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AUGUST 7 – SAINT SIXTUS
 “People who are beyond hope pay all the less attention to their own sins, the more interested they are in those of others. They are looking for a chance to tear others to bits, not to put them right. Unable to excuse themselves, they are only too ready to accuse others.”
            Sermon 19, 2

AUGUST 6 – THE TRANSFIGURATION
 “Life came down, to be killed; bread came down, to go hungry; the way came down, to grow weary on a journey; the fountain came down, to experience thirst; and are you, Peter, refusing to endure toil? Don’t seek your own profit. Have charity and love, preach the truth; then you will arrive at eternity, where you will find security.”
            Sermon 78, 6 

AUGUST 5 – DEDICATION OF SAINT MARY MAJOR
 “If it’s shameless of a farmer to look for a crop where he knows he hasn’t sown any seed, how much more shameless must it be to look to God to be rich in giving, when you have declined to listen to a poor man asking? It is in the poor person, after all, that the one who is never hungry has wished to be fed.”
            Sermon 206, 2 

AUGUST 4 – SAINT JOHN VIANNEY
 “Let us lead good lives, and while we lead good lives let us on no account take it for granted that we are without sin. Living a life that is praiseworthy includes begging pardon for things that are blameworthy.”
            Sermon 19,2

AUGUST 3 – SAINT LYDIA
 “Love God; whatever you love, it comes from him. Don’t let us love the creature to the neglect of the creator, but let us pay attention to the creature, and praise the creator. I can’t show you my God; I can show you what he made.”
            Sermon 261, 4

AUGUST 2 – BLESSED JOHN OF RIETI, O.S.A.
 “The visible things that are delightful, they’re beautiful, they’re good; seek the one who made them, he it is that is your hope. He it is that is now your hope, he it is that will later on be the reality you will possess; your hope while you believe, your possession when you see.”
            Sermon 313F, 3

AUGUST 1 – SAINT ALPHONSUS LIGUORI
 “Whatever points are made by God’s holy scriptures, this is their ultimate point, to help us purge that inner faculty of ours from that thing that prevents us from beholding God.”
            Sermon 88, 5

JULY 31 – SAINT IGNATIUS OF LOYOLA
 “In walking in faith, let us do good. In our good works let love of God be free, love of neighbor considerate and kind. After all, we haven’t got anything we can do for God; but because there are plenty of things we can do for our neighbor, by helping the needy we shall deserve well of the divine abundance.”
            Sermon 91, 9
 

JULY 30 – SAINT PETER CHRYSOLOGUS
“The spirit of the person who actually hands something to a poor man experiences a kind of sympathy with common humanity and infirmity when the hand of the one who has is actually place in the hand of the one who is in need. Although the one is giving, the other is receiving; the one being attended to and the one attending are being joined in a real relationship.” 
Sermon 259, 5

JULY 29 – SAINT MARTHA
 “In Martha was to be found the image of things present, in Mary that of things to come. The kind Martha was leading, that’s where we are; the kind Mary was leading, that’s what we are hoping for; let us lead this one well, in order to have that one to the full.”
            Sermon 104, 4