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JULY 18 – SAINT FREDERICK
 “O Lord, hear me and turn your face to me. See me and pity me and heal me. In your eyes I have become an enigma to myself, and that is my infirmity.”
            Confessions 10, 33

JULY 17 – BLESSED MADELINE ALBRICI, O.S.A.
 “Enter into your conscience and examine it. If your heart does not accuse you that you act out of vainglory, it is well to be without fear. Fear only to act for the purpose of being praised.”
            Sermon on 1 John 8, 9

JULY 16 – OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
 “The mother to whom His infancy was subject, He ruled with His power; and to her at whose breasts He nursed, He gave the nourishment of truth.”
            Sermon 184, 3

JULY 15 – SAINT BONAVENTURE 
 “There are two things we should ask for with calm assurance: in this world a good life; in the world to come eternal life. About everything else, we don’t know whether it will be good for us.”
            Sermon 154A, 6

JULY 14 – SAINT CAMILLUS DE LELLIS
 “Even when we keep God’s commandments, it is not something we do in order to make God love us, for unless he loved us first we should not be able to keep them. It is the gift of his grace, a grace which is accessible to the humble of heart, but beyond the reach of the proud.”
            On John 82, 4
 

JULY 13 – SAINT HENRY
 “It is clear that God takes no pleasure in condemning. His desire is to save, and he bears patiently with evil people in order to make them good.”
            Sermon 18, 2

JULY 12 – SAINT JOHN GUALBERT
 “As love grows stronger, we feel more secure, and when our feeling of security is complete, fear vanishes, since, as the apostle John declares: Perfect love casts out fear.”
            Sermon 350A, 2 

JULY 11 – SAINT BENEDICT
 “Just as Caesar seeks his image in your coin, so God seeks his image in your character. Give back to Caesar, he says, what belongs to Caesar. What does Caesar look for from you? His image. What does God look for from you? His image.”
                        Sermon 113A, 8
 

JULY 10 – SAINT RUFINA
 “When what we ask God for is something good, we should persevere in praying for it until panting with desire, we receive it. You see, that’s why God puts off our requests, to stimulate our desires.”
            Sermon 154A, 5
 

JULY 9 – SAINT VERONICA GIULIANI
“The only one who can deliver you from the death of the flesh is the one who died in the flesh for you.”
            Sermon 76, 9