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AUGUST 12 – SAINT JANE FRANCES DE CHANTAL
 “We should make a nest in our hearts for the Word of God.”
            Sermon 343, 1

AUGUST 11 – SAINT CLARE OF ASSISI
 “Christ humbled himself. Christian, that is what you must make your own. Christ became obedient. How is it that you are proud? When this humbling experience was completed and death itself lay conquered, Christ ascended into heaven. Let us follow him there.”
            Sermon 304, 1-4 

AUGUST 10 – SAINT LAWRENCE
 “In the Lord’s garden are to be found not only the roses of his martyrs. In it there are also the lilies of the virgins, the ivy of wedded couples, and the violets of widows. On no account may any class of people despair, thinking that God has not called them. Christ suffered for all.”
            Sermon 304, 1-4
 

AUGUST 9 – SAINT TERESA BENEDICTA OF THE CROSS
“Though we labor among the many distractions of this world, we should have but one goal. For we are but travelers on a journey without as yet a fixed abode; we are on our way, not yet in our native land; we are in a state of longing, not yet of enjoyment. But let us continue on our way … so that we may ultimately arrive at our destination.”
            Sermon 103, 1

AUGUST 8 – SAINT DOMINIC
 “Recognize and love the one who made you, and he will fill you, not with something of his, but with himself. You will possess God. You will be full of God. That is the great wealth of the soul.”
            Sermon 107A, 3

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