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APRIL 20 – SAINT AGNES OF MONTEPULCIANO
“(Some people) have the ability to teach; let them make distribution from the storerooms of the Lord, handing out food to their fellow servants, confirming the faithful, calling back those who stray, seeking the lost as best they can.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 19 – SAINT EMMA
“We should all do for one another whatever things we have at our disposal. If you have more than enough, lavish it on the destitute. Some people have plenty of money; let them feed the poor, clothe the naked, build a church … Other people have the gift of counsel; let them guide their neighbors, dispersing the darkness of doubt with the light of a loving faith.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 18 – SAINT GALDINO
“The steps which we take along the highway are the love of God and of our neighbor. If you love, you’re running; and the more consistently you love, the faster you run, while the less you love, the more sluggish your progress along the road.”
Sermon 346B, 2

APRIL 17 – SAINT ANICETO
“While love of God is the great commandment that first has to be impressed on us, love of neighbor the second, one begins all the same from the second in order to attain to the first” For if you do not love the person whom you can see, how will you be able tolove God, whom you cannot see?”
Sermon 265, 9

APRIL 15 – SAINT HANNIBAL
“You’ll find people grumbling about their times and saying that the times of our parents were good. Suppose, though, they could be whisked back to the times of their parents, they would still grumble even then.”
Sermon 346C, 1

APRIL 14 – SAINT VALERIAN
“Keep an eye out for good people to imitate: be good yourselves, and you’ll find them. But if you start being bad, you’ll begin to believe that they’re all bad; and it’s not true, you’re deceiving yourselves.”
Sermon 260D, 2

APRIL 13 – SAINT MARTIN
“Just think, brothers and sisters, what it meant for men to be sent throughout the wide world, to preach that a dead man had risen again and ascended into heaven; and for preaching this to suffer everything a raving, raging world could inflict: loss of goods, exile, chains, tortures, flames, wild beasts, crosses, painful deaths. All this for heaven knows what?”
Sermon 311, 2

APRIL 12 – SAINT JULIUS
“The life we are going to have in heaven will be one of perpetual quiet, everlasting happiness, unfailing bliss, without disturbance, sadness or death. Only those who experience it can know what such a life will be like and only those who believe it now will be able to experience it.”
Sermon 259, 1

APRIL 11 – SAINT STANISLAUS
“The fullness of faith is to believe that Christ is both man and God. (Thomas) was offered the scars of his Savior to touch and when he touched them he exclaimed ‘My Lord and my God!’ He touched the man, he recognized God.”
            Sermon 258, 3

APRIL 10 – SAINT EZECHIEL
“Christ made himself an example of the life we live now by his labors, his temptations, his suffering, and his death. In his resurrection he demonstrates the life we will live after death. Without him all that we would have known about human life is that we are born and we die. We would not have known that anyone could rise from the dead and live forever.”
Commentary on Psalm 60, 4