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JUNE 19 – SAINT ROMUALD
“Lord, my God, how great you are, and yet you make your home in the humble of heart! It is you who lift up the downtrodden, and you who are their grandeur.”
            Confessions 11, 31

JUNE 18 – SAINT GREGORY BARBARIGO
“This is the rule of love: the good that we desire for ourselves we desire for our neighbor also; and the evil that we are unwilling to undergo we wish to prevent from happening to our neighbor.”
            On True Religion 87

JUNE 17 – SAINT ADOLF
“Understand that no one is telling you, ‘Be less than you are,’ but ‘know what you are.’ Know that you are human. Know that you are a sinner. Know that it is God who frees you from blame.”
            Sermon 137, 4 

JUNE 16 – SAINT AURELIANO
“Let us leave a little room for reflection, room too for silence. Enter into yourself and leave behind all noise and confusion. Look within yourself.”
            Sermon 52, 22

JUNE 15 – SAINT VITO
“I speak not as a master but as a minister, not to pupils but to fellow pupils since I speak not to servants but to fellow servants. We all have one Master, whose school is on earth and whose seat is in heaven.”
Sermon 242, 1

JUNE 14 – SAINT ELISEO
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin from what is slightest. Do you plan to construct a high and mighty building? Then think first about the foundation of humility.”
Sermon 69, 2

JUNE 13 – SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA
“Bad times! Troublesome times! This is what people are saying. Let our lives be good and the times will be good. For we make our own times. Such as we are, such are the times.”
Sermon 30, 8

JUNE 12 – SAINT JOHN OF SAHAGUN, O.S.A.
“Maybe we cannot convert masses of people to a good life. But let the few who do hear live well. Let the few who live well endure the many who live badly.”
Sermon 30, 8

JUNE 11 – SAINT BARNABAS
“Extend your love over the whole earth if you desire to love Christ, for Christ’s members are all over the earth. If you love but a part, you are divided.”
Sermon on 1 John 10, 7

JUNE 10 – MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
“Put to flight my foolishness, Lord, that I may know you. Show me the road I must travel that I may see you.”
Soliloquies 1, 1