SEPTEMBER 11 – SAINT VINCENT OF LEON
“To possess something, which is given without being consumed, and not to share it with others, means not to possess it in the right way.”
On Christian Doctrine 1, 1
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SEPTEMBER 10 – SAINT NICHOLAS OF TOLENTINO, O.S.A.
“When we cherish a constant desire along with the practice of faith, hope, and love, we ‘pray always’ … For the effect of our prayer will be in proportion to the fervor of the desire which goes into its making.”
Letter 130, 9, 18
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SEPTEMBER 9 – SAINT PETER CLAVER
“If the burden of apostolic ministry is not imposed on us, we should employ our freedom from business in the quest for truth and its contemplation, while if it is laid upon us, it is to be undertaken because of the compulsion of love.”
The City of God 19, 19
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SEPTEMBER 8 – SAINT EUSEBIUS
“All our toil in this life consists in purifying the eye of the heart in order to be able to see God. If seeing God is our whole task it follows that the stages of the spiritual life follow the very same lines as purification and contemplation, and contemplation, in fact, turns out to be the supreme and transcendent reward of the double toil involved in purification.”
The Measure of the Soul 33, 74
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SEPTEMBER 7 – SAINT EUSTACE
“It is difficult to discern Christ in the midst of the crowd. Our soul has need of solitude; if the soul is attentive, God allows himself to be seen. The crowd is noisy; to see God silence is necessary.”
On the Gospel of John 17, 11
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SEPTEMBER 6 – SAINT DIONYSIUS
“Your prayer is a conversation with God: when you read God speaks to you, when you pray you speak to God.”
On the Psalms 85, 7
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SEPTEMBER 5 – SAINT SHARBEL
“The Church knows two lives … One is in faith, the other in vision; one belongs to the time of pilgrimage, the other to the eternal dwelling-place; one is in exertion, the other in rest; one finds itself along the way, the other in the homeland; one is in the work of action, the other in the prize of contemplation.”
On the Gospel of John 124, 5
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SEPTEMBER 4 – OUR MOTHER OF CONSOLATION
“By (Mary’s) pious faith she merited that the holy child come to be in her. He created her in order to choose her, from whom he chose to be created.”
On Nature and Grace 36, 42
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SEPTEMBER 3 – SAINT GREGORY THE GREAT
“Let us seek in the conviction that we shall find and let us find in the conviction that we must go on to seek anew. ‘When a man finishes, he is only beginning.’”
On the Trinity 9, 2
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SEPTEMBER 2 – SAINT ANTONINUS
“God satisfies the seeker according to the seeker’s capacity; and the capacity of the finder he enlarges, so that the finder will seek the further fulfillment of which he now begins to be capable.”
On the Gospel of John 63, 1