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Because William Barclay was a Protestant theologian, we cannot recommend his works, whatever merits they may have. One problem Barclay has, as Dr. Mary Healy noted on Catholic Answers Live, is his rationalism in assessing the accounts of miracles in the gospels, whereby, e.g., he argued that Jesus didn’t multiply the loaves and fish but just got the Jewish people to share. To be clear, many other Protestant theologians would affirm the historicity of Jesus’ miracles in the gospels, and yet would join Barclay in opposing distinctively Catholic doctrines, e.g., the Eucharist.
As an alternative, we recommend The Ignatius Catholic Study Bible New Testament, as well as Bible studies on individual books of the Old Testament by Ignatius Press, and also Bible studies on various biblical books and other biblical topics by our friends at Emmaus Road Publishing.
We don’t have a daily Bible study per se, but we heartily recommend Jimmy Akins’ A Daily Defense, which is a very effective Catholic apologetics alternative.