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MARCH 22 – SAINT BENVENUTO
The chief reason for Christ’s coming was so that we should know how much God loves us, and knowing this be on fire with love for him who loved us first, and for our neighbor at the bidding and after the example of him who became our neighbor by loving uswhen we were not his neighbors, but had wandered far from him.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8

MARCH 21 – SAINT NICHOLAS OF FLUE
A true sacrifice is any deed whereby we cling to God in holy friendship: that is to say, a deed according to that virtuous purpose which can render us truly blessed. Hence, even an act of mercy, of benefit to men, is no sacrifice unless it be performed for God’s sake.
The City of God X, 6

MARCH 20 – SAINT CLAUDIA
If God is the soul of the world and the world is to him what the body is to the soul, … when anyone tramples on anything, he tramples on a part of God! When any living thing is killed, a part of God is slaughtered!
The City of God IV, 12

MARCH 19 – SAINT JOSEPH
Our God is present everywhere, wholly present everywhere, nowhere confined. He can be present without being seen, absent without moving away. When he afflicts me with adversity, he is either testing my merits or chastising my sins, and he is holding an eternal reward for my faithful endurance of temporal evils.
The City of God I, 29

MARCH 18 – SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
Death should not be thought an evil when a good life precedes it. For nothing makes death an evil except what follows death. Consequently, those who are inevitably going to die have little reason to worry about how they are going to die, and much reason to worry about where they will be brought by dying.
The City of God I, 11

MARCH 17 – SAINT PATRICK
Great is the misery of human pride, but even greater is the mercy of divine humility.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8

MARCH 16 – SAINT CIRIACUS
The good person is free, even if a slave, and the evil person is enslaved, even if a ruler – enslaved not to one master but, what is far worse, to as many masters as he has vices. It is in reference to these vices that Scripture says, For people are slaves to whatever masters them.
The City of God IV, 3

MARCH 15 – SAINT LOUISE
Christ himself has become the road, the way. Do you wish to be safe from thieves and robbers? He has said to you: I have prepared you a way to your heavenly home; do not turn aside from the way. I have built you a road such as no robber dare approach you by; as long as you stay on it the robber dare not come your way. Walk in Christ’s way, then, and sing joyful songs, as befits people full of consolation.
Sermon on Psalm 125

MARCH 14 – SAINT MATILDA
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

MARCH 13 – SAINT RODRIGO
Those weaker Christians who clung to their earthly goods with some measure of desire, even though they did not prefer them to Christ, discovered in losing them how much they had sinned in loving them. They extent to which they grieved at their loss showed the extent to which they had … entangled themselves in many pains.”
The City of God I, 10