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November 10 – SAINT LEO THE GREAT
“Now is the time of mercy, for us to correct ourselves; the time for judgment has not yet come. There is space, there’s room; we have sinned, let us correct ourselves. The journey is not yet over, the day has not yet drawn to a close, we have not yet breathed our last. There is no need to despair, which is worse than anything, because on account of those human and pardonable sins, the more frequent the more trivial they are. God has established in the Church set times for requesting mercy, a daily medicine of our saying Forgive us our debts, as we too forgive our debtors; so that washing our faces with these words we may share together in the body and blood of Christ.”
Sermon 17, 5

November 9
“The teacher of humility, who shared our weakness and gave us a share in his own divinity, came to earth in order to teach us the way, even to be the Way himself. It was his humility, above all else, that he impressed upon us. He willingly submitted to baptism at the hands of one of his servants, so that we might learn to confess our own sins and to become weak in order to be truly strong, repeating with the apostle: When I am weak, then I am strong.”
Exposition of the Psalms 58

November 8 – BLESSED AVELINO RODRIGUEZ & COMPANIONS, O.S.A.
“Dearly beloved, exult and rejoice on the days of the holy martyrs; pray that you may be able to follow in the footsteps of the martyrs. It isn’t, after all, the case that you are human beings and they weren’t; not, after all, the case that you were born, and they were born quite differently; I mean, they didn’t carry around flesh of a different kind from what you do. We are all from Adam, we are all trying to be in Christ.”
Sermon 273

November 7 – BLESSED GRATIA OF KOTOR, O.S.A.
“If a man in poor circumstances becomes a monk, he should not think that he is doing the same work as he did before, if in fact he has made the passage from a love of increasing his private possessions by even a little to the charity of the common life, in which he no longer looks to his own interests but to those of Jesus Christ. He has passed into the fellowship of those who have one soul and one heart intent on God, among whom no one calls anything his own but everything is held in common.”
On the Work of Monks

November 6 – AUGUSTINIAN HOLY SOULS
“It is inevitable that we should be sad when those we love desert us by dying. Although we know they are not leaving us forever, but that we who remain will follow them who have gone a little in advance of us; nevertheless, when that death our nature shrinks from seizes one we love, it strikes us in the very love we bear. That is why the Apostle did not tell us that we should not be saddened, but that we should not be saddened in the same way as those who have no hope. In the death of those who are close to us we experience both sadness at the necessity of losing them and hope of getting them back. By the former we are distressed, by the latter consoled.”
Sermon 172, 1-3

November 5 – BLESSED MARIANO DE LA MATA, O.S.A.
“My advice is, ‘Give to the poor, and you will have treasure in heaven.’ You won’t be left without any treasure, but what you hold on to so anxiously on earth, you will keep in heaven with nothing to worry about at all. So, transfer it. I’m giving you advice on how to keep it, not on how to lose it. ‘You will have, he says, treasure in heaven; and, come follow me,’ and I will lead you to your treasure; it’s not a question of making a loss, but of making a profit.”
Sermon 389, 4

November 4 – SAINT CHARLES BORROMEO
“We bishops are your servants – your servants, but also your fellow servants. We are your servants, but all of us have one Lord. We are your servants, but for Jesus’ sake, as the Apostle says, ‘We are your servants for Jesus’ sake’ (2 Cor 4:5). Through him we are servants, and through him we are also free; it is he who tells those who believe in him, ‘If the Son sets you free, you will be truly free’ (Jn 8:36). Shall I hesitate, then, to be a servant through him, since unless I become free through him I should remain lost in slavery? We have been placed at the head and we are servants. We are in command, but only if we are useful.”
Sermon 340A

November 3 – SAINT MARTIN DE PORRES

“Among the great and salutary instructions, the divine and lofty precepts
which our Lord gave his disciples, people think this one is very hard, in
which he ordered them to love their enemies. It’s a hard precept, but a
grand reward. Anyway, notice what he said when he was giving this
admonition: Love your enemies, do good to those who hate you, and pray for
those who persecute you. You have heard what the work is; wait for the
reward and see what he will add: that you may be, he says, children of your
father who is in heaven, who makes his sun rise on the good and the bad,
and sends rain upon the just and the unjust. We see this happening, we
can’t deny it. … Benefits from the sky, benefits from the earth; the
springs bubble up, the fields are fertile, the trees are laden with fruit.
The good enjoy these things, the bad enjoy them too; the grateful enjoy
them, the ungrateful enjoy them. If he bestows such blessings on good and
bad alike, do you suppose he keeps nothing special for the good? He gives
to good and bad alike what he gave to the men who stoned Stephen, but it is
what he gave Stephen that he keeps for the good.”

Sermon 317, 1

November 2 – ALL SOULS
“Jesus came to save us. He died but at the same time he conquered death. He put an end to what we fear so much. He took it on and conquered it. So be of good heart, my friends. What has already taken place in Jesus will also take place in us. Listen to those who have triumphed and now live where death is no more. Hear Paul saying, ‘When what is mortal has been clothed with what is immortal and when that which will die has been clothed with what cannot die, then the Scripture will come true: Death is destroyed, victory is complete! Where, O Death, is your victory? Where, O Death, is your sting?’”
Sermon 233, 3-4