Typing this from a hard copy since I could not find it on the web.
Day One
Opening Prayer:
Come Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of your faithful and enkindle in us the fire of your love.
Today's Reflection:
From well before Cardinal Gibbons [in the late 1800s], Catholics in America have been advocates for religious liberty, and the landmark teaching of the Second Vatican Council on religious liberty was influentced by the American experience... We have been staunch defenders of religious liberty in the past. We have a solem duty to discharge that duty today... [We] address an urgent summons to our fellow Catholics and fellow Americans to be on guard, for religious liberty is under attack both at home and aborad.
--From Our First, Most Cherished Liberty. U. S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, 2012