Category Archives: today

JUNE 3 – SAINT CHARLES LWANGA & COMP

“God made both the rich and the poor… Through the person who has, helps the
one who needs; and through the person who does not have, he tests the one
who has.”

            Sermon 35, 7

JUNE 2 – SAINTS MARCELLINUS & PETER
“Lord, my God, I am helpless and poor, but you are generous to all who call upon you, and you take complete care of us. Guard my lips, both those of my body and those of my mind, from any rashness and from any lie.”
            Confessions 11, 2

JUNE 1 – SAINT JUSTIN
“Be a protecting God for me. I will not be saved unless it is in you. Unless you were my rest, my sickness would not be healed. Lift me up from the ground. Let me lie on you so that I may arise in a fortified place.”
             On Psalm 70, 5

MAY 26 – SAINT PHILIP NERI
“It was you, O Lord, who created the heavens and earth. They are beautiful because you are beautiful. They are good because you are good. They have come to be because you are.”
Confessions 11, 4

FEBRUARY 29 – SAINT OSWALD
“All your work shall be done for the common good, with greater zeal and more dispatch than if each of you were working for yourself alone. For charity is not self-seeking, meaning that it places the common good before its own, not its own before the common good. So whenever you show greater concern for the common good than for your own, you may know that you are growing in charity.”
The Rule, V, 2

February 1 – SAINT SEVERUS
Every work that effects our union with God in a holy fellowship is a true sacrifice; every work, that is, which is referred to that final end, that ultimate good, by which we are able to be in the true sense happy. As a consequence, even that mercy by which aid is given to man is not a sacrifice unless it is done for the sake of God.
City of God, 10, 6

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