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APRIL 5 – SAINT VINCENT FERRER
“Wherever the burning brand is turned, the flame knows no other road, but to seek the sky. Fervent in spirit, set yourselves alight with the fire of charity; get yourselves white-hot with the praises of God and the excellence of your morals. One person’s warm, another cold; let the warm person kindle the cold; and let the one who is lacking in ardor desire an increase, pray for assistance. The Lord is always ready to give; let us choose to receive with open, expansive hearts.”
Sermon 234, 3

APRIL 4 – SAINT ISIDORE
“Everyone delights at being at the top. But the step up to it is humility. Why stretch your foot out to what is beyond you? That way, you want to fall, not climb higher. The two disciples (James and John) didn’t want to bother with this step of humility … They were after a place at the top, they didn’t see the step. The Lord, however, pointed out the step. How did he reply? Can you drink the cup which I am going to drink?”
Sermon 96, 3-4

APRIL 3 – SAINT RICHARD
“Let us not look back at what we were before Christ bought us, in case we should remain stuck on the road. Let us not look back, and at the same time, though, let us keep it in remembrance. If we look back, you see, we return to it; if we forget it, we will be ungrateful.”
Sermon 335 1,2

APRIL 2 – SAINT FRANCIS OF PAOLA
“Don’t be ashamed or embarrassed about the cross of Christ; that’s why you received the sign of it on your forehead, as on the seat of shame. Remember what you have on your forehead, and don’t be terrified by someone else’s tongue.”
Sermon 160. 5

APRIL 1 – SAINT CELSUS
“You are aiming at Christ exalted on high; come back to him crucified on the cross. You want to reign and take pride in the thrones of Christ; first learn to say, Far be it from me to take pride in anything but in the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ. This is Christian teaching, the rule of humility, the recommendation of humility, that we should not take pride in anything except the cross of our Lord Jesus Christ.”
Sermon 160, 5

MARCH 31 – SAINT BENJAMIN
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Confessions X, 8

MARCH 30 – SAINT IRENE
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I outside myself, and there I searched for you.”
Confessions X, 27

MARCH 29 – SAINT SECONDO
“Particularly when I am worn out by the upsets of the world, I cast myself without reservation on the love of those who are especially close to me. I know that I can safely entrust my thoughts and considerations to those who are aflame with Christian love and have become faithful friends to me. For I am entrusting them not to another human, but to God in whom they dwell and by whom they are who they are.”
Letter 73, 3

MARCH 28 – SAINT SIXTUS III
“Let God be enough for you, because he doesn’t desert you. He thought about you before you existed, and won’t he think about you so that you can stay alive? You have already come to believe in him, you have praised him, you have placed your hopes in him, and will you lack what he knows we all need?”
Sermon 107A, 5

MARCH 27 – SAINT RUPERT
“If you recall that you have neglected to make up with someone, then wake up and shake off your listlessness. If you are so keen to exact payment from your debtor, just think for a moment that you are God’s debtor. If you are ashamed to ask someone to forgive you, overcome this bad sort of shame with a good sort of fear, so that with destructive animosities terminated, with them finally dead, you yourselves may live.”
Sermon 209, 1