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January 18 – SAINT PRISCA
We have heard in the Gospel how the Lord Jesus Christ was tempted by the devil in the wilderness. Certainly Christ was tempted by the devil. … If in Christ we have been tempted, in him we overcome the devil. Do you think only of Christ’s temptation and fail to think of his victory? See yourself as tempted in him, and see yourself as victorious in him. He could have kept the devil from himself; but if he were not tempted he could not teach you how to triumph over temptation.
On Psalm 60

January 17 – SAINT ANTONY, ABBOT
“O Lord, our God, let the shelter of your wings give us hope. Protect us and uphold us. You will be the Support that upholds us from childhood till the hair on our heads is grey. When you are our strength we are strong, but when our strength is our own, we are weak. In you our good abides forever, and when we turn away from it we turn to evil. Let us come home at last to you, O Lord, for fear that we be lost.”
Confessions, IV, 16

January 16 – SAINT MARCELLUS
“My love of you, O Lord, is not some vague feeling; it is positive and certain. Your word struck into my heart and from that moment I loved you. Besides this, all about me, heaven and earth and all that they contain proclaim that I should love you, and their message never ceases to sound in the ears of all mankind, so that there is no excuse for any not to love you.”
Confessions, X 6

January 15 – SAINT MAURUS
“Let me know you, for you are the God who knows me; let me recognize you as you have recognized me. You are the power of my soul; come into it and make it fit for yourself, so that you may have it and hold it without stain or wrinkle. This is my hope; this is why I speak as I do; this is the hope that brings me joy, when my joy is in what is to save me.”
Confessions, X, 1

January 14 – SAINT FELIX OF NOLA
“Every other vice prompts people to do evil deeds; but pride lies in ambush even for good deeds, to destroy them. What advantage is it to scatter abroad and give to the poor and become poor oneself, if the mind in its misery becomes prouder in despising riches than it was in possessing them?”
The Rule, Chapter 1

January 13 – SAINT ILARIO
“This is my recommendation to you, my brothers and sisters; give earthly bread, and knock at the door of the heavenly bread; the Lord is bread. ‘I’, He said, ‘am the bread of life’. How will He give it to you, if you do not give it to the person in need? … So while He is the Lord, and the real Lord, and no need of our goods, all the same, in order that we might do something for Him, He was ready to be hungry in His poor.”
Sermon 359, 5-6

January 12 – SAINT MODESTO
“Do justice and you will have peace, thus justice and peace will embrace. If you do not love justice you will not have peace. These two virtues, peace and justice, love and embrace one another in such a way that whoever does justice will encounter the peace that embraces justice. They are two friends.”
On the Psalms 84, 12

January 11 – SAINT EUGENE
Don’t let Satan creep up on you, saying what he customarily says: ‘Enjoy yourself in God’s creation. Why did he make those things if not for you to enjoy them?’ And they get drunk, and they ruin themselves, and they forget their creator. As long as they use created things not temperately by inordinately, the creator is disdained. Of such persons the Apostle says, ‘They adored and served the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever.’ God doesn’t forbid you to love those things, but you must not love them in expectation of blessedness. Rather, you must favor and praise them in such a way that you love the creator.
On the First Letter of John 2,11

January 10 – SAINT ALDO
Who are the ones that feed themselves? Those about whom the apostle says, ‘For all see their own advantage, not that of Jesus Christ’ (Phil. 2,21). … So since the sole reason people are put in charge is to consider the interests of those they are in charge of, and not at all to attend to their own advantage but only that of those they are in service of – anyone put in charge who just enjoys being in control and seeks his own honor and looks to his own convenience is feeding himself, not the sheep.
Sermon 46, 2

January 9 – SAINT JULIAN
We already know the head and the body. He is the head and we the body. When we hear His voice we must understand it as coming from the head and the body, because the whole suffered. We also suffered in him and, what we suffer. He suffers in us. If a man’s head suffers, can we say that the hands suffer not? Or, if the hands suffer, can it be said that the head suffers not?
Exposition on the Psalms 62,2