Daily Reflections with Prayer and Action Prompts

Living God’s Word 2025

Living God’s Word is an inexpensive and deeply engaging tool for daily spiritual growth that is easy to access and distribute.

Designed especially for Sunday bulletins as a double-sided insert, Living God’s Word is an easy way to share down-to-earth spiritual insights with families, small groups, or an entire parish. This resource costs $52 for all 52 weeks of the liturgical year and will be updated annually.  See product license below for details.

This 1-page (front/back) handout supplies an in-depth reflection on the Sunday Gospel, short insights on the daily Gospels, and engaging prompts for living out the week. For each weekday, Father Knight has chosen one line from the day’s Gospel and offered one question to stimulate reflection. To help us integrate the Gospel into our daily lives, he provides five suggested responses we can make to the Sunday Gospel each week in a section called “Living This Week’s Gospel.” He bases suggestions on five words that summarize our identity as Christians: Christian, Disciple, Prophet, Priest, and King. Finally, he adds a prayer, asking for the grace to live by the values proposed in the Sunday reflection.

Product License: This reproducible eResource is sold with a lifetime license for use within a parish, school, or diocesan office. You are permitted to make unlimited copies for use within your own community. You may also email these to members of your team or participants in your program. If you serve more than one parish or school, each should purchase its own license. You may post this eResource to social media sites or websites in a serialized manner, but you may not post the full resource in its entirety at once. Please contact us if you have any questions. Thank you for cooperating with our honor system regarding our product licenses.

Published by the Pastoral Center.

For Small Group Study/Discussion

Reaching Jesus : Five Steps to the Fullness of Life

Available in English and Spanish paperbacks and EPUBS

If you are looking for a plan, for a path blazed by saints and followed by Christians for centuries—sometimes without clearly recognizing the steps they were taking—you will find it in Reaching Jesus: Five Steps to the Fullness of Life.

The book identifies five stages of the journey by five objectives to aim at and then translates the steps into five choices. Everything is clear, concrete, and surprisingly easy—to begin with. The book will show you how to put the mysteries and promises of your Baptism into practice so that God can transform your life in ways that are far beyond your wildest expectations.

“…absolutely superb… a first-rate, down-to-earth, practical guide to real-life spirituality for any Christian believer.”

— Archbishop Pilarczyk of Cincinnati

“To write the words ‘Jesus is acting with me, in me, and through me’ presupposes a profound, vital, authentic, coherent experience. This experience is what Father David Knight, during the 60 years of his priestly ministry, tried to share with the thousands of people he met in his life, and is now passing on to readers through this book.

— Bishop Alvaro Cardenal Ramazzini of Huehuetenango

Nuts & Bolts of Daily Spirituality: Practical Steps to Grow Closer to God

Available in English and Spanish paperbacks and EPUBS

Direct and refreshingly simple, this book might have you wondering if it is really this easy to grow into the fullness of life that is the perfection of love. Father Knight assures us that it is. This is the perfect book for those looking to grow their faith-life, one step at a time.

As the title suggests, Nuts and Bolts of Daily Spirituality is a short presentation of the bare essentials for living out the promises of our Baptism as progressive steps to spiritual growth. It begins with an enlightening explanation of types and levels of prayer that match the steps and boils down practical responses to easy and simple concrete decisions.

For Sacramental Preparation

The Five Promises of Baptism

Available in English and Spanish paperbacks and EPUBS

The Five Promises of Baptism is an excellent choice for O.C.I.A. candidates and for parents of the newly baptized, or as a follow-up to Reaching Jesus: Five Steps to the Fullness of Life.

This short book is an encouraging presentation that reveals five mysteries and commitments of Baptism as five promises God makes to us when we are baptized. It also teaches us to recognize and claim these promises as five “ordinary mystical experiences” inherent in every authentic Christian life. Father Knight shows you a simple — but meaningful — way to make your spirituality your way of life by making it your conscious focus to live out your Baptism. This is a book about promises made to you by God and promises made to God by you. This is the foundation and the goal of everyone who strives to live a “life of grace.”

A Fresh Look at Confession: Why It Really Is Good for the Soul

Priests don’t hear sins in Confession. In Confession, what you are really revealing is your ideals. The “real you” has a different set of ideals, reflecting your heart instead of your lapses.

A Fresh Look at Confession is unlike anything you may have read about the sacrament. Here, you will learn about the heart of Confession, its meaning and mystery, and why it is so necessary for authentic followers of Christ. This is deep theology, explained in clear language.

This powerful and needed book explores confession as a sacrament of self-identity, community, and as an encounter with God. Along the way, you learn about concepts and doctrines such as mortal sin, absolution, purgatory, and the need to confess sins to a priest. This is powerful reading for anyone who struggles with confession, and for all who wish to explore this mystical, healing, and life giving sacrament.

A Fresh Look at the Mass: A Helpful Guide to Better Understand and Celebrate the Mystery

Enter into God’s awesome mystery by gaining a deeper and more personal understanding of the prayers, gestures, symbols, mysteries, and realities of the Mass. From the Opening Rites, through the Liturgy of the Word and the Eucharist, right down to “the Mass is ended,” you’ll discover how the Mass brings you to an encounter with Jesus that is unmatched by any other experience.

This thorough, engaging, and inspirational work is perfect for group or individual study, and for anyone who wishes to be lifted up to a new world — “the world of conscious relationship with God.”

The Way of the Spirit: Using the Gifts, Showing the Fruits

Wisdom, understanding, knowledge… As Christians, we might know the Gifts of the Holy Spirit, but if we’re really honest, we don’t always understand what they mean and what they do for us. Here, Fr. David Knight shows how these gifts empower us to live the divine life right here, right now.

Using clear, straightforward language, he explains Scripture and Church teaching: Wisdom the gift of seeing everything we do in the light of all we are and are called to be… Knowledge is practical know-how in the spiritual life… Here too are suggestions for using these gifts and how to know if we are using them well. (Hint: we’ll see the Fruits of the Spirit alive in our lives, and Fr. Knight offers perspectives on these, too.) Each section of this powerful book can help us grow in understanding these gifts so that we might be guided by the Holy Spirit toward living fully the Life that is already ours.