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MARCH 16 – SAINT CIRIACUS
The good person is free, even if a slave, and the evil person is enslaved, even if a ruler – enslaved not to one master but, what is far worse, to as many masters as he has vices. It is in reference to these vices that Scripture says, For people are slaves to whatever masters them.
The City of God IV, 3

MARCH 15 – SAINT LOUISE
Christ himself has become the road, the way. Do you wish to be safe from thieves and robbers? He has said to you: I have prepared you a way to your heavenly home; do not turn aside from the way. I have built you a road such as no robber dare approach you by; as long as you stay on it the robber dare not come your way. Walk in Christ’s way, then, and sing joyful songs, as befits people full of consolation.
Sermon on Psalm 125

MARCH 14 – SAINT MATILDA
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 13 – SAINT RODRIGO
Those weaker Christians who clung to their earthly goods with some measure of desire, even though they did not prefer them to Christ, discovered in losing them how much they had sinned in loving them. They extent to which they grieved at their loss showed the extent to which they had … entangled themselves in many pains.”
The City of God I, 10

MARCH 12 – SAINT MAXIMILIAN
“When men see your works by your Spirit, it is you who see through their eyes. When they see that your works are good, it is you who see that they are good. When it is because of you that things please us, it is you who please us in them; and when it is by your Spirit that they please us, they please you in us.”
Confessions XIII, 31

MARCH 11 – SAINT CONSTANTINE
“The living soul takes its first beginnings from the earth, for only those who already have faith can profit by detaching themselves from earthly loves so that the soul which lived in death when it lived in luxury may live in you instead.”
Confessions XIII, 21

MARCH 10 – SAINT MACARIUS
“If Adam had not fallen away from you, the seed that flowed from him would not have been this bitter sea, the human race, forever chafing for knowledge in the profound depths of its ignorance, buffeted by the storms of its pride, and never at rest from its surge and swell.”
Confessions XIII, 20

MARCH 9 – SAINT FRANCES OF ROME
“All things are beautiful because you are their Maker; but you, who made them all, are more beautiful than they, far more so than words can tell.”
Confessions XIII, 20

MARCH 8 – SAINT JOHN OF GOD
“Who can understand the omnipotent Trinity? We all speak of it, though we may not speak of it as it truly is, for rarely does a soul know what it is saying when it speaks of the Trinity. Men wrangle and dispute about it, but it is a vision that is given to none unless they are at peace.”
Confessions XIII, 11