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APRIL 29 – SAINT CATHERINE OF SIENA
“Let us all, human as we are, examine ourselves, and whatever good we find in ourselves that concerns our justification, let us give thanks for it to the one who gave it to us, let us also ask him for what he has not yet given us.”
Sermon 159, 9

APRIL 28 – SAINT PETER CHANEL
“Our wish is to attain eternal life. We wish to reach the place where nobody dies, but if possible, we don’t want to get there via death. We would like to be whisked away there while we are still alive, and see our bodies changed, while we are alive, into that spiritual form into which they are to be changed when we rise again.”
Sermon 359A, 8

APRIL 27 – SAINT ZITA
“Christ loved us so much that, sinless himself, he suffered for us sinners the punishment we deserved for our sins. How then can he fail to give us the reward we deserve for our righteousness, for he is the source of righteousness? How can he, whose promises are true, fail to reward the saints when he bore the punishment of sinners, though without sin himself?”
Sermon Guelferbytanus 3

APRIL 26 – OUR MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL
“Did the Virgin Mary, who believed by faith and conceived by faith, who was the chosen one from whom our Savior was born among men, who was created in her – did she not do the will of the Father? Indeed, the blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will, and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been his mother, and she was more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood. Hers was the happiness of first bearing in her womb him whom she would obey as her master.”
Sermon 25

APRIL 25 – SAINT MARK
“Just as Caesar seeks his image in your coin, so God seeks his image in your character. Give back to Caesar, he says, what belongs to Caesar. What does Caesar look for from you? His image. What does God look for from you? His image. But Caesar’s image is on a coin, God’s image is in you.”
Sermon 113A, 8

APRIL 24 – SAINT FEDELIS
“Nobody should be afraid of spending money on the poor. Nobody should imagine that the one who receives it is the one whose outstretched hand he sees. The one who receives it is the one who ordered you to give it.”
Sermon 86, 3

APRIL 23 – SAINT GEORGE
“Now God made you, O man and woman, to his image. Do you think he would give you the wherewithal to see the sunlight which he made, and not give you the wherewithal to see the one who made you, considering that he made you to his own image? Of course, he gave this too; he gave you both capacities.”
Sermon 88, 6-7

APRIL 22 – SAINT LEONIDA
“The best of doctors has begun to cure you, and for him no disease is uncurable. Don’t be afraid for your past wickedness, however frightful, however unbelievable the things you have perhaps committed. They are grave diseases, but the doctor has mastered them. So, don’t worry about past sins; in one moment of the sacrament they will be forgiven, and absolutely all of them will be totally forgiven.”
Sermon 97A, 2

APRIL 21 – SAINT ANSELM
“There are things that even the poor can do for each other; they can lend their feet to the lame, the use of their eyes to guide the blind. Others can visit the sick, others bury the dead. Such things are available for everybody, so that it would really be extremely difficult to find anyone who cannot do something for someone else.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 16 – SAINT BERNADETTE
“You want to see God; the price of such a tremendous good as that is faith. Do you want to arrive, and not want to walk? Sight is possession, faith is the way to it. If you shirk the hard work of the journey, how can you expect the joy of possession?”
Sermon 359A, 3