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FEBRUARY 12 – SAINT DAMIAN
“Lord, you frighten me! You demand from me what you gave me. You gave me my talents because you want to profit from them. You don’t want them hidden away in some secret place. You don’t want to get back only what you gave me. You want more. You want back all your money, every coin that bears your image – i.e., every human soul that ever existed.”
Sermon 125, 8

February 11 – OUR LADY OF LOURDES
The Virgin Mary is both holy and blessed, and yet the Church is greater than she. Mary is a part of the Church, a member of the Church, a holy, an eminent – the most eminent – member, but still only a member of the entire body. The body undoubtedly is greater than she, one of its members. This body has the Lord for its head, and head and body together make up the whole Christ. In other words, our head is divine – our head is God.
Sermon 25

February 10 – SAINT SCHOLASTICA
In this faith, hope and love we pray always with unwearied desire. However, at set times and seasons we also pray to God in words, so that by these signs we may instruct ourselves and mark the progress we have made in our desire, and spur ourselves on to deepen it. The more fervent the desire, the more worthy will be its fruit.
Letter 130, 8

MAY 31 – VISITATION OF MARY
“Let our beautiful God, the Word with God, come to us that we may gaze upon Him with the eyes of our minds. He was beautiful in the womb of the Virgin where in taking on our humanity, He nonetheless did not lose His divinity.”
On Psalm 44, 3

MAY 30 – SAINT FERNANDO
“It is a height out of proportion to our state to leave God to whom the soul should cling as its basis and to become in some way our own basis. This is what happens when the soul is too pleased with itself.”
City of God 14, 4

MAY 29 – SAINT MAXIMINIAN
“Lord, you perfected my love so that I might surmount the dark entanglements of this world. Direct my desire toward the heavenly home, so that I may be enriched with every good thing.”
On Psalm 17, 34

MAY 28 – SAINT EMILIO
“’Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.’ We speak from without; He builds from within. It is he who builds, counsels, inspires fear, opens your minds and directs them to faith.”
On Psalm 126, 1

MAY 27 – SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY
“Let me know you, my Father, let me know you as I too am known. Enter my soul, you who are its strength, and make it what you want, so that you may have and possess it without stain or wrinkle.”
Confessions 10, 1

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