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JULY 11 – SAINT BENEDICT
“Just as Caesar seeks his image in your coin, so God seeks his image in your character. Give back to Caesar, he says, what belongs to Caesar. What does Caesar look for from you? His image. What does God look for from you? His image.”
Sermon 113A, 8
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JULY 10 – SAINT RUFINA
“When what we ask God for is something good, we should persevere in praying for it until panting with desire, we receive it. You see, that’s why God puts off our requests, to stimulate our desires.”
Sermon 154A, 5
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JULY 9 – SAINT VERONICA GIULIANI
“The only one who can deliver you from the death of the flesh is the one who died in the flesh for you.”
Sermon 76, 9
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JULY 8 – SAINTS AQUILA AND PRISCILLA
“May the one who formed us reform us, the one who created us recreate us, the one who installed us restore us to perfection.”
Sermon 301A, 2
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JULY 4 – BLESSED PIER GIORGIO FRASSATI
“The love of truth seeks out holy leisure, while the compelling force of love takes on necessary activity.”
City of God 19, 19
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JULY 1 – SAINT ANTON
“Your whole humility consists in knowing yourself. Pride does its own will; humility does the will of God.
On John 25, 16
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MAY 24 – MARY HELP OF CHRISTIANS
“Mary is holy; she is blessed. Yet the Church is better than the Virgin Mary. Why? Because Mary is a part of the Church, a holy member, an excellent member of the Body. If Mary is a part of the whole Body, it is clear that the Body is greater than its mother.”
Sermon 72A, 7
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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
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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
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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