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MAY 26 – SAINT PHILIP NERI
“It was you, O Lord, who created the heavens and earth. They are beautiful because you are beautiful. They are good because you are good. They have come to be because you are.”
Confessions 11, 4

FEBRUARY 29 – SAINT OSWALD
“All your work shall be done for the common good, with greater zeal and more dispatch than if each of you were working for yourself alone. For charity is not self-seeking, meaning that it places the common good before its own, not its own before the common good. So whenever you show greater concern for the common good than for your own, you may know that you are growing in charity.”
The Rule, V, 2

February 1 – SAINT SEVERUS
Every work that effects our union with God in a holy fellowship is a true sacrifice; every work, that is, which is referred to that final end, that ultimate good, by which we are able to be in the true sense happy. As a consequence, even that mercy by which aid is given to man is not a sacrifice unless it is done for the sake of God.
City of God, 10, 6

APRIL 20 – SAINT AGNES OF MONTEPULCIANO
“(Some people) have the ability to teach; let them make distribution from the storerooms of the Lord, handing out food to their fellow servants, confirming the faithful, calling back those who stray, seeking the lost as best they can.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 19 – SAINT EMMA
“We should all do for one another whatever things we have at our disposal. If you have more than enough, lavish it on the destitute. Some people have plenty of money; let them feed the poor, clothe the naked, build a church … Other people have the gift of counsel; let them guide their neighbors, dispersing the darkness of doubt with the light of a loving faith.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 18 – SAINT GALDINO
“The steps which we take along the highway are the love of God and of our neighbor. If you love, you’re running; and the more consistently you love, the faster you run, while the less you love, the more sluggish your progress along the road.”
Sermon 346B, 2

APRIL 17 – SAINT ANICETO
“While love of God is the great commandment that first has to be impressed on us, love of neighbor the second, one begins all the same from the second in order to attain to the first” For if you do not love the person whom you can see, how will you be able tolove God, whom you cannot see?”
Sermon 265, 9

APRIL 11 – SAINT STANISLAUS
“The fullness of faith is to believe that Christ is both man and God. (Thomas) was offered the scars of his Savior to touch and when he touched them he exclaimed ‘My Lord and my God!’ He touched the man, he recognized God.”
            Sermon 258, 3

APRIL 10 – SAINT EZECHIEL
“Christ made himself an example of the life we live now by his labors, his temptations, his suffering, and his death. In his resurrection he demonstrates the life we will live after death. Without him all that we would have known about human life is that we are born and we die. We would not have known that anyone could rise from the dead and live forever.”
Commentary on Psalm 60, 4

APRIL 9 – SAINT WALTER
“Receive and eat the body of Christ … receive and drink the blood of Christ. In order not to be scattered and separated, eat what binds you together; in order not to seem cheap in your own estimation, drink the price that was paid for you. Just as this turns into you when you eat and drink it, so you for your part turn into the body of Christ when you live devout and obedient lives.”
Sermon 228B, 3