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January 11 – SAINT EUGENE
Don’t let Satan creep up on you, saying what he customarily says: ‘Enjoy yourself in God’s creation. Why did he make those things if not for you to enjoy them?’ And they get drunk, and they ruin themselves, and they forget their creator. As long as they use created things not temperately by inordinately, the creator is disdained. Of such persons the Apostle says, ‘They adored and served the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever.’ God doesn’t forbid you to love those things, but you must not love them in expectation of blessedness. Rather, you must favor and praise them in such a way that you love the creator.
On the First Letter of John 2,11

January 10 – SAINT ALDO
Who are the ones that feed themselves? Those about whom the apostle says, ‘For all see their own advantage, not that of Jesus Christ’ (Phil. 2,21). … So since the sole reason people are put in charge is to consider the interests of those they are in charge of, and not at all to attend to their own advantage but only that of those they are in service of – anyone put in charge who just enjoys being in control and seeks his own honor and looks to his own convenience is feeding himself, not the sheep.
Sermon 46, 2

January 9 – SAINT JULIAN
We already know the head and the body. He is the head and we the body. When we hear His voice we must understand it as coming from the head and the body, because the whole suffered. We also suffered in him and, what we suffer. He suffers in us. If a man’s head suffers, can we say that the hands suffer not? Or, if the hands suffer, can it be said that the head suffers not?
Exposition on the Psalms 62,2

January 8 – SAINT SEVERINO
“When I am frightened by what I am for you, then I am consoled by what I am with you. For you I am the bishop, with you I am a Christian. The first is an office, the second a grace; the first a danger, the second salvation.”
Sermon 340, 1

January 7 – SAINT RAYMOND OF PENYAFORT
Keep always in mind that we must love God and our neighbor: Love God with your whole heart, your whole soul, and your whole mind, and your neighbor as yourself. These two commandments must be always in your thoughts and in your hearts, treasured, acted on, fulfilled. Love of God is the first to be commanded, but love of neighbor is the first to be put into practice. In giving two commandments of love Christ would not commend to you first your neighbor and then God but first God and then your neighbor … By loving your neighbor you prepare your eye to see God.”
Sermon 17

January 6 – THE EPIPHANY OF THE LORD
To us, too, the heavens have declared the glory of God; we, too, have been led to worship Christ by the truth blazing from the Gospel, as by a star from the sky. We, too, have received with ears of faith a prophecy that was famous in the Jewish nation, like a standing indictment of the Jews for not accompanying us. We, too, by acknowledging and praising Christ, as both king and priest and the one who died for us, have, as it were, honored him with gold and frankincense and myrrh. It only remains for us to spread the good news about him, by pursuing a new way, not returning by the way we came.
Sermon 202

January 5 – SAINT JOHN NEUMANN
The Lord Jesus wished to be a man for our sakes. Don’t hold this kindness cheap; Wisdom is lying there on the earth. In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. O food and bread of the angels! The angels take their fill of you, they are content with you, and they don’t grow tired of you; they derive their life from you, their wise judgment from you, their bliss from you. And where are you for my sake? In a cramped and crowded hostelry, in rags, in a manger.
Sermon 196, 3

January 4 – SAINT ELIZABETH ANN SETON
By loving other people and caring for them you make progress on your journey. Where are you traveling if not to the Lord God, to him whom we should love with our whole heart, our whole soul, or our whole mind? We have not yet reached his presence, but we have our neighbor at our side. Support, then, this companion of your pilgrimage if you want to come into the presence of the one with whom you desire to remain forever.”
Homily on the Gospel of John, 17

January 3 – SAINT FULGENTIUS
Having come to know our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, who for our consolation was laid in a cramped and crowded lodging house, and now for our exaltation is seated in heaven; let us proclaim him in this land, in this region of our flesh, by not going back the way we came, nor seeking to follow in the footsteps of our former manner of life. That, after all, is the meaning of those Magi not going back the way they came. Change of way means change of life.
Sermon 202, 4