Category Archives: today

JUNE 4 – BLESSED JAMES OF VITERBO, O.S.A.
“God the Holy Spirit, who comes from God, when he enters into people, draws them to the love of God and neighbor. He is love itself.”
Sermon 225, 4

JUNE 3 – SAINT CHARLES LWANGA & COMP

“God made both the rich and the poor… Through the person who has, helps the
one who needs; and through the person who does not have, he tests the one
who has.”

            Sermon 35, 7

JUNE 2 – SAINTS MARCELLINUS & PETER
“Lord, my God, I am helpless and poor, but you are generous to all who call upon you, and you take complete care of us. Guard my lips, both those of my body and those of my mind, from any rashness and from any lie.”
            Confessions 11, 2

JUNE 1 – SAINT JUSTIN
“Be a protecting God for me. I will not be saved unless it is in you. Unless you were my rest, my sickness would not be healed. Lift me up from the ground. Let me lie on you so that I may arise in a fortified place.”
             On Psalm 70, 5

MAY 31 – VISITATION OF MARY
“Let our beautiful God, the Word with God, come to us that we may gaze upon Him with the eyes of our minds. He was beautiful in the womb of the Virgin where in taking on our humanity, He nonetheless did not lose His divinity.”
On Psalm 44, 3

MAY 30 – SAINT FERNANDO
“It is a height out of proportion to our state to leave God to whom the soul should cling as its basis and to become in some way our own basis. This is what happens when the soul is too pleased with itself.”
City of God 14, 4

MAY 29 – SAINT MAXIMINIAN
“Lord, you perfected my love so that I might surmount the dark entanglements of this world. Direct my desire toward the heavenly home, so that I may be enriched with every good thing.”
On Psalm 17, 34

MAY 28 – SAINT EMILIO
“’Unless the Lord builds the house, the builders labor in vain.’ We speak from without; He builds from within. It is he who builds, counsels, inspires fear, opens your minds and directs them to faith.”
On Psalm 126, 1

MAY 27 – SAINT AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY
“Let me know you, my Father, let me know you as I too am known. Enter my soul, you who are its strength, and make it what you want, so that you may have and possess it without stain or wrinkle.”
Confessions 10, 1

MAY 26 – SAINT PHILIP NERI
“It was you, O Lord, who created the heavens and earth. They are beautiful because you are beautiful. They are good because you are good. They have come to be because you are.”
Confessions 11, 4