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SEPTEMBER 23 – SAINT PIO OF PIETRELCINA
“One must especially bear this in mind: let no one think that he can reach happiness and the God he loves if he looks down on his neighbor.”
            On the Customs of the Catholic Church 51

SEPTEMBER 22 – BLESSED JOSEPHINE OF THE PURIFICATION
“Their martyrs have gone ahead of us, they tower over us like giants. If we are not capable of following them in action, let us follow them in affection; if not in glory, then certainly in joy and gladness; if not in merit, then in desire; if not in suffering, then in fellow feeling; if not in excellence, then in our close relationship with them.”
            Sermon 273, 1.2.7.9.

SEPTEMBER 21 – SAINT MATTHEW 
“The more you progress in charity the more you will resemble God, and the more you will begin to experience him.”
            On Psalm 99, 5

SEPTEMBER 20 – SAINT ANDREW KIM TAE-GON & COMPANIONS
“Be like God, through piety, and love him in your thoughts! And since you know that his invisible attributes are seen and understood through created things, observe and admire creatures while seeking their creator. If you are unlike him, you will be reject; if you are like him, you will rejoice.”
            On Psalm 99, 6

SEPTEMBER 19 – SAINT ALONZO DE OROZCO, O.S.A. 
“The entire life of a good Christian is a holy desire. What you desire, however, you don’t yet see. But by desiring you are made large enough, so that, when there comes what you should see, you may be filled.”
            On the First Letter of John, 4

SEPTEMBER 18 – SAINT JOHN MACIAS
“Man would like to reach the delights of the beauty of perfect wisdom in a moment, but this does not happen in the land of mortal beings.”
            Against Faustus XII, 52

SEPTEMBER 17 – SAINT ROBERT BELLARMINE
“Love God without seeking a return. Bring as many as you can to him, as many as ought to possess him. He will not be insufficient. You will never divide him in parts. Each and every one will possess and hold him in his entirety.”
            On the Psalms 72, 34

SEPTEMBER 16 – SAINTS CORNELIUS AND CYPRIAN
“Let us strive to rejoice in the true inheritance which belongs to all rather than in what is just our own, so that those who live, as the apostle puts it, may live no longer just for themselves, but for him who died and rose again for all.”
            Letter 140, 68

SEPTEMBER 15 – SAINT VITUS
“If there is in you a well-ordered charity, you will know how to put the greater need before the lesser and allow yourself to be guided by mercy, so that the poor may be evangelized, so that the Lord’s abundant harvest may not be swallowed up by the birds of heaven because of a lack of laborers.”
            Letter 243, 8

SEPTEMBER 14 – EXALTATION OF THE HOLY CROSS
“The cross of Christ is a great lampstand. Whoever wishes to shine mustn’t be ashamed of this wooden lampstand … Let the world be crucified to you, crucify yourselves to the world. What does that mean? Don’t look to the world for happiness; hold yourselves back from the happiness of the world … If the good things of the world don’t corrupt you, if the bad things of the world don’t corrupt you, the world has been crucified to you, you have been crucified to the world. Glory in the lampstand.”
            Sermon 289, 6