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JULY 15 – SAINT BONAVENTURE 
 “There are two things we should ask for with calm assurance: in this world a good life; in the world to come eternal life. About everything else, we don’t know whether it will be good for us.”
            Sermon 154A, 6

JULY 14 – SAINT CAMILLUS DE LELLIS
 “Even when we keep God’s commandments, it is not something we do in order to make God love us, for unless he loved us first we should not be able to keep them. It is the gift of his grace, a grace which is accessible to the humble of heart, but beyond the reach of the proud.”
            On John 82, 4
 

JULY 13 – SAINT HENRY
 “It is clear that God takes no pleasure in condemning. His desire is to save, and he bears patiently with evil people in order to make them good.”
            Sermon 18, 2

JULY 12 – SAINT JOHN GUALBERT
 “As love grows stronger, we feel more secure, and when our feeling of security is complete, fear vanishes, since, as the apostle John declares: Perfect love casts out fear.”
            Sermon 350A, 2 

JULY 11 – SAINT BENEDICT
 “Just as Caesar seeks his image in your coin, so God seeks his image in your character. Give back to Caesar, he says, what belongs to Caesar. What does Caesar look for from you? His image. What does God look for from you? His image.”
                        Sermon 113A, 8
 

JULY 10 – SAINT RUFINA
 “When what we ask God for is something good, we should persevere in praying for it until panting with desire, we receive it. You see, that’s why God puts off our requests, to stimulate our desires.”
            Sermon 154A, 5
 

JULY 9 – SAINT VERONICA GIULIANI
“The only one who can deliver you from the death of the flesh is the one who died in the flesh for you.”
            Sermon 76, 9

JULY 8 – SAINTS AQUILA AND PRISCILLA
 “May the one who formed us reform us, the one who created us recreate us, the one who installed us restore us to perfection.”
            Sermon 301A, 2

JULY 7 – SAINT EDDA
 “Don’t let pride swell in you, let it shrivel instead and rot. Be disgusted by it, throw it out. Christ is looking for a humble Christian.”
            Sermon 70A, 2

JULY 6 – SAINT MARIA GORETTI

 “I pray to you, my God, for to turn from you is to fall; to turn to you is
to rise again; to remain in you is to stand firm. Come to me in your
mercy.”

            Soliloquies 1, 3