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MAY 9 – ISAIAH THE PROPHET
“We approach God not by walking but by loving. The purer our love for him toward whom we are striving, the more present to us will he be. To him, therefore, who is everywhere present and everywhere whole, we must proceed not by our feet but by our moral virtues, judged not by the object of our knowledge but by the object of our love.”
Letter 155, 13

MAY 8 – OUR LADY OF GRACE
“I thank you, O Lord, my joy and my glory, my hope and my God. I thank you for your gifts to me. Keep them unharmed for me: they will be the making of me, and I shall be with you for my being is your gift.”
Confessions 1, 20

MAY 7 – BLESSED MARIA OF SAINT JOSEPH ALVARADO
“Put to flight my foolishness, Lord, that I may know you. Show me the road I must travel that I may see you. Thus aided, I hope I shall do all you have commanded me.”
Soliloquies 1, 1

MAY 6 – SAINT GIUDITTA
“You who do not yet see God will, by loving your neighbor, make yourself worthy of seeing him. By loving your neighbor, you cleanse your eyes so you can see God. Love your neighbor, then, and see within yourself the source of this love of neighbor. There you will see God insofar as you are able.”
Sermon on John 17, 8

MAY 5 – BLESSED MARTYRS OF SPAIN
“The martyrs practiced that perfect love which Christ said could not be surpassed. They offered their brothers and sisters the same kind of meal as they themselves had received from the table of the Lord.”
Sermon on John 84, 2

MAY 4 – BLESSED MARIE LEONIE PARADIS
“What does it mean not to love what you possess in this world? Don’t let it grip your hand which should be griping God. Don’t let it clog up your love, with which you can stretch out to God, and cling to the one who created you.”
Sermon 125, 7

MAY 3 – SAINTS PHILIP AND JAMES
“Think of ordinary human love; think of it as the hand of the soul. If it is holding one thing, it can’t hold another. To be able to hold something it’s given, it must let go of what it is already holding.”
Sermon 125, 7

MAY 2 – SAINT ATHANASIUS
“Give to the person who doesn’t have something, because there is something that you too don’t have. So, give from what you have, in order to receive from what you don’t have. Let the beggar hammer at your door, while you for your part hammer at the door of the Lord. God treats his beggar as you treat yours.”
Sermon 350B

MAY 1 – SAINT JOSEPH THE WORKER
“Love peace, have peace, be in possession of peace, take to yourself as many others as you can to be in possession of peace with you. The more people it is possessed by, the more extensive it will be. An earthly house hasn’t got room for many; the property which is peace grows even bigger the more inhabitants it has.”
Sermon 357, 1

APRIL 30 – SAINT PIUS V
“Tolerance is absolutely necessary in this life for the poor, the rich, the healthy, the sick, for captives, for free persons, for exiles and foreigners, for those settled in their own country; tolerance is necessary, because all alike are exiles and foreigners in the world.”
Sermon 359A, 5