April 21st

St Anselm (1033-1109), Confessor, Bishop; Aosta, Burgundy; Feast day April 21st

"Redeemer, my good Jesus, do not despise the prayers of one who has sinned against You, but strengthen the efforts of a weakling that loves You.

"Shake my heart out of its indolence, Lord, and in the ardour of Your love bring me to the everlasting sight of Your glory where with the Father and the Holy Spirit, You live and reign, God, for ever.  Amen."

"Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand.  For this, too, I believe, that, unless I first believe, I shall not understand."

St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Confessor, Doctor of the Church; Roccasecca, Italy; Feast day March 7th

"The understanding can never be so filled that it will not desire to grasp more while there remains more to be learned; and the will can never love and relish so  much good that it will not desire to possess more, if more be possible.  Consequently these two powers will never know rest until thy have attained a universal object containing all good, which, once known and loved, leaves no other truth to be known, no other good to be desired.  Hence no created thing, were it the whole universe, can satisfy man's heart.  God alone, for whom he was created, can do this."