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MAY 21 – SAINT CHRISTOPHER MAGALLANES
“As a lamp is not lighted by itself, so the human soul does not give light to itself but calls out to God, ‘You, indeed, O Lord, give light to my lamp.’”
Psalm 110, 2

MAY 20 – SAINT BERNARDINE OF SIENA
“In the body, the eye alone sees; but is it for itself alone that the eye sees? It sees both for the hand and the foot, and for all the other members.”
On Saint John 32, 8-9

MAY 19 – BLESSED CLEMENT OF OSIMO AND AUGUSTINE OF TARANO, O.S.A.
“Even those who live justly do so not through human merits but through divine helps. No persons live justly unless they have been made just; and humans are made just by him who can never be unjust.”
Psalm 110, 2

MAY 18 – BLESSED WILLIAM OF TOULOUSE, O.S.A.
“Jesus said: ‘To the person who has, it shall be given.’ God will give more to those who use for others that which they have received. He will fill up and pile to the brim what he first gave.”
Christian Doctrine 1, 1

MAY 17 – SAINT PASCHAL BAYLON
“The sound of my words strikes the ears, and the Master is within. Do not suppose that any human is the teacher of another. We can admonish by the sound of our voice; but unless there is one who teaches on the inside, the sound we make is futile.”
On 1 John 3, 12

MAY 16 – SAINTS ALYPIUS AND POSSIDIUS
“Listen to me, you who are poor: what is lacking to you if you have God? Listen to me, you who are rich: what do you possess if you do not have God?”
Sermon 311, 14-15

MAY 15 – SAINT ISIDORE
“When we are harassed by poverty, saddened by bereavement, ill, or in pain, let good friends visit us. Let them be persons who not only can rejoice with those who rejoice but can weep with those who weep.”
Letter 130, 2

MAY 14 – SAINT MATTHIAS
“Do not make judgments about whom God draws and whom he does not draw, unless you wish to fall into error. Accept this once and for all, and understand it: you are not yet drawn to God? Pray that you may be drawn.”
On John 26, 2

MAY 13 – OUR LADY OF HELP
“Mary gave birth to your Head, and the Church gave birth to you. For the Church is also mother and virgin. She is mother by her entrails of charity, and virgin by the integrity of faith and piety.”
Sermon 192, 2

MAY 12 – BLESSED WILLIAM OF TIRRY, O.S.A.
“There is no disease that the Almighty Physician cannot cure. Just allow yourself to be healed and do not reject his healing hand. He knows what he is doing.”
On Psalm 72, 32