The Meditations now published under the title of Daily Bread, consist of a few discourses, in part delivered at the weekly Morning Service of the Mass, in Saint Barnabas Cathedral, Nottingham. They were necessarily short, not to interfere with the worldly callings of those who attended. It was desired that these might take away something to keep in mind, in their various occupations, with their families, and throughout the day: something to aid them, by the Divine Blessing, to fulfil the Apostles' exhortation: Building yourselves upon your most holy faith, praying in the Holy Ghost; keep yourselves in the love of God, waiting for the mercy of our Lord Jesus Christ unto life everlasting.
They are published, confessedly also, with a hope that some who read them may prayerfully remember, when it shall please God to close his earthly pilgrimage, him who in the few last years of a protracted life, helped others to minister to them the Word of God, and the Sacraments of the Church.
Their friend and servant,
Father Richard Waldo Sibthorp
East Circus Street, Nottingham,
January, 1876.
N.B. - The quotations from Holy Scripture are, with scarcely an exception, from the authorized Douay version of the Bible.