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JULY 23 – SAINT BRIDGET
“What at the present moment are the evils of humanity? Error and weakness. Either you don’t know what you should do or, if you do know, you discover that you are too weak to do it. Such confusion and weakness is the root of every evil thing that humans do.”
Sermon 182, 6
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JULY 22 – SAINT MARY MAGDALENE
“I longed for the chance to devote myself wholly to you, O God, but I was held back, bound not with the iron chains of some foreign abductor but by the bonds of my own iron will.”
Confessions 8.5
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JULY 20 – SAINT COLUMBA
“Essentially, what is the way through which we run? Christ said: ‘I am the Way.’ What is the homeland to which we are running? Christ said: ‘I am the Truth.’ You run through him, you run to him, and you rest in him.”
Sermon on 1 John 10, 1
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JULY 19 – SAINT MACRINA
“Lord, we are your little flock; we belong to you. Spread your wings that we may take refuge under them. Be our glory, let us be loved for your sake, and let your word be feared in our midst.”
Confessions 10, 36
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JULY 18 – SAINT FREDERICK
“O Lord, hear me and turn your face to me. See me and pity me and heal me. In your eyes I have become an enigma to myself, and that is my infirmity.”
Confessions 10, 33
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JULY 17 – BLESSED MADELINE ALBRICI, O.S.A.
“Enter into your conscience and examine it. If your heart does not accuse you that you act out of vainglory, it is well to be without fear. Fear only to act for the purpose of being praised.”
Sermon on 1 John 8, 9
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JULY 16 – OUR LADY OF MOUNT CARMEL
“The mother to whom His infancy was subject, He ruled with His power; and to her at whose breasts He nursed, He gave the nourishment of truth.”
Sermon 184, 3
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JULY 15 – SAINT BONAVENTURE
“There are two things we should ask for with calm assurance: in this world a good life; in the world to come eternal life. About everything else, we don’t know whether it will be good for us.”
Sermon 154A, 6
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JULY 14 – SAINT CAMILLUS DE LELLIS
“Even when we keep God’s commandments, it is not something we do in order to make God love us, for unless he loved us first we should not be able to keep them. It is the gift of his grace, a grace which is accessible to the humble of heart, but beyond the reach of the proud.”
On John 82, 4
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JULY 12 – SAINT JOHN GUALBERT
“As love grows stronger, we feel more secure, and when our feeling of security is complete, fear vanishes, since, as the apostle John declares: Perfect love casts out fear.”
Sermon 350A, 2