Category Archives: today

JULY 4 – BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI
 “The love of truth seeks out holy leisure, while the compelling force of love takes on necessary activity.”
            City of God 19, 19
 

JULY 3 – SAINT THOMAS, THE APOSTLE
 “Directly through the man Christ you go to the God Christ. The Word that was far from you became man in your midst.”
            Sermon 261, 7

JULY 2 – SAINT URBAN

 “We were sick and could not move. And so the Physician came to the
patient; the way was prepared for the wanderers. Let us be saved by him;
let us walk through him.”

            On 1 John 10, 1

JULY 1 – SAINT ANTON
“Your whole humility consists in knowing yourself. Pride does its own will; humility does the will of God.
            On John 25, 16

JUNE 30 – MARTYRS OF ROME
 “It is not by harshness or by severity, or by overbearing methods, that social evils are removed. It is by education rather than by formal commands, by persuasion rather than by threats.”
            Letter 22, 5

JUNE 29 – SAINTS PETER AND PAUL
 “If you praise the works of God, then you will also have to praise yourself, for you too are a work of God. Here is how you can praise yourself yet not be proud. Praise not yourself but God in you.”
            On Psalm 144, 7

JUNE 28 – SAINT IRENAEUS
 “Christ as God is the homeland where we are going. Christ as man is the way we must travel.”
            On Christian Doctrine 1, 34

JUNE 27 – SAINT CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA
 “You will light my lamp, Lord my God. I stand in the darkness of my sins, but my shadows will be dispelled by the beam of your wisdom and your face will shine upon me.”
            On Psalm 66, 4

JUNE 26 – SAINT RODOLFO
“As a lamp is not lighted by itself, so the human soul does not give light to itself but calls out to God: ‘You indeed, O Lord, give light to my lamp.’”
            On Psalm 110, 2

JUNE 25 – SAINT WILLIAM
“Love is the only sign that distinguishes the children of God from the children of the devil.”
            Sermon on 1 John 5,7