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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

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 

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

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 

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

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