Category Archives: today

APRIL 23 – SAINT GEORGE
“Now God made you, O man and woman, to his image. Do you think he would give you the wherewithal to see the sunlight which he made, and not give you the wherewithal to see the one who made you, considering that he made you to his own image? Of course, he gave this too; he gave you both capacities.”
Sermon 88, 6-7

APRIL 22 – SAINT LEONIDA
“The best of doctors has begun to cure you, and for him no disease is uncurable. Don’t be afraid for your past wickedness, however frightful, however unbelievable the things you have perhaps committed. They are grave diseases, but the doctor has mastered them. So, don’t worry about past sins; in one moment of the sacrament they will be forgiven, and absolutely all of them will be totally forgiven.”
Sermon 97A, 2

APRIL 21 – SAINT ANSELM
“There are things that even the poor can do for each other; they can lend their feet to the lame, the use of their eyes to guide the blind. Others can visit the sick, others bury the dead. Such things are available for everybody, so that it would really be extremely difficult to find anyone who cannot do something for someone else.”
Sermon 91, 9

APRIL 16 – SAINT BERNADETTE
“You want to see God; the price of such a tremendous good as that is faith. Do you want to arrive, and not want to walk? Sight is possession, faith is the way to it. If you shirk the hard work of the journey, how can you expect the joy of possession?”
Sermon 359A, 3

APRIL 15 – SAINT HANNIBAL
“You’ll find people grumbling about their times and saying that the times of our parents were good. Suppose, though, they could be whisked back to the times of their parents, they would still grumble even then.”
Sermon 346C, 1

APRIL 14 – SAINT VALERIAN
“Keep an eye out for good people to imitate: be good yourselves, and you’ll find them. But if you start being bad, you’ll begin to believe that they’re all bad; and it’s not true, you’re deceiving yourselves.”
Sermon 260D, 2

APRIL 13 – SAINT MARTIN
“Just think, brothers and sisters, what it meant for men to be sent throughout the wide world, to preach that a dead man had risen again and ascended into heaven; and for preaching this to suffer everything a raving, raging world could inflict: loss of goods, exile, chains, tortures, flames, wild beasts, crosses, painful deaths. All this for heaven knows what?”
Sermon 311, 2

APRIL 12 – SAINT JULIUS
“The life we are going to have in heaven will be one of perpetual quiet, everlasting happiness, unfailing bliss, without disturbance, sadness or death. Only those who experience it can know what such a life will be like and only those who believe it now will be able to experience it.”
Sermon 259, 1

MARCH 31 – SAINT BENJAMIN
“Men go abroad to wonder at the heights of mountains, at the huge waves of the sea, at the long courses of the rivers, at the vast compass of the ocean, at the circular motion of the stars, and they pass by themselves without wondering.”
Confessions X, 8

MARCH 30 – SAINT IRENE
“Late have I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Late have I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I outside myself, and there I searched for you.”
Confessions X, 27