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APRIL 26 – OUR MOTHER OF GOOD COUNSEL
“Did the Virgin Mary, who believed by faith and conceived by faith, who was the chosen one from whom our Savior was born among men, who was created in her – did she not do the will of the Father? Indeed, the blessed Mary certainly did the Father’s will, and so it was for her a greater thing to have been Christ’s disciple than to have been his mother, and she was more blessed in her discipleship than in her motherhood. Hers was the happiness of first bearing in her womb him whom she would obey as her master.”
Sermon 25

APRIL 25 – SAINT MARK
“Just as Caesar seeks his image in your coin, so God seeks his image in your character. Give back to Caesar, he says, what belongs to Caesar. What does Caesar look for from you? His image. What does God look for from you? His image. But Caesar’s image is on a coin, God’s image is in you.”
Sermon 113A, 8

APRIL 24 – SAINT FEDELIS
“Nobody should be afraid of spending money on the poor. Nobody should imagine that the one who receives it is the one whose outstretched hand he sees. The one who receives it is the one who ordered you to give it.”
Sermon 86, 3

APRIL 23 – SAINT GEORGE
“Now God made you, O man and woman, to his image. Do you think he would give you the wherewithal to see the sunlight which he made, and not give you the wherewithal to see the one who made you, considering that he made you to his own image? Of course, he gave this too; he gave you both capacities.”
Sermon 88, 6-7

APRIL 22 – SAINT LEONIDA
“The best of doctors has begun to cure you, and for him no disease is uncurable. Don’t be afraid for your past wickedness, however frightful, however unbelievable the things you have perhaps committed. They are grave diseases, but the doctor has mastered them. So, don’t worry about past sins; in one moment of the sacrament they will be forgiven, and absolutely all of them will be totally forgiven.”
Sermon 97A, 2

APRIL 21 – SAINT ANSELM
“There are things that even the poor can do for each other; they can lend their feet to the lame, the use of their eyes to guide the blind. Others can visit the sick, others bury the dead. Such things are available for everybody, so that it would really be extremely difficult to find anyone who cannot do something for someone else.”
Sermon 91, 9

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