Category Archives: today

JUNE 24 – BIRTH OF JOHN THE BAPTIST
 “Do not suppose that any human is the teacher of another. We can admonish by the sound of our voice; but unless there is One who teaches on the inside, the sound we make is futile.”
            Sermon on 1 John 3,12

JUNE 23 – SAINT LANFRANC
 “God will give more to those who use for others that which they have received. He will fill up and pile to the brim what he first gave.”
            On Christian Doctrine 1, 1

JUNE 22 – SAINT PAULINUS OF NOLA
“What you do with those who beg from you is what God will do with his beggar. You are filled and you are empty. Fill your empty neighbor from your fullness, so that your emptiness may be filled from God’s fullness.”
            Sermon 56, 9

JUNE 21 – SAINT LOUIS GONZAGA
“That fear by which you fear being cast into hell with the devil is not yet chaste, since it does not come from love of God but from fear of punishment. But when you fear God in the sense that you do not wish to lose him, you embrace him, and you desire to enjoy him.”
            Sermon on 1 John 9, 5

JUNE 20 – SAINT HECTOR
“Just from the fact that you try to avoid evil, you improve yourself, and you begin to desire what is good.”
            Sermon on 1 John 9, 5

JUNE 19 – SAINT ROMUALD
“Lord, my God, how great you are, and yet you make your home in the humble of heart! It is you who lift up the downtrodden, and you who are their grandeur.”
            Confessions 11, 31

JUNE 18 – SAINT GREGORY BARBARIGO
“This is the rule of love: the good that we desire for ourselves we desire for our neighbor also; and the evil that we are unwilling to undergo we wish to prevent from happening to our neighbor.”
            On True Religion 87

JUNE 17 – SAINT ADOLF
“Understand that no one is telling you, ‘Be less than you are,’ but ‘know what you are.’ Know that you are human. Know that you are a sinner. Know that it is God who frees you from blame.”
            Sermon 137, 4 

JUNE 16 – SAINT AURELIANO
“Let us leave a little room for reflection, room too for silence. Enter into yourself and leave behind all noise and confusion. Look within yourself.”
            Sermon 52, 22

JUNE 15 – SAINT VITO
“I speak not as a master but as a minister, not to pupils but to fellow pupils since I speak not to servants but to fellow servants. We all have one Master, whose school is on earth and whose seat is in heaven.”
Sermon 242, 1