Saint Quote of the Day

Saint Paul of the Cross

2012-01-28T22:54:00.000-05:00

It is very good and holy to consider the passion of our Lord, and to meditate on it, for by this sacred path we reach union with God. In this most holy school we learn true wisdom, for it was there that all the saints learned it.

-- Saint Paul of the Cross

Saint Thomas Aquinas

2012-01-27T21:51:00.000-05:00

Be assured that he who shall always walk faithfully in God's presence, always ready to give Him an account of all his actions, shall never be separated from Him by consenting to sin.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint John Baptist de la Salle

2012-01-26T23:07:00.000-05:00

Pride makes us forgetful of our eternal interests. It causes us to neglect totally the care of our soul.

-- Saint John Baptist de la Salle

Saint Teresa of Avila

2012-01-25T22:33:00.000-05:00

God, deliver me from sullen saints.

-- Saint Teresa of Avila

Saint Paul the Apostle

2012-01-25T00:03:00.000-05:00

For this gospel I was appointed a preacher and apostle and teacher, and therefore I suffer as I do. But I am not ashamed, for I know whom I have believed, and I am sure that he is able to guard until that Day what has been entrusted to me.

-- Saint Paul the Apostle from The Second Letter of Paul To Timothy 1: 11-12

Saint Francis De Sales

2012-01-23T23:30:00.000-05:00

In the royal galley of divine Love, there is no galley slave: all rowers are volunteers.

-- Saint Francis De Sales

Saint Peter Julian Eymard

2012-01-23T00:22:00.000-05:00

He loves, He hopes, He waits. If He came down on our altars on certain days only, some sinner, on being moved to repentance, might have to look for Him, and not finding Him, might have to wait. Our Lord prefers to wait Himself for the sinner for years rather than keep him waiting one instant.

-- Saint Peter Julian Eymard

Saint Vincent Pallotti

2012-01-21T21:23:00.000-05:00

Not the goods of the world, but God.

Not riches, but God.

Not honors, but God.

Not distinction, but God.

Not dignities, but God.

Not advancement, but God.

God always and in everything.

-- Saint Vincent Pallotti

Saint Agnes of Rome

2012-01-20T20:31:00.000-05:00

Christ made my soul beautiful with the jewels of grace and virtue. I belong to Him whom the angels serve.

-- Saint Agnes of Rome

Saint John Vianney

2012-01-19T22:10:00.000-05:00

I tell you that you have less to suffer in following the Cross than in serving the world and its pleasures.

-- Saint John Vianney

Saint Joseph Sebastian Pelczar

2012-01-18T22:50:00.000-05:00

Earthly ideals are fading away. I see the ideal of life in sacrifice, and the ideal of sacrifice in priesthood.

-- Saint Joseph Sebastian Pelczar as a young man

Saint Jaime Hilario Barbal

2012-01-17T22:20:00.000-05:00

To die for Christ, my young friends, is to live.

-- Saint Jaime Hilario Barbal

Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

2012-01-16T22:01:00.000-05:00

Come, Holy Spirit. Spirit of truth, you are the reward of the saints, the comforter of souls, light in the darkness, riches to the poor, treasure to lovers, food for the hungry, comfort to those who are wandering; to sum up, you are the one in whom all treasures are contained.

-- Saint Mary Magdalene de Pazzi

Pope Saint Pius X

2012-01-16T00:16:00.000-05:00

My hope is in Christ, who strengthens the weakest by His Divine help. I can do all in Him who strengthens me. His Power is infinite, and if I lean on him, it will be mine. His Wisdom is infinite, and if I look to Him for counsel, I shall not be deceived. His Goodness is infinite, and if my trust is stayed in Him, I shall not be abandoned.

-- Pope Saint Pius X

Saint Francis of Assisi

2012-01-14T23:25:00.000-05:00

Sanctify yourself and you will sanctify society.

-- Saint Francis of Assisi

Saint Thomas Aquinas

2012-01-13T22:24:00.000-05:00

Almsgiving proceeds from a merciful heart and is more useful for the one who practices it than for the one who receives it, for the man who makes a practice of almsgiving draws out a spiritual profit from his acts, whilst those who receive his alms receive only a temporal benefit.

-- Saint Thomas Aquinas

Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

2012-01-13T00:11:00.000-05:00

If you must decided between me and the child, do not hesitate: choose the child - I insist on it. Save him.

-- Saint Gianna Beretta Molla

Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

2012-01-11T20:44:00.001-05:00

To you, O Master, who loves all mankind

I hasten on rising from sleep.

By your mercy I go out to do your work

and I make my prayer to you.

Help me at all times and in all things.

Deliver me from every evil thing of this world

and from pursuit by the devil.

Save me and bring me to your eternal kingdom,

For you are my Creator,

You inspire all good thoughts in me.

In you is all my hope and to you I give glory,

now and forever.

-- Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

Saint Frances Salesia

2012-01-10T21:52:00.000-05:00

Let us establish a permanent Spring season in our heart through ‘yes’ often repeated to all of God’s permissions and wills.

-- Saint Frances Salesia

Pope Saint Pius X

2012-01-09T19:50:00.000-05:00

Whereas in the Lord's Prayer, we are bidden to ask for 'our daily bread,' the Holy Fathers of the Church all but unanimously teach that by these words must be understood, not so much that material bread which is the support of the body, as the Eucharistic bread, which ought to be our daily food.

-- Pope Saint Pius X

Saint John the Baptist

2012-01-08T23:45:00.000-05:00

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world!

-- Saint John the Baptist from the Gospel According to John 1: 29

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

2012-01-07T16:23:00.000-05:00

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Saint Vincent Ferrer

2012-01-06T18:30:00.001-05:00

Christ, the Master of humility, manifests His Truth only to the humble and hides Himself from the proud.

-- Saint Vincent Ferrer

Saint Andre Bessette

2012-01-05T21:07:00.000-05:00

When I joined this community, the superiors showed me the door, and I remained forty years.

-- Saint Andre Bessette This was in regard to Saint Andre having difficulty in being accepted into the order of the Holy Cross Brothers, and upon being accepted was given the job of doorkeeper.

Saint John Nepomucene Neumann

2012-01-04T21:39:00.000-05:00

The few [priests] we have are sadly out of proportion to the ever-increasing wants of the faithful. There are Catholics who have not been to confession for many years, and there are young people of nineteen or twenty who have nothing of Catholicity about them, saving their baptism and all this from the want of priests. The longer this need continues, the more difficult it will be to reanimate faith and the fear of God.

-- Saint John Nepomucene Neumann