May 5th
St Pius V (1504-1572), Pope, Confessor; Bosco Morengo, Piedmont, Italy; Feast day May 5th

"You are the salt of the earth!  You are the light of the world!  See to it that the people are edified by your example, by the purity of your lives, by the moderation of your conduct, and the brilliance of your holiness!  God does not ask of you mere ordinary virtue.  he demands downright perfection!"

"He that reigns in the highest, to Whom has been given all power in Heaven and Earth, entrusted the government of the One, Holy, Catholic, and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is not salvation, to one man alone on the Earth, namely to Peter, the chief of the Apostles, and to Peter's successor, the Roman pontiff, in fullness of power.  This one man He set up as chief over all nations and kingdoms, to pluck up, destroy, scatter, dispose, plant and build..."

"Do not evil so that good may come!"

"In union with the perfect confidence and hope that the Holy and Blessed Virgin placed in Thee, do I hope, O Lord."

"Dominic looked to that simple way of praying and beseeching God, accessible to all and wholly pious, which is called the Rosary, or Psalter of the Blessed Virgin Mary, in which the same most Blessed Virgin is venerated by the angelic greeting repeated one hundred and fifty times, that is, according to the number of the Davidic Psalter, and by the Lord's Prayer with each decade.  Interposed with these prayers are certain meditations showing forth the entire life of Our Lord Jesus Christ, thus completing the method of prayer devised by the Fathers of the Holy Roman Church...Christ's faithful, inflamed by these prayers, began immediately to be changed into new men.  The darkness of heresy began to be dispelled, and the light of the Catholic Faith to be revealed...Following the example of our predecessors, seeing that the Church militant, which God has placed in our hands, in these our times is tossed this way and that by so many heresies, and is grievously troubled and afflicted by so many wars, and by the depraved morals of men, we also raise our eyes, weeping but full of hope, unto that same mountain, whence every aid comes forth, and we encourage and admonish each member of Christ's faithful to do likewise in the Lord."

"O Lord, increase my sufferings and my patience!"

"It shall be unlawful henceforth and forever throughout the Christian world to sing or to read Masses according to any formula other than that of this Missal published by Us...which shall have the farce of law in perpetuity, We order and enjoin under pain of Our displeasure that nothing be added to Our newly published Missal, nothing omitted therefrom, and noting whatsoever altered therein."