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 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

APRIL 7 – SAINT JOHN BAPTIST DE LA SALLE
“Choose for yourselves the ones to imitate; those who fear God, who enter the church of God with reverence, who listen carefully to the word of God, commit it to memory, chew over it in their thoughts, carry it out in their actions; choose them for your imitation. And don’t let a little voice say to you, “And where are we to find such people?” Be such people yourselves, and you will find such people.”
Sermon 228, 2

APRIL 6 – SAINT VIRGINIA
“I beg you by what you have received to fix your eyes on the one who called you, who loved you, who went looking for you when you were lost, who enlightened you when you were found; and not to follow the ways of the los, for whom the name of “faithful” is just a mistake.”
Sermon 228, 2

APRIL 5 – SAINT VINCENT FERRER
“Wherever the burning brand is turned, the flame knows no other road, but to seek the sky. Fervent in spirit, set yourselves alight with the fire of charity; get yourselves white-hot with the praises of God and the excellence of your morals. One person’s warm, another cold; let the warm person kindle the cold; and let the one who is lacking in ardor desire an increase, pray for assistance. The Lord is always ready to give; let us choose to receive with open, expansive hearts.”
Sermon 234, 3

APRIL 4 – SAINT ISIDORE
“Everyone delights at being at the top. But the step up to it is humility. Why stretch your foot out to what is beyond you? That way, you want to fall, not climb higher. The two disciples (James and John) didn’t want to bother with this step of humility … They were after a place at the top, they didn’t see the step. The Lord, however, pointed out the step. How did he reply? Can you drink the cup which I am going to drink?”
Sermon 96, 3-4

APRIL 3 – SAINT RICHARD
“Let us not look back at what we were before Christ bought us, in case we should remain stuck on the road. Let us not look back, and at the same time, though, let us keep it in remembrance. If we look back, you see, we return to it; if we forget it, we will be ungrateful.”
Sermon 335 1,2