February 6th
St Amandus (d. 675), Bishop, Confessor; Nantes, France

When his father threatened disinheritance for his entering the monastery, he replied, "Christ is my only inheritance."

St Therese of Lisieux (1873-1897), Virgin, Doctor of the Church; Lisieux, France

"'Give me a lever and a fulcrum,' said the man of science, 'and I'll shift the world.'  Archimedes wasn't talking to God, so his request wasn't granted; and in any case he was only thinking of the material world.  But the saints really have enjoyed the privilege he asked for; the fulcrum God told them to use was Himself, nothing less than Himself, and the lever was prayer.  Only it must be the kind of prayer that sets the heart all on fire with love; that's how the saints shift the world in our own day, and that's how they'll do it to the end of time."