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MARCH 7 – SAINTS PERPETUA AND FELICITY
“It is in your Gift that we find our rest, Lord. It is in him that we enjoy you. The place where we find rest is the rightful one for us. To it we are raised by love. To it your Spirit lifts us up, lowly creatures as we are, from the gate of death. It is in goodness of will that we find our peace.”
Confessions XIII, 9

MARCH 6 – SAINT MARZIANO
“Let there be in mild-mannered and humble spirits a compassionate ease in forgiving. Let the one who has done an injury ask pardon; let the one who has suffered an injury grant pardon; so that we may not be possessed by Satan, whose triumph is the discord of Christians.”
Sermon 210, 12

MARCH 5 – SAINT ADRIAN OF CESAREA
“Confession humbles us, humbled it justifies us, justified it lifts us up on high. Because if we are proud, God opposes us; if we are humble, God exalts us.”
Sermon 23A, 4

MARCH 4 – SAINT CASIMIR
“Just as we have eyes to see with and ears to hear with, and the other senses for various perceptions, so we have a tongue to talk with… With it we pray to God, with it we make amends, with it we utter praises, with it we sing with one voice in harmony to God, with it every day we show ourselves kind and considerate when we talk to others or give them advice.”
Sermon 16A, 2

MARCH 3 – SAINT MARINO
“You are all looking forward to greeting Christ seated in heaven. Attend to him lying under the arches, attend to him hungry, attend to him shivering with cold, attend to him needy, attend to him a foreigner. Do it, if it’s already your practice; do it, if it isn’t your practice.”
Sermon 25, 8

MARCH 2 – SAINT LUCIO
“Since most people are somehow like the loves that drive them, and since their own concern in determining how they ought to live should only be to choose what they should love; why be surprised if those who love Christ and want to follow Christ should deny themselves in loving him?”
Sermon 96, 1

MARCH 1 – SAINT ALBINO
“Submit yourselves, my dear brothers and sisters, to a thorough interrogation, turn out your innermost closets and cupboards. Take careful stock of how much you have of charity – and increase the stock you find. Pay attention to that sort of treasure, so that you may be rich within.”
Sermon 34, 7

FEBRUARY 28 – SAINT ROMANUS
“Only if you know how to love yourself, will I entrust your neighbor to you to be loved. If you don’t yet know how to love yourself, I’m afraid you are only too likely to cheat your neighbor of love as you are cheating yourself.”
Sermon 128, 5

FEBRUARY 27 – SAINT GABRIEL
“If poverty pinches, if grief saddens, if pain overcomes us, if exile darkens our life, if anyother misfortune fills us with foreboding, let there be good friends at hand who know how to ‘weep with those who weep’ as well as ‘rejoice with those who rejoice.’ With such good friends such bitter trials are lessened, the heavy burdens are lightened, obstacles are met and overcome.”
Letter 130, 2.4

FEBRUARY 26 – SAINT ROMEO
“The world continues to grab at us, enticing us with its charms. We like lots of money, we like splendid honors, we like the power to dominate others. We like all these things, but let’s keep in mind the words of the apostle: ‘We brought nothing into this world, neither can we take anything out.’”
Sermon 39, 2