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A Night Prayer
Jesus Christ, my God, I adore You and thank You for all the graces You have given me this day. I offer You my sleep and all the moments of this night. I place myself and all my loved ones, wherever they may be, in Your sacred side and under the mantle of Our Blessed Mother. Let Your holy angels stand watch and keep us in peace. Amen.
Quote of the Day
“Rejoice always, pray constantly, give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you.” -1 Thessalonians 5:16-18
Today’s Meditation
“In the mystery of the Annunciation, Jesus, the eternal Word of the Father, the second Person of the Most Holy Trinity, is made flesh in the womb of the Virgin May. Jesus comes to live in Mary – Body, Blood, Soul, and Divinity – because her soul is perfectly receptive to the workings and will of God.” —Manual for Eucharistic Adoration
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The daily examination of conscience is an ancient Catholic practice. It’s very simple, and it’s designed to help us identify our sins and weaknesses so that we can improve and grow stronger in the spiritual life, while providing an excellent ongoing preparation for regular Confession. It consists of taking a few minutes at the end of the day to prayerfully review our actions in the light of God’s commandments, followed by the Act of Contrition.
Reflect on the victories and losses
Actively reflecting on the high and low points of the day can help you live more intentionally and bring a renewed sense of resolve into the following day.
Review your actions, words, and thoughts today. Did you actively guard yourself against temptation? Where did sin creep in?
In what moments did you practice virtue and moral courage?
Were you attuned to the Holy Spirit’s promptings today? Where did you feel His inspiration?
Ask Him for the graces necessary to follow His Will more purposefully tomorrow.
Act of Contrition
O my God, I am heartily sorry for having offended Thee, and I detest all my sins because of Thy just punishments, but most of all because they offend Thee, my God, Who art all good and deserving of all my love. I firmly resolve with the help of Thy grace to sin no more and to avoid the near occasions of sin. Amen.
Practice gratitude
It is God’s love that has brought you into existence and to this exact moment. Practice looking for His hand in your day.
Where did you feel His loving gaze upon you today?
What people or moments helped you see God in your life?
Thank God for all these moments!
Ask Him to help you recognize His blessings and providence tomorrow.
Renew your commitment to Christ
Remember: our Faith is founded upon a Person—Christ! Renew your personal love and devotion to Him.
Thank God for the gift of His Son Jesus and our call to be His disciples.
Tell the Lord of your desire to know Christ more personally.
If possible, set an intention for your day tomorrow. Ask Our Lord to guide you in this act.
Pray a Hail Mary, Our Father, or another beloved prayer.
Rest with God
[He] made the Bear and Orion, the Plei′ades and the chambers of the south; Who does great things beyond understanding, and marvelous things without number. — Job 9:9-10
(14) Seek good, and not evil, that ye may live: and so the LORD, the God of hosts, shall be with you, as ye have spoken. (15) Hate the evil, and love the good, and establish judgment in the gate: it may be that the LORD God of hosts will be gracious unto the remnant of Joseph. King James VersionChange email Bible version
How can this calamity be averted? The solution is so simple and obvious that God seems to spend very little time on it within the book of Amos. In reality, every word of the book screams what Israel needed to do then—and needs to do today.
“Seek good and not evil, that you may live; so the LORDGod of hosts will be with you, as you have spoken. Hate evil, love good; establish justice in the gate” (Amos 5:14-15). A person does not need to seek God if He has already revealed Himself to him. Thus, seek means “to turn” to Him in repentance, not necessarily “to look for.” It is a way of saying, “Set aside your time and life for God.”
Seek in the Hebrew is imperative; it is a command. Seeking good, or seeking God (verse 4), is an act that we must set ourselves to do, as it is not a natural inclination (Romans 8:7). But it is worth the effort, for its product is life—not just physical existence, but life as God lives it (John 17:3). If we resolve to seek good and continue in it, the result—truly living!—will follow. Seeking the Lord produces godly life.
In living by every Word of God, we should notice the order in which He lists these commands: “Seek good and not evil. . . . Hate evil, love good” (Amos 5:14-15). The action of turning to good precedes the emotions of hating evil and loving good. Holiness involves action and emotion: seeking and shunning, loving good and hating evil. He wants us to turn to the good and make it a target in our daily lives. If we wait for God to infuse us with the right kind of feeling before we try to do good, then we will wait a long time because it will never come. We must take action first by faith, and the corresponding right feeling will follow.
If holiness does not involve both action and emotion, it becomes something that we can put on and take off. We could hypocritically live one kind of life during the week, and on the Sabbath put on our holy look and go to services. Action and emotion combine to make a whole way of life.
Holiness is not just a way of life or a rule to live by. It also produces the very best quality of life—the way God lives eternally. God’s people must constantly think about holiness, appreciating that He has chosen us out of this world and given us grace to be holy.
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Let’s throw it back to the 1933 All-Star Game, the very first one ever. What a lineup the American League had in that one. The middle of the order was four legendary Hall of Fame hitters: Charlie Gehringer, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, Al Simmons.
But we want to draw your attention to the guy who was batting sixth, right behind Simmons: White Sox third baseman Jimmy Dykes.
Dykes was a pretty good player in his day. He made the first two All-Star Games in ’33 and ’34, and he got some MVP votes a handful of times in his 22-year career. But that’s not why we’re talking about him right now.
We’re talking about him because, 93 years later, he is still the one and only White Sox third baseman to start an All-Star Game.
With Phase 1 of All-Star voting underway — fill out your ballot here — Miguel Vargas has a strong case to be the AL’s starting third baseman for the 2026 Midsummer Classic.
The 26-year-old is having a breakout year for the White Sox. Among primary third basemen this season, Vargas leads outright in home runs (15), RBIs (41), runs scored (47) and walks (43), and he sits near the top of the leaderboard in OPS (.859) and Wins Above Replacement according to both Baseball Reference (2.4 WAR) and FanGraphs (2.3 WAR).
Vargas is one of the biggest reasons for Chicago’s surprising turnaround. Entering tomorrow’s series opener against the MLB-best Braves at Rate Field (7:40 p.m. ET, MLB.TV), the White Sox are 34-31 this season and hold the second American League Wild Card spot.
This is a team that lost over 100 games each of the last three years. If not for Vargas’ big breakout, they very well might not be in postseason contention in 2026.
Emerson Hancock takes the mound for the Mariners today (6:35 p.m. ET, MLB.TV) in the middle of a breakout season.
He’s cut his ERA by two full runs from where it was sitting the last couple of seasons. From 2024-25, Hancock’s ERA was 4.84. This season, it’s 2.80.
There are a few things Hancock is doing differently to drive that improvement, but the big obvious one is that he’s throwing a lot more sidearm than he used to.
Over the last three seasons, Hancock has lowered his arm angle from 27 degrees (2024) to 18 degrees (2025) to 12 degrees (2026). (The closer to zero degrees you get, the more sidearm you are.)
By now, Hancock has one of the most sidearm arm slots of any Major League starting pitcher. The only one with a lower arm slot is Chris Sale.
Starters with the most sidearm arm angles in 2026
Chris Sale: 10 degrees
Emerson Hancock: 12 degrees
Nick Lodolo: 15 degrees
Luis Castillo: 17 degrees
Spencer Arrighetti: 19 degrees
And wouldn’t you know it — Sale is the exact pitcher who inspired Hancock to make his change. Yes, even though Hancock is a righty and Sale is a lefty.
The idea came from watching Sale dominate the Mariners on Sept. 5 of last season. Hancock, who at the time had been moved to the bullpen for Seattle’s playoff push, decided he wanted to try to mimic Sale’s iconic sidewinding delivery.
Hancock asked Woodworth what he thought. Woodworth — who was actually college teammates with Sale at Florida Gulf Coast University — told his pitcher it’d be a great experiment … for the offseason.
Did Hancock follow that plan? Nope! He used his new Sale-inspired delivery in his next outing for the Mariners two days later.
The change has stuck, and it’s worked wonders for Hancock this season. The actual pitching motions look a little different, but there’s no denying Sale and Hancock’s parallel arm angles.
“It wasn’t anything that we said, ‘Hey, this isn’t working. You need to drop down,'” Woodworth said. “He just started evolving into who he naturally is and found his natural slot.”
Hancock isn’t the first pitcher to emulate Sale’s sidearm style. The Mets’ Sean Manaea did the same thing in 2024 and was awesome down the stretch and into the postseason.
Pitching can be a copycat world, and it’s always cool when something like this works out.
THE PITCH THAT UNLOCKED AN AL CENTRAL ACE
Gavin Williams just beat the Yankees. Can he do it for a second straight start?
The Guardians ace is on the mound for tonight’s series opener in Cleveland (6:40 p.m. ET, FS1 / MLB.TV). It’s the second meeting of the two AL powerhouses in less than a week.
Williams won his start at Yankee Stadium last Wednesday to move to 9-3 with a 3.20 ERA and an American League-leading 94 strikeouts. He’s been on a heck of a run for the Guardians ever since the 2025 All-Star break, with a 2.72 ERA that’s fifth best among qualified starters over that time.
One pitch more than any other has unlocked Williams’ ace potential: His sinker. Even more specifically, his backdoor sinker. That’s the pitch to watch against the Bronx Bombers. Jared Greenspan breaks it down here.
See, Williams loves to throw his sinker — a new pitch that he added in 2025 — to the outside part of the plate against right-handed hitters. He starts it off the plate away, and it runs back over the edge of the strike zone.
That’s the opposite from how a lot of pitchers use their sinkers these days. They tend to throw them hard inside, to jam the hitter.
And the reason Williams uses his sinker that way is pretty interesting. He needed a fastball to attack righties away, but it can’t be a four-seamer, because he gets so amped up when he pitches that he yanks his four-seamer out of the strike zone, and hitters don’t chase it.
So, enter the sinker, which, no matter how excited Williams gets, still finds its way back over the plate thanks to its natural movement.
“I get a little bit too juiced up, so my miss is way worse with the four-seam on the outer half,” Williams told MLB.com. “I’m able to run [the sinker] back — where with the four-seam, I just pull it. It’s an auto take every time.”
Here’s the news and notes from around the Majors this weekend.
• After a couple more big games against his old team in the Freeway Series, Shohei Ohtani now leads the National League in OPS (.939). He also leads the National League in ERA (0.74), out of all the pitchers who’ve thrown at least 50 innings. Pretty good.
• Just a month after surgery, Tarik Skubal made his first rehab start at High-A West Michigan. And the back-to-back Cy Young winner looked as dominant as ever, throwing five scoreless innings with six strikeouts and touching 99 mph on his fastball. Skubal could be back in the Tigers rotation as soon as this weekend for a key AL Central series against the Guardians.
• Cam Schlittler got back on track with a 5 2/3-inning, one-run start against the rival Red Sox in yesterday’s series finale at Yankee Stadium. He continues to lead the American League with a 1.87 ERA. And according to the Elias Sports Bureau, Schlittler’s 2.38 career ERA is the third lowest by any Major League pitcher through their first 28 starts since 1913, trailing only Paul Skenes (2.14) and José Fernandez (2.19).
• Jacob Misiorowski set yet another velocity record by topping out at 103.7 mph in his start against the Rockies on Saturday. That’s the fastest pitch thrown by any MLB starter in the pitch tracking era, which goes back to 2008. Coors Field was no match for Misiorowski, who now has a 1.50 ERA and a Major League-leading 116 strikeouts this season.
• Roki Sasaki finally looks like the pitcher the Dodgers were hoping for. He turned in his finest outing as a Major Leaguer on Friday, throwing seven shutout innings with 10 strikeouts against the Angels. Roki’s fastball was humming, topping out at a career-high 100.6 mph, and his new, harder splitter racked up six K’s.
During Sunday’s Tigers game, the Detroit broadcast showed a young fan named Cece wearing homemade goggles (made of plastic cups attached to a pair of empty lenses) with “McGonigoggles” written on a piece of paper across the frame.
Mere moments after the broadcast cut back to game action, McGonigle crushed his fourth home run of the season. That prompted the broadcast crew to proclaim: “The McGonigoggles are working today!”
And things only got better from there. McGonigle sent Cece and the Tigers faithful home happy with a walk-off single in the bottom of the ninth to lift Detroit to victory over the Mariners.
The McGonigoggles even got a shoutout from McGonigle himself in his postgame interview.
“Shoutout, Cece,” McGonigle said. “Thank you so much. Keep wearing those goggles.”
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