Category Archives: today

JUNE 14 – SAINT ELISEO
“Do you wish to be great? Then begin from what is slightest. Do you plan to construct a high and mighty building? Then think first about the foundation of humility.”
Sermon 69, 2

JUNE 13 – SAINT ANTHONY OF PADUA
“Bad times! Troublesome times! This is what people are saying. Let our lives be good and the times will be good. For we make our own times. Such as we are, such are the times.”
Sermon 30, 8

JUNE 12 – SAINT JOHN OF SAHAGUN, O.S.A.
“Maybe we cannot convert masses of people to a good life. But let the few who do hear live well. Let the few who live well endure the many who live badly.”
Sermon 30, 8

JUNE 11 – SAINT BARNABAS
“Extend your love over the whole earth if you desire to love Christ, for Christ’s members are all over the earth. If you love but a part, you are divided.”
Sermon on 1 John 10, 7

JUNE 10 – MARY, MOTHER OF THE CHURCH
“Put to flight my foolishness, Lord, that I may know you. Show me the road I must travel that I may see you.”
Soliloquies 1, 1

JUNE 9 – SAINT EPHREM

“Do you know who the upright of heart are? They are those who wish what God
wishes. Therefore, do not try to twist God’s will to your own, but correct
your will to that of God.”

On Psalm 93, 18

JUNE 8 – SAINT METARDO
“The labor of those who love is in no way burdensome; in fact, it even gives pleasure. What matters is what is loved. When we do what we love, either we do not notice the work or the work itself is loved.” On Holy Widowhood, 21, 26
The Trinity 15, 51

JUNE 7 – SAINT ROBERT
“Give me strength to seek you, Lord, for you have already enabled me to find you and have given me hope of finding you ever more fully.”
The Trinity 15, 51

JUNE 6 – SAINT NORBERT
“When the strong winds of its desires try to take hold of you, call for help and awaken Christ sleeping in the cabin of your heart.”
Sermon 76, 9

JUNE 5 – SAINT BONIFACE
“O Sacrament of love, sign of our unity and bond of our fraternity, all who long for life have here its very source! Let them come here and believe; unite with you and live.”
On John 26, 13