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OCTOBER 3 – SAINT THEODORA GUÉRIN
 “Blessed are the poor in spirit. What does poor in spirit mean? Being poor in wishes, not in means. One who is poor in spirit, you see, is humble; and God hears the groans of the humble and doesn’t despise their prayers.”
       Sermon 53A

OCTOBER 2 – THE GUARDIAN ANGELS
“Note the Psalmist’s words: ‘I sought the Lord and He answered me.’ Where did the Lord hear? Within. Where does He reply? Within. There you pray, there you are heard, and there you are made happy. Therefore, enter your heart. Happy are those who delight to enter their hearts and find no evil.”
            Commentary on Psalm 33

OCTOBER 1 – SAINT THERESE
“This is what holding to the right path means: that we should keep our eyes always on the Lord, for he will deliver our feet from the snare. He who so conducts himself is neither parched in the heat of business nor chilled by idleness; neither boisterous nor languid, neither reckless nor renegade, neither foolhardy nor feeble.”
            Letter 48

SEPTEMBER 30 – SAINT JEROME
“In a building nothing comes before the foundation. Thus, whoever has Christ in his heart in such a way as to place nothing ahead of him, nothing earthly or temporal, even of those things that are licit and permissible, has Christ as his foundation.”
            City of God XX, 16

SEPTEMBER 29 – SAINT MICHAEL, GABRIEL, RAPHAEL
“You have before you always the one to follow. The Lord left the model on earth, when he left you the Gospel, and through the Gospel he is always with you.”
            Sermon 142, 9

SEPTEMBER 28 – BLESSED PETER AND THOMAS & COMPANIONS, O.S.A.
“If you would be safe from your enemy, learn to love him. Make charity grow in yourself, for it will shape you and restore you in God’s image. When your charity extends to your enemies you will resemble the One who makes his sun rise not only on the good but on good and evil, and waters not only the field of the good man, but the field of the just and the sinner alike.”
            On Psalm 99, 5

SEPTEMBER 27 – SAINT VINCENT DE PAUL
“God stretches our desire through delay, stretches our soul through desire, and makes it large enough by stretching it. Let us desire, then, because we have to be filled.”
            On the First Letter of John, 4 

SEPTEMBER 26 – SAINTS COSMAS AND DAMIAN
“Whoever goes to Christ goes from fear to love.”
            Confessions IV, 14, 22

SEPTEMBER 25 – SAINT VINCENT STRAMBI
“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. It is a question of a good which does not grow smaller because everybody is searching for it with you.”
            On the Customs of the Catholic Church, 49

SEPTEMBER 24 – SAINT GERARD SAGREDO 
“Do not put your leisure ahead of the needs of the Church. If there had not been good ministers who had decided to help her when she gave birth, we would not have found a way to be born.”
            Letter 48, 2