June 26th
St Francis de Sales (1567-1622), Bishop, Confessor, Founder, Doctor of the Church; Savoy, France; Feast day January 29th

"When we remember that Jesus Christ, true God, has loved us to such an excess as to suffer death, and the death of the cross, for us, our hearts are, as it were, put in a wine-press, and suffer violence, until love be extorted from them, but a violence which, the stronger it is, becomes the more delightful."

St Augustine (354-430), Bishop, Confessor, Doctor of the Church; Thagaste, Algeria; Feast day August 28th 

"My Lord, what ever I behold on the earth, or above the earth, all speak to me, and exhort me to love You; because all assure me that You have made them for the love of me."

St Leonard (1676-1751), Priest, Confessor; Port Maurizio, Italy; Feast day November 27th

"If every morning for one half-hour the sky were to send us a shower of gold, would you not, dear reader, find time to gather in some of it.  Well, each day there falls a shower of supernatural gold, not from the clouds, but from the altars of Holy Church.  This golden shower is increase of grace, forgiveness of sin, remission of punishment and fellowship in the merits of Christ."