April 23rd
St Adalbert (956-997), Bishop, Martyr; Bohemia; Feast day April 23rd
"It is an easy thing to wear the mitre and a cross; but it is a most dreadful circumstance to have an account to give of a bishopric to the Judge of the living and the dead."
St Gregory the Great (540-604), Confessor, Pope, Doctor of the Church; Rome, Italy; Feast day March 12th
"By the other virtues we give to God what belongs to us; by obedience we give Him ourselves."
St Coletta (1380-1447), Virgin; Picardy, France; Feast day March 6th
"The renunciation of self-will is more meritorious than the sacrifice of all the riches of the world."
Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Monday, April 22, 2013
April 22nd
St Tharba (d. 341), Martyr; Persia; Feast day April 22nd
"Most impudent of men, how could you again entertain such a dishonest thought? For me courageously to die is to live; but life, purchased by baseness, is worse than any death."
St Epipodius (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd
"You, after having defiled yourselves with pleasures like brute beasts, find nothing at last but a sorrowful death; whereas we, when you destroy us, enter into eternal life."
"I confess that Jesus Christ is God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit. It is but reasonable that I should resign my soul to Him who has created me and redeemed me. This is not losing my life, but changing it into a better."
St Alexander (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd
"The God Whom I adore, and Who alone is the Almighty and Eternal God, I trust will give me grace to confess Him to my last breath, as the guardian of my faith and resolution."
St Tharba (d. 341), Martyr; Persia; Feast day April 22nd
"Most impudent of men, how could you again entertain such a dishonest thought? For me courageously to die is to live; but life, purchased by baseness, is worse than any death."
St Epipodius (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd
"You, after having defiled yourselves with pleasures like brute beasts, find nothing at last but a sorrowful death; whereas we, when you destroy us, enter into eternal life."
"I confess that Jesus Christ is God, together with the Father and the Holy Spirit. It is but reasonable that I should resign my soul to Him who has created me and redeemed me. This is not losing my life, but changing it into a better."
St Alexander (d. 177), Martyr; Lyon, France; Feast day April 22nd
"The God Whom I adore, and Who alone is the Almighty and Eternal God, I trust will give me grace to confess Him to my last breath, as the guardian of my faith and resolution."
Sunday, April 21, 2013
April 21st
St Anselm (1033-1109), Confessor, Bishop; Aosta, Burgundy; Feast day April 21st
"Redeemer, my good Jesus, do not despise the prayers of one who has sinned against You, but strengthen the efforts of a weakling that loves You.
"Shake my heart out of its indolence, Lord, and in the ardour of Your love bring me to the everlasting sight of Your glory where with the Father and the Holy Spirit, You live and reign, God, for ever. Amen."
"Nor do I seek to understand that I may believe, but I believe that I may understand. For this, too, I believe, that, unless I first believe, I shall not understand."
St Thomas Aquinas (1225-1274), Confessor, Doctor of the Church; Roccasecca, Italy; Feast day March 7th
"The understanding can never be so filled that it will not desire to grasp more while there remains more to be learned; and the will can never love and relish so much good that it will not desire to possess more, if more be possible. Consequently these two powers will never know rest until thy have attained a universal object containing all good, which, once known and loved, leaves no other truth to be known, no other good to be desired. Hence no created thing, were it the whole universe, can satisfy man's heart. God alone, for whom he was created, can do this."
Saturday, April 20, 2013
April 20th
Ven. Louis of Granada (1505-1588), Confessor; Granada, Spain
"Nor will these offenses remain unpunished, for God's justice, which protects His mercy, cannot permit your sinful abuse of it to remain unavenged. This is not a new pretext; the world has long made use of it. In ancient times it distinguished the false from the true prophets. While the latter announced to the people, in God's name, the justice with which He would punish their iniquities, the former, speaking in their own name, promised them mercy which was but a false peace and security. You say God's mercy is great; but if you presume upon it you show that you have never studied the greatness of His justice...
"But the strongest proof of the rigor of God's justice was the satisfaction required for sin, which was nothing less than the death of His only-begotten Son. Think of the Price of man's Redemption, and you will begin to realize what sin is and how the justice of God regards it. Think, too, of the eternity of Hell, and judge of the rigor of that justice which inflicts such punishment. This justice terrifies you, but it is no less certain than the mercy in which you trust."
Padre Pio (1887-1968), Confessor, Stigmatic; Pietrelcina, Italy; Feast day September 23rd
"Do you not see our Lady always beside the tabernacle?"
Ven. Louis of Granada (1505-1588), Confessor; Granada, Spain
"Nor will these offenses remain unpunished, for God's justice, which protects His mercy, cannot permit your sinful abuse of it to remain unavenged. This is not a new pretext; the world has long made use of it. In ancient times it distinguished the false from the true prophets. While the latter announced to the people, in God's name, the justice with which He would punish their iniquities, the former, speaking in their own name, promised them mercy which was but a false peace and security. You say God's mercy is great; but if you presume upon it you show that you have never studied the greatness of His justice...
"But the strongest proof of the rigor of God's justice was the satisfaction required for sin, which was nothing less than the death of His only-begotten Son. Think of the Price of man's Redemption, and you will begin to realize what sin is and how the justice of God regards it. Think, too, of the eternity of Hell, and judge of the rigor of that justice which inflicts such punishment. This justice terrifies you, but it is no less certain than the mercy in which you trust."
Padre Pio (1887-1968), Confessor, Stigmatic; Pietrelcina, Italy; Feast day September 23rd
"Do you not see our Lady always beside the tabernacle?"
Friday, April 19, 2013
April 19th
St Elphage (AD 1012), Bishop, Martyr; Derherste, England; Feast day April 19th
"O good Shepherd! O incomparable Shepherd! look with compassion on the children of thy church, which I, dying, recommend to thee."
St Augustine (354-430), Confessor, Bishop, Father of the Church; Thagaste, Algeria; Feast day August 28th
"I was plunged in iniquity, and Thy anger was aroused against me, but I knew it not. I was deaf to the noise which the chains of my sins made. But this ignorance, this deafness, were the punishments of my pride."
Padre Pio (1887-1968), Confessor, Stigmatic; Pietrelcina, Italy; Feast day September 23rd
"Suffering, no matter how difficult it may be, when compared to the good that is accomplished, makes every pain a joy for the soul."
St Elphage (AD 1012), Bishop, Martyr; Derherste, England; Feast day April 19th
"O good Shepherd! O incomparable Shepherd! look with compassion on the children of thy church, which I, dying, recommend to thee."
St Augustine (354-430), Confessor, Bishop, Father of the Church; Thagaste, Algeria; Feast day August 28th
"I was plunged in iniquity, and Thy anger was aroused against me, but I knew it not. I was deaf to the noise which the chains of my sins made. But this ignorance, this deafness, were the punishments of my pride."
Padre Pio (1887-1968), Confessor, Stigmatic; Pietrelcina, Italy; Feast day September 23rd
"Suffering, no matter how difficult it may be, when compared to the good that is accomplished, makes every pain a joy for the soul."
Thursday, April 18, 2013
April 18th
St Apollonius the Apologist (d. 185), Martyr; Rome, Italy; Feast day April 18th
"There is waiting for me something better: eternal life, given to the person who has lived well on earth."
Bl Marie-Anne Blondin (1809-1890), Virgin, Foundress; Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada; Feast day April 18th
"As for me, my Lord, I bless Divine Providence a thousand times for the maternal care she shows me in making me walk the way of tribulations and crosses."
"May Holy Eucharist and perfect abandonment to God's Will be your heaven on earth."
"There is more happiness in forgiving than in revenge."
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), Confessor; Kempen, Germany
"Without any delay You forgave Mary Magdalen's many sins, as she wept copious tears at Your feet. And Peter, after he had three times denied You and had cried bitterly, You again took into Your fellowship. In Your mercy You restored to health those afflicted with various diseases and because of Your abundant love You freed those held captive by their serious sins. This is clear in the case of the adulteress, whom You snatched from the clutches of her accusers and delivered from being stoned.
O lovable Jesus, my mercy and my refuge, who protect and deliver me from the wrath of my enemies, be merciful to me and let not my soul perish among the ungodly, for it was precisely in order to redeem my soul that You voluntarily suffered Your crucifixion.
St Apollonius the Apologist (d. 185), Martyr; Rome, Italy; Feast day April 18th
"There is waiting for me something better: eternal life, given to the person who has lived well on earth."
Bl Marie-Anne Blondin (1809-1890), Virgin, Foundress; Terrebonne, Quebec, Canada; Feast day April 18th
"As for me, my Lord, I bless Divine Providence a thousand times for the maternal care she shows me in making me walk the way of tribulations and crosses."
"May Holy Eucharist and perfect abandonment to God's Will be your heaven on earth."
"There is more happiness in forgiving than in revenge."
Thomas a Kempis (1380-1471), Confessor; Kempen, Germany
"Without any delay You forgave Mary Magdalen's many sins, as she wept copious tears at Your feet. And Peter, after he had three times denied You and had cried bitterly, You again took into Your fellowship. In Your mercy You restored to health those afflicted with various diseases and because of Your abundant love You freed those held captive by their serious sins. This is clear in the case of the adulteress, whom You snatched from the clutches of her accusers and delivered from being stoned.
O lovable Jesus, my mercy and my refuge, who protect and deliver me from the wrath of my enemies, be merciful to me and let not my soul perish among the ungodly, for it was precisely in order to redeem my soul that You voluntarily suffered Your crucifixion.
Wednesday, April 17, 2013
April 17th
St Stephen Harding (d. 1134), Abbot, Confessor; Dorset, England; Feast day April 17th
"I assure you that I go to God in fear and trembling. If my baseness should be found to have ever done any good, even in this I fear, lest I should not have preserved that grace with the humility and care I ought."
St Simeon (AD 341); Bishop, Martyr; Persia; Feast day April 17th
"I would not adore you, O king; and you far excel the sun, being endued with reason. We Christians have no Lord but Christ, who was crucified."
"Hear me, O Jesus, though most undeserving and unworthy, grant that I may drink this cup on this day, and at the hour of Your passion. May all know that Simeon was obedient to his Lord and was sacrificed with Him."
St Augustine (354-430), Confessor, Bishop, Father of the Church; Thagaste, Algeria; Feast day August 28th
"Men go to Hell through hope, as well as through despair: through a presumptuous hope during life, and through despair at the hour of death."
St Stephen Harding (d. 1134), Abbot, Confessor; Dorset, England; Feast day April 17th
"I assure you that I go to God in fear and trembling. If my baseness should be found to have ever done any good, even in this I fear, lest I should not have preserved that grace with the humility and care I ought."
St Simeon (AD 341); Bishop, Martyr; Persia; Feast day April 17th
"I would not adore you, O king; and you far excel the sun, being endued with reason. We Christians have no Lord but Christ, who was crucified."
"Hear me, O Jesus, though most undeserving and unworthy, grant that I may drink this cup on this day, and at the hour of Your passion. May all know that Simeon was obedient to his Lord and was sacrificed with Him."
St Augustine (354-430), Confessor, Bishop, Father of the Church; Thagaste, Algeria; Feast day August 28th
"Men go to Hell through hope, as well as through despair: through a presumptuous hope during life, and through despair at the hour of death."
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