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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
 
 

AUGUST 22 – QUEENSHIP OF MARY
“The love of neighbor is the shortest and safest path for reaching the love of God, but it is a trying one because it includes all the works of mercy, benevolence and kindness.”
            On the Letter of John 10, 3
 

AUGUST 21 – SAINT PIUS X
 “If you were cold, withered, worried only about yourself, practically self-sufficient, thinking that you gain nothing by concerning yourself about other people’s sins and that the only thing that is important is to keep yourself upright before God, do you not get a mental picture of that servant who hid his talent and not want to have it bear fruit?”
            On the Gospel of John 10, 9

AUGUST 20 – SAINT BERNARD
 “Praise the Lord with all that you are yourselves, for not only your tongue and your voice should praise the Lord, but also your conscience, your life and your deeds… If we never stop living a good life, we praise the Lord unceasingly.”
            On the Psalms 148, 2
 

AUGUST 19 – SAINT EZECHIEL MORENO, O.A.R.
 “I have experienced, and I still experience every day, that not a single mystery or obscure word of Holy Scripture becomes clear for me, unless I meet with the two commandments (love of God and love of neighbor).”
            Letter 55, 21

AUGUST 18 – SAINT HELENA
 “There is nothing to distinguish the children of God from the children of the devil except unselfish love… If you do not have this one thing, nothing else is worthwhile. If you lack all the rest, have this, and you have fulfilled the Law.”
            On the Letter of John 5, 7