You are the light of the world – Saint Chromatius, bishop
If we fail to live in the light, we shall, to our condemnation and that of others, be veiling over and obscuring by our infidelity the light men so desperately…
I wish you to please God, and not men – Saint Ignatius of Antioch, bishop and martyr
Through my prayers I have been granted the favor of seeing you, my holy brothers, face to face, as indeed I have constantly asked. I now hope to embrace you…
Mary stored up all these things in her heart – Saint Laurence Justinian, bishop
While Mary contemplated all she had come to know through reading, listening and observing, she grew in faith, increased in merits, and was more illuminated by wisdom and more consumed…
With you is the source of life – Saint Bonaventure, bishop
Take thought now, redeemed man, and consider how great and worthy is he who hangs on the cross for you. His death brings the dead to life, but at his…
The Church moves forward like the advancing dawn – Saint Gregory the Great, pope
Since the daybreak or the dawn is changed gradually from darkness into light, the Church, which comprises the elect, is fittingly styled daybreak or dawn. While she is being led…
True doctrine dispels arrogance – Saint Gregory the Great, pope
Listen, Job, to what I say and ponder all my words. The teaching of the arrogant has this characteristic: they do not know how to introduce their teaching humbly and…
The careful shepherd watches over Christ’s flock – Saint Boniface, bishop and martyr
In her voyage across the ocean of this world, the Church is like a great ship being pounded by the waves of life’s different stresses. Our duty is not to…
The reason for all disturbance is that no one finds fault with himself – Saint Dorotheus, abbot
If a person is engaged in prayer or contemplation, he can easily take a rebuke from his brother and be unmoved by it. On other occasions affection toward a brother…
O precious and wonderful banquet! – Saint Thomas Aquinas, priest
Since it was the will of God’s only-begotten Son that men should share in his divinity, he assumed our nature in order that by becoming man he might make men…