May 18th

St Gregory the Great (540-604), Confessor, Pope, Doctor of the Church; Rome, Italy; Feast day March 12th

"It is true that some saints have been guided directly by God, but such examples are rather to be admired than imitated, for thinking ourselves above the guidance of men, we might easily be led into error."

St Jerome (347-420), Priest, Confessor, Doctor of the Church; Dalmatia; Feast day September 30th

"Truly, when we consider the frailty of our flesh and how at every point and moment of time we increase and decrease, without ever remaining in the same state, and how that which at this very instant forms the subject of our discourse, of our schemes and meditations, is to such an extent cut off from our life, we shall not hesitate to speak of our flesh as a little grass and all its glory as the flower of the field."