Walter J. Quinn, O.S.A.
1930 – 2019 (January 15) Walter James Quinn was born on August 8, 1930, in Lansdowne, Pennsylvania, one of two sons and a daughter of Walter J. Quinn and Anna Haas. He was baptized at Saint Charles Borromeo Church, Drexel Hill, PA, and attended both Saint Charles and Saint Andrew Parish Schools. He entered West […]
Fr. John Lydon, O.S.A. Honored
Pictured (l-r) Head of Civil Defense, Fr. Lydon and Mayor of Trujillo, and the regional general of the National Police. On Dec. 27th, Fr. John Lydon, O.S.A was presented the with the Medal of the City by the Mayor of Trujillo for his “contribution to the field of education and culture in the city of […]
Augustine For Today
January 15 – Saint Maurus
“Let me know you, for you are the God who knows me; let me recognize you as you have recognized me. You are the power of my soul; come into it and make it fit for yourself, so that you may have it and hold it without stain or wrinkle. This is my hope; this is why I speak as I do; this is the hope that brings me joy, when my joy is in what is to save me.”
Confessions, X, 1
Augustine For Today
January 14 – Saint Felix of Nola
“Every other vice prompts people to do evil deeds; but pride lies in ambush even for good deeds, to destroy them. What advantage is it to scatter abroad and give to the poor and become poor oneself, if the mind in its misery becomes prouder in despising riches than it was in possessing them?”
The Rule, Chapter 1
Augustine For Today
January 13 – Saomt Ilario
“This is my recommendation to you, my brothers and sisters; give earthly bread, and knock at the door of the heavenly bread; the Lord is bread. ‘I’, He said, ‘am the bread of life’. How will He give it to you, if you do not give it to the person in need? … So while He is the Lord, and the real Lord, and no need of our goods, all the same, in order that we might do something for Him, He was ready to be hungry in His poor.”
Sermon 359, 5-6
Augustine For Today
January 12 – Saint Modesto
“Do justice and you will have peace, thus justice and peace will embrace. If you do not love justice you will not have peace. These two virtues, peace and justice, love and embrace one another in such a way that whoever does justice will encounter the peace that embraces justice. They are two friends.”
On the Psalms 84, 12
The Baptism of the Lord
There was a popular movie released several years ago called Finding Nemo. One scene in it was when Nemo, a young clown fish, ends up in someone’s aquarium. As the “new fish on the block,” he had to prove himself worthy of living in the tank with the other community of fishes. To do so, during his first night, he was awakened by the other fishes and told that he had to go through the ritual that would initiate him into the group. This ritual required him to have the strength and courage to pass through a difficult part of the tank that had a strong current and forceful air bubbles. Determined to be a member of the group, he collected himself, thrust himself forward, went through the strong waters, and successfully passed the test.
Augustine For Today
January 11 – Saint Eugene
Don’t let Satan creep up on you, saying what he customarily says: ‘Enjoy yourself in God’s creation. Why did he make those things if not for you to enjoy them?’ And they get drunk, and they ruin themselves, and they forget their creator. As long as they use created things not temperately by inordinately, the creator is disdained. Of such persons the Apostle says, ‘They adored and served the creature rather than the creator, who is blessed forever.’ God doesn’t forbid you to love those things, but you must not love them in expectation of blessedness. Rather, you must favor and praise them in such a way that you love the creator.
On the First Letter of John 2,11
Augustine For Today
January 10 – Saint Aldo
Who are the ones that feed themselves? Those about whom the apostle says, ‘For all see their own advantage, not that of Jesus Christ’ (Phil. 2,21). … So since the sole reason people are put in charge is to consider the interests of those they are in charge of, and not at all to attend to their own advantage but only that of those they are in service of – anyone put in charge who just enjoys being in control and seeks his own honor and looks to his own convenience is feeding himself, not the sheep.
Sermon 46, 2
Augustine For Today
January 9 – Saint Julian
We already know the head and the body. He is the head and we the body. When we hear His voice we must understand it as coming from the head and the body, because the whole suffered. We also suffered in him and, what we suffer. He suffers in us. If a man’s head suffers, can we say that the hands suffer not? Or, if the hands suffer, can it be said that the head suffers not?
Exposition on the Psalms 62,2