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MAY 16 – SAINTS ALYPIUS AND POSSIDIUS
“Listen to me, you who are poor: what is lacking to you if you have God? Listen to me, you who are rich: what do you possess if you do not have God?”
Sermon 311, 14-15

MAY 15 – SAINT ISIDORE
“When we are harassed by poverty, saddened by bereavement, ill, or in pain, let good friends visit us. Let them be persons who not only can rejoice with those who rejoice but can weep with those who weep.”
Letter 130, 2

MAY 14 – SAINT MATTHIAS
“Do not make judgments about whom God draws and whom he does not draw, unless you wish to fall into error. Accept this once and for all, and understand it: you are not yet drawn to God? Pray that you may be drawn.”
On John 26, 2

MAY 13 – OUR LADY OF HELP
“Mary gave birth to your Head, and the Church gave birth to you. For the Church is also mother and virgin. She is mother by her entrails of charity, and virgin by the integrity of faith and piety.”
Sermon 192, 2

MAY 12 – BLESSED WILLIAM OF TIRRY, O.S.A.
“There is no disease that the Almighty Physician cannot cure. Just allow yourself to be healed and do not reject his healing hand. He knows what he is doing.”
On Psalm 72, 32

MAY 11 – SAINT FABIAN
“Brothers and sisters dwell together in unity not by their own strength or their own merits but by God’s grace, like dew from heaven. This dew comes from Christ. All you who wish to dwell in unity, desire this dew and be moistened by it. Otherwise you cannot hold firm what you profess.”
On Psalm 132, 10-11

MAY 10 – SAINT DAMIAN DE VEUSTER
“I sought for something to love, for I was in love with love. There was a hunger within me from a lack of inner food, which is none other than Yourself, my God. Yet that hunger did not make me hungry. I had no desire for incorruptible food. This was not because I was already fill with it but because the more I was empty of it the more it was loathsome to me.”
Confessions 3, 1

MAY 9 – ISAIAH THE PROPHET
“We approach God not by walking but by loving. The purer our love for him toward whom we are striving, the more present to us will he be. To him, therefore, who is everywhere present and everywhere whole, we must proceed not by our feet but by our moral virtues, judged not by the object of our knowledge but by the object of our love.”
Letter 155, 13

MAY 8 – OUR LADY OF GRACE
“I thank you, O Lord, my joy and my glory, my hope and my God. I thank you for your gifts to me. Keep them unharmed for me: they will be the making of me, and I shall be with you for my being is your gift.”
Confessions 1, 20

MAY 7 – BLESSED MARIA OF SAINT JOSEPH ALVARADO
“Put to flight my foolishness, Lord, that I may know you. Show me the road I must travel that I may see you. Thus aided, I hope I shall do all you have commanded me.”
Soliloquies 1, 1