Category Archives: today

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 16 – SAINT BERNADETTE
“You want to see God; the price of such a tremendous good as that is faith. Do you want to arrive, and not want to walk? Sight is possession, faith is the way to it. If you shirk the hard work of the journey, how can you expect the joy of possession?”
Sermon 359A, 3

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

APRIL 9 – SAINT WALTER
“Receive and eat the body of Christ … receive and drink the blood of Christ. In order not to be scattered and separated, eat what binds you together; in order not to seem cheap in your own estimation, drink the price that was paid for you. Just as this turns into you when you eat and drink it, so you for your part turn into the body of Christ when you live devout and obedient lives.”
Sermon 228B, 3

APRIL 8 – SAINT DENNIS
“Like always sticks to like; if you live an abandoned sort of life, only abandoned people will attach themselves to you. Start living a good life, and you’ll see how many companions surround you, what a wonderful brotherhood you can rejoice in. Finally, you can’t find anyone to imitate? Be the sort of person someone else should imitate.”
Sermon 228, 2