March 25th
St Dismas (1st cent.), Confessor; Palestine

"Lord, remember me when you come into Your kingdom!"

Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), Confessor; Kempen, Germany

"Such horrendous impiety to condemn an innocent person by appealing to false witnesses, to desire the death of the Author of life, to aspire to crucify Christ the King, and to curse one who is holy and just to a most shameful death!...Have mercy, O good Jesus, have mercy on me, a sinner, for my soul trusts in you."

"Nothing is sweeter than love, nothing stronger or higher or wider; nothing is more pleasant, nothing fuller, and nothing better in heaven or on earth, for love is born of God and cannot rest except in God, Who is above all created things."

St Bonaventure (1221-1274), Bishop, Doctor of the Church;  Bagnoregio, Italy; Feast day July 14th

"Pierce, O most Sweet Lord Jesus, my inmost soul with the most joyous and healthful pang of Your love, with true, serene, and most holy apostolic charity, that my soul may ever languish and melt with love and longing for You, that it may yearn for You and faint for Your courts, and long to be dissolved and to be with You."