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OCTOBER 8 – SAINT JOHN LEONARDI
 “If you get lost through loving yourself, then of course you get found through denying yourself.”
            Sermon 96, 1-2

OCTOBER 7 – POPE SAINT MARK
“My brothers and sisters, give your attention to the love that holy scripture praises so much that nothing equals it. When God admonishes us to love one another, is this all he teaches: that you should love the one who loves you? This mutual love does not satisfy God, for he wants us to attain to loving our enemies.”
            Sermon 386, 1

OCTOBER 6 – SAINT BRUNO
 “You are all I possess, because You are my God. Shall I seek my father because of my inheritance? You, my God, are not only the giver of my inheritance, but the inheritance itself.”
            Commentary on Psalm 142

OCTOBER 5 – BLESSED FRANCIS SEELOS
 “Since most people are somehow like the loves that drive them, and since their one concern in determining how they ought to live should only be to choose what they should love, why be surprised if those who love Christ and want to follow Christ should deny themselves in loving him?”
            Sermon 96, 1-2

OCTOBER 4 – SAINT FRANCIS OF ASSISI
 “You can find someone who’s religious, with plenty of this world’s goods, and yet not thereby puffed up and proud. And you can find someone in need, who has nothing, and won’t settle for anything. This one does not have more grounds for hope than the former; the first is poor in spirit, because humble, while this one is indeed poor, but not in spirit.”
            Sermon 53A

OCTOBER 3 – SAINT THEODORA GUÉRIN
 “Blessed are the poor in spirit. What does poor in spirit mean? Being poor in wishes, not in means. One who is poor in spirit, you see, is humble; and God hears the groans of the humble and doesn’t despise their prayers.”
       Sermon 53A

OCTOBER 2 – THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
“Note the Psalmist’s words: ‘I sought the Lord and He answered me.’ Where did the Lord hear? Within. Where does He reply? Within. There you pray, there you are heard, and there you are made happy. Therefore, enter your heart. Happy are those who delight to enter their hearts and find no evil.”
            Commentary on Psalm 33

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