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SEPTEMBER 13 – SAINT JOHN CHRYSOSTOM
“The love of spiritual beauty can be of such a nature that in it I do not envy others. Rather, I wish to multiply its lovers so that they may aspire to it with me, search for it with me, possess it with me and enjoy it with me. They will be so much the more friends for me insofar as our beloved is more fully shared by all of us.”
            Soliloquies 1, 13, 22

SEPTEMBER 12 – BLESSED THOMAS ZUMARRAGA 
“God wants you to pray so that you may experience desire, itself a gift from him, and thus, having this desire satisfied by him, you will not take for granted what he gives.”
            Sermon 56, 3, 4

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

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

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

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