April 6th
St Celestine I (d. 432); Pope, Confessor; Rome, Italy

"We are deservedly to blame if we encourage error by silence."

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

"To the worldly, virtue wears a forbidding look; to sacrifice their worldly pleasures for her would be to buy her at too dear a rate.  But when they draw near they see how lovely she is, and when they have once tasted the sweetness she possesses they cheerfully surrender all they have to win her friendship and love.  How gladly did the man in the gospel hasten to sell all he had to purchase the field which contained a treasure!

"Why, then, do Christians make so little effort to obtain this inestimable good?  If a companion assured you that a treasure lay hidden in your house, you would not fail to search for it, even though you doubted its existence.  Yet though you know, on the infallible word of God, that you can find a priceless treasure within your own breast, you do nothing to discover it.  Oh!  That you would realize its value!  Would that you knew how little it costs to obtain it, and how 'nigh is the Lord unto all them that call upon him, that call upon him in truth.'"