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MARCH 31 – SAINT BENJAMIN
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Confessions X, 8

MARCH 30 – SAINT IRENE
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I outside myself, and there I searched for you.”
Confessions X, 27

MARCH 29 – SAINT SECONDO
“Particularly when I am worn out by the upsets of the world, I cast myself without reservation on the love of those who are especially close to me. I know that I can safely entrust my thoughts and considerations to those who are aflame with Christian love and have become faithful friends to me. For I am entrusting them not to another human, but to God in whom they dwell and by whom they are who they are.”
Letter 73, 3

MARCH 28 – SAINT SIXTUS III
“Let God be enough for you, because he doesn’t desert you. He thought about you before you existed, and won’t he think about you so that you can stay alive? You have already come to believe in him, you have praised him, you have placed your hopes in him, and will you lack what he knows we all need?”
Sermon 107A, 5

MARCH 27 – SAINT RUPERT
“If you recall that you have neglected to make up with someone, then wake up and shake off your listlessness. If you are so keen to exact payment from your debtor, just think for a moment that you are God’s debtor. If you are ashamed to ask someone to forgive you, overcome this bad sort of shame with a good sort of fear, so that with destructive animosities terminated, with them finally dead, you yourselves may live.”
Sermon 209, 1

MARCH 26 – SAINT EMMANUEL

“Desire God so that you may have him, and then finally you will be really
happy. This alone will make you truly happy. Love this, possess this; you
can have this when you wish and without cost.”

Commentary on Psalm 32, 16

MARCH 25 – THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
“Seek what is better than you are so that you can be made better by it. If you desire gold, you may or may not obtain it. But you can always possess God whenever you wish.”
Commentary on Psalm 32, 16

MARCH 24 – SAINT BERTHA
Let us put our trust in God, my brothers and sisters. This is the first commandment, the first principle of religion and of our life: to have our heart anchored in faith and thus to live uprightly, to hold ourselves aloof from mere pleasure, to endure temporal misfortune.
Sermon 38, 5

MARCH 23 – SAINT TURIBIUS OF MONGROVEJO
Since nothing is more contrary to love than envy, and the mother of envy is pride, to cure our boundless conceit by a more powerful antidote, the Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, became both the proof of God’s love for us, and the example of humility among us.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8