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SEPTEMBER 1 – SAINT SIMEON
“What then brothers are we to say of God? For if you have understood what you want to say, it is not God. If you have been able to understand, you have understood something other than God.”
            Sermon 52, 6 

AUGUST 31 – SAINT RAYMOND NONNATUS
“Do not look to your own interests; have charity, proclaim truth. Thus you will reach the eternity where you will find freedom from care, and tranquility.”
            Sermon 78, 6
 

AUGUST 30 – SAINT JEANNE JUGAN
“What you procure for yourself you must also obtain for your neighbor, so that he also may love God with a perfect love. You do not love your neighbor as yourself unless you try to lead him to the same good towards which you are striving.”
            On the Customs of the Catholic Church 49

AUGUST 29 – THE PASSION OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
“My God, let me be thankful as I remember and acknowledge all your mercies. Let my whole self be steeped in love of you and all my being cry Lord, there is none like you! You have broken the chains that bound me; I will sacrifice in your honor.
            Confessions 8,1
 

AUGUST 28 – SAINT AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO
“Men go out and gaze in astonishment at high mountains, the huge waves of the sea, the broad reaches of rivers, the ocean that encircles the world, or the stars in their course. But they pay no attention to themselves.”
            Confessions 10, 8

AUGUST 27 – SAINT MONICA
“We did not think it right to mark my mother’s death with weeping and moaning, because such lamentations are the usual accompaniment of death when it is thought of as a state of misery or as total extinction. But she had not died in misery nor had she wholly died. Of this we were certain.”
            Confessions 9, 12

AUGUST 26 – SAINTS LIBERTUS, BONIFACE & COMPANIONS
“When you love Christ’s members you love Christ himself. When you love Christ you love the Son of God. When you love the Son of God, you love the Father. Love cannot be split up. Begin loving somewhere, and the rest will follow.”
            On the Letter of John 10, 3
 

AUGUST 25 – SAINT LOUIS
 “Longing is always a prayer, even though the tongue is silent. If you are longing without interruption, then you are always praying. When does our prayer sleep? Only when our desire cools.”
            Sermon 80, 7

AUGUST 24 – SAINT BARTHOLOMEW
“The love of God is first in the order of commandment, but the love of neighbor is first in the order of action … In loving your neighbor, and in being concerned about your neighbor, you get going. Where are you going, except to the Lord God.”
            On the Gospel of John 17, 8-9
 

AUGUST 23 – SAINT ROSE OF LIMA
“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