenuity?

Good In The World

[GOOD NEWS] Artifacts from 2,000-yo Shipwreck at Bottom of S

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Good News Network

[GOOD NEWS] Artifacts from 2,000-yo Shipwreck at Bottom of Swiss Lake Include Roman Chariot Pieces (LOOK)

A 2,000-year-old Roman shipwreck discovered in a Swiss lake has yielded exquisitely preserved chariot parts, pottery, and weapons from the time of Christ.

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FAITH & GOOD NEWS

Psalm 77:12

"I will remember the deeds of the LORD; yes, I will remember your wonders of old."

CCC 299, Creation bears the mark of its Maker

A ship that sank when Jesus walked the earth now surfaces holding evidence of the Roman world the Apostles navigated. God preserves things in hidden places until the right moment, whether pottery at the bottom of a lake or grace at the bottom of a broken heart.

Reflect → What has God been preserving in your life that you haven't discovered yet?

[GOOD NEWS] Formerly Incarcerated Mentors Are Changing Lives

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Reasons to be Cheerful

[GOOD NEWS] Formerly Incarcerated Mentors Are Changing Lives in California

After 28 years in prison, Allen Burnett and others like him are mentoring at-risk youth in California, turning their suffering into a lifeline for the next generation.

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FAITH & GOOD NEWS

2 Corinthians 1:4

"Who encourages us in our every affliction, so that we may be able to encourage those who are in any affliction with the encouragement with which we ourselves are encouraged by God."

CCC 1468, Reconciliation restores the sinner to communion

The Church teaches that reconciliation "restores the sinner to the communion of saints" and makes their wound a source of healing for others (CCC 1468). Allen Burnett standing at the ocean after 28 years, then turning around to walk back toward the broken, is what redemption looks like with skin on.

Reflect → What pain in your past is God asking you to stop hiding and start offering?

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Saint of the Day

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Saint of the Day

April 10

St. Fulbert of Chartres

Fulbert was a poor student who got a scholarship to study under Gerbert of Aurillac, the man who would become Pope Sylvester II and who was rumored across medieval Europe to have built a talking bronze head powered by the devil. Fulbert ignored the gossip, learned everything Gerbert knew about mathematics and astronomy, then channeled it all into rebuilding the Chartres Cathedral after it burned down in 1020. He personally designed much of what tourists still photograph today.

His feast is April 10, and his story of rebuilding from ruins echoes today's Gospel theme of the Risen Christ restoring what seemed lost.

Trivia Answer

B . John 21:11 records exactly 153 large fish. St. Jerome claimed that ancient zoologists counted 153 species of fish, so the catch symbolized the universal mission of the Church to gather all peoples. Whether or not Jerome's zoology holds up, the number has fascinated theologians for two millennia.

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