April 28th
St Gianna Beretta Molla (1922-1962), Confessor; Magenta, Italy; Feast day April 28th

"If one were to consider how much Jesus has suffered, one would not commit the smallest sin."

Ven. Louis of Granada (1505-1588), Confessor; Granada, Spain

"Remember that Our Lord and Saviour, at His coming into this world, disdained to possess riches, which are the object of your desires.  On the contrary, He so loved poverty that He chose for His Mother not a rich and powerful queen, but a poor and humble Virgin.  He willed to be born, not in a palace, but in a bleak stable, the manger of which, covered with a little straw, was His only couch....

"Man cannot freely rise to God and the contemplation of His beauty while he is breathless in the pursuit of riches.  A heart filled with material and earthly pleasures can never know spiritual and divine joys.  No; it is impossible to unite what is false with what is true; what is spiritual with what is carnal; what is temporal with what is eternal; they can never dwell together in one heart."