May 20th
St Bernadine of Siena (1380-1444), Priest, Confessor; Massa, Italy; Feast day May 20th

“In all your actions seek in the first place the kingdom of God and his glory; direct all you do purely to his honour; persevere in brotherly charity, and practice first all that you desire to teach others. By this means the Holy Ghost will be your master, and will give you such wisdom and such a tongue that no adversary will be able to stand against you.”

St Peter of Alcantara (1499-1562), Priest, Confessor; Alcantara, Spain; Feast day October 19th

"Think of the wisdom of this world, its glory and the grandeur of its aims; yet at the end, like life itself, does not this glory also vanish?  What is more wretched than to win with so much labor what one can but so briefly enjoy?  However far-reaching your knowledge, it is yet as nothing; but if you exercise yourself in the love of God, quickly will you come to see Him, and seeing Him, to see all."