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OCTOBER 1 – SAINT THERESE
“This is what holding to the right path means: that we should keep our eyes always on the Lord, for he will deliver our feet from the snare. He who so conducts himself is neither parched in the heat of business nor chilled by idleness; neither boisterous nor languid, neither reckless nor renegade, neither foolhardy nor feeble.”
            Letter 48

SEPTEMBER 30 – SAINT JEROME
“In a building nothing comes before the foundation. Thus, whoever has Christ in his heart in such a way as to place nothing ahead of him, nothing earthly or temporal, even of those things that are licit and permissible, has Christ as his foundation.”
            City of God XX, 16

SEPTEMBER 29 – SAINT MICHAEL, GABRIEL, RAPHAEL
“You have before you always the one to follow. The Lord left the model on earth, when he left you the Gospel, and through the Gospel he is always with you.”
            Sermon 142, 9

SEPTEMBER 28 – BLESSED PETER AND THOMAS & COMPANIONS, O.S.A.
“If you would be safe from your enemy, learn to love him. Make charity grow in yourself, for it will shape you and restore you in God’s image. When your charity extends to your enemies you will resemble the One who makes his sun rise not only on the good but on good and evil, and waters not only the field of the good man, but the field of the just and the sinner alike.”
            On Psalm 99, 5

SEPTEMBER 27 – SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
“God stretches our desire through delay, stretches our soul through desire, and makes it large enough by stretching it. Let us desire, then, because we have to be filled.”
            On the First Letter of John, 4 

SEPTEMBER 26 – SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN
“Whoever goes to Christ goes from fear to love.”
            Confessions IV, 14, 22

SEPTEMBER 25 – SAINT VINCENT STRAMBI
“What you procure for yourself you must also obtain for your neighbor, so that he also may love God with a perfect love. You do not love your neighbor as yourself unless you try to lead him to the same good towards which you are striving. It is a question of a good which does not grow smaller because everybody is searching for it with you.”
            On the Customs of the Catholic Church, 49

SEPTEMBER 24 – SAINT GERARD SAGREDO 
“Do not put your leisure ahead of the needs of the Church. If there had not been good ministers who had decided to help her when she gave birth, we would not have found a way to be born.”
            Letter 48, 2

SEPTEMBER 23 – SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA
“One must especially bear this in mind: let no one think that he can reach happiness and the God he loves if he looks down on his neighbor.”
            On the Customs of the Catholic Church 51

SEPTEMBER 22 – BLESSED JOSEPHINE OF THE PURIFICATION
“Their martyrs have gone ahead of us, they tower over us like giants. If we are not capable of following them in action, let us follow them in affection; if not in glory, then certainly in joy and gladness; if not in merit, then in desire; if not in suffering, then in fellow feeling; if not in excellence, then in our close relationship with them.”
            Sermon 273, 1.2.7.9.