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MARCH 26 – SAINT EMMANUEL

“Desire God so that you may have him, and then finally you will be really
happy. This alone will make you truly happy. Love this, possess this; you
can have this when you wish and without cost.”

Commentary on Psalm 32, 16

MARCH 25 – THE ANNUNCIATION OF THE LORD
“Seek what is better than you are so that you can be made better by it. If you desire gold, you may or may not obtain it. But you can always possess God whenever you wish.”
Commentary on Psalm 32, 16

MARCH 24 – SAINT BERTHA
Let us put our trust in God, my brothers and sisters. This is the first commandment, the first principle of religion and of our life: to have our heart anchored in faith and thus to live uprightly, to hold ourselves aloof from mere pleasure, to endure temporal misfortune.
Sermon 38, 5

MARCH 23 – SAINT TURIBIUS OF MONGROVEJO
Since nothing is more contrary to love than envy, and the mother of envy is pride, to cure our boundless conceit by a more powerful antidote, the Lord Jesus Christ, God and man, became both the proof of God’s love for us, and the example of humility among us.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8

MARCH 22 – SAINT BENVENUTO
The chief reason for Christ’s coming was so that we should know how much God loves us, and knowing this be on fire with love for him who loved us first, and for our neighbor at the bidding and after the example of him who became our neighbor by loving uswhen we were not his neighbors, but had wandered far from him.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8

MARCH 21 – SAINT NICHOLAS OF FLUE
A true sacrifice is any deed whereby we cling to God in holy friendship: that is to say, a deed according to that virtuous purpose which can render us truly blessed. Hence, even an act of mercy, of benefit to men, is no sacrifice unless it be performed for God’s sake.
The City of God X, 6

MARCH 20 – SAINT CLAUDIA
If God is the soul of the world and the world is to him what the body is to the soul, … when anyone tramples on anything, he tramples on a part of God! When any living thing is killed, a part of God is slaughtered!
The City of God IV, 12

MARCH 19 – SAINT JOSEPH
Our God is present everywhere, wholly present everywhere, nowhere confined. He can be present without being seen, absent without moving away. When he afflicts me with adversity, he is either testing my merits or chastising my sins, and he is holding an eternal reward for my faithful endurance of temporal evils.
The City of God I, 29

MARCH 18 – SAINT CYRIL OF JERUSALEM
Death should not be thought an evil when a good life precedes it. For nothing makes death an evil except what follows death. Consequently, those who are inevitably going to die have little reason to worry about how they are going to die, and much reason to worry about where they will be brought by dying.
The City of God I, 11

MARCH 17 – SAINT PATRICK
Great is the misery of human pride, but even greater is the mercy of divine humility.
Catechizing the Uninstructed I,6,8