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MAY 6 – SAINT GIUDITTA
“You who do not yet see God will, by loving your neighbor, make yourself worthy of seeing him. By loving your neighbor, you cleanse your eyes so you can see God. Love your neighbor, then, and see within yourself the source of this love of neighbor. There you will see God insofar as you are able.”
Sermon on John 17, 8

MAY 5 – BLESSED MARTYRS OF SPAIN
“The martyrs practiced that perfect love which Christ said could not be surpassed. They offered their brothers and sisters the same kind of meal as they themselves had received from the table of the Lord.”
Sermon on John 84, 2

MAY 4 – BLESSED MARIE LEONIE PARADIS
“What does it mean not to love what you possess in this world? Don’t let it grip your hand which should be griping God. Don’t let it clog up your love, with which you can stretch out to God, and cling to the one who created you.”
Sermon 125, 7

MAY 3 – SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES
“Think of ordinary human love; think of it as the hand of the soul. If it is holding one thing, it can’t hold another. To be able to hold something it’s given, it must let go of what it is already holding.”
Sermon 125, 7

MAY 2 – SAINT ATHANASIUS
“Give to the person who doesn’t have something, because there is something that you too don’t have. So, give from what you have, in order to receive from what you don’t have. Let the beggar hammer at your door, while you for your part hammer at the door of the Lord. God treats his beggar as you treat yours.”
Sermon 350B

MAY 1 – SAINT JOSEPH THE WORKER
“Love peace, have peace, be in possession of peace, take to yourself as many others as you can to be in possession of peace with you. The more people it is possessed by, the more extensive it will be. An earthly house hasn’t got room for many; the property which is peace grows even bigger the more inhabitants it has.”
Sermon 357, 1

APRIL 30 – SAINT PIUS V
“Tolerance is absolutely necessary in this life for the poor, the rich, the healthy, the sick, for captives, for free persons, for exiles and foreigners, for those settled in their own country; tolerance is necessary, because all alike are exiles and foreigners in the world.”
Sermon 359A, 5

APRIL 29 – SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
“Let us all, human as we are, examine ourselves, and whatever good we find in ourselves that concerns our justification, let us give thanks for it to the one who gave it to us, let us also ask him for what he has not yet given us.”
Sermon 159, 9

APRIL 28 – SAINT PETER CHANEL
“Our wish is to attain eternal life. We wish to reach the place where nobody dies, but if possible, we don’t want to get there via death. We would like to be whisked away there while we are still alive, and see our bodies changed, while we are alive, into that spiritual form into which they are to be changed when we rise again.”
Sermon 359A, 8

APRIL 27 – SAINT ZITA
“Christ loved us so much that, sinless himself, he suffered for us sinners the punishment we deserved for our sins. How then can he fail to give us the reward we deserve for our righteousness, for he is the source of righteousness? How can he, whose promises are true, fail to reward the saints when he bore the punishment of sinners, though without sin himself?”
Sermon Guelferbytanus 3