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Thursday, February 20, 2020

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Peter Damian, Doctor of the Church


Saint Peter Damian -- PD-Art


Do not be depressed. Do not let your weakness make you impatient. Instead, let the serenity of your spirit shine through your face. Let the joy of your mind burst forth.

Saint Peter Damian


Saint Peter Damian's patronage: Faenza, Italy; traceurs; freerunners.




Tuesday, January 16, 2018

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Anthony the Abbot (AKA Saint Anthony the Great)

Painting of Saint Anthony, a part of The Visitation with Saint Nicholas and Saint Anthony Abbot by Piero di Cosimo, c. 1480 - PD-1923


Believe me; the devil fears the vigils of pious souls, and their fastings, their voluntary poverty, their loving compassion, their humility, but most of all their ardent love of Christ our Lord. As soon as he sees the sign of the Cross, he flees in terror.

Saint Anthony the Abbot


Saint Anthony the Abbot's patronage: Amputees; animals; basket makers; basket weavers; brushmakers; butchers; cemetery workers; domestic animals; eczema; epilepsy; epileptics; ergotism (Saint Anthony's fire); erysipelas; gravediggers; hermits; hogs; monks; pigs; relief from pestilence; skin diseases; skin rashes; swine; swineherds; Pontifical Ecclesiastical Academy, Rome.




Tuesday, December 19, 2017

Saint Mark the Ascetic Quote

Saint Mark the Ascetic - PD-1923


When Scripture says, ‘He will reward every man according to his works’ (Matthew 16:27), do not imagine that works in themselves merit either hell or the Kingdom. On the contrary, Christ rewards each man according to whether his works are done with faith or without faith in Himself; and He is not a dealer bound by contract, but God our Creator and Redeemer.

Saint Mark the Ascetic



Friday, November 10, 2017

Saint Martin of Tours Quote

Saint Martin and the Beggar - PD-1923


Refusing further service as a Roman soldier: I am a soldier of Christ: combat is not permitted to me.

Saint Martin of Tours



Saint Martin of Tours' patronage: Against impoverishment; against poverty; alcoholism; beggars; Burgenland; cavalry; equestrians; France; geese; horse men; horses; hotel-keepers; innkeepers; Mainz, Germany; quartermasters; reformed alcoholics; riders; soldiers; tailors; vintners; wine growers; wine makers.



Sunday, September 24, 2017

Blessed Herman the Cripple Quote



Hail, Holy Queen, Mother of Mercy. Hail my life, my sweetness and my hope! To you do we cry, poor banished children of Eve! To you do we send up our sighs; mourning and weeping in this vale of tears! Turn, most gracious Advocate, your eyes of mercy toward me, and after this, our exile, show to us the blessed fruit of your womb, Jesus Christ! Clement, loving, sweet Virgin Mary! Amen.



Blessed Herman the Cripple the author of "Salve Regina" and "Alma Redemptoris Mater".



Friday, September 22, 2017

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina Quote

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina


Stay with me, Lord, for it is necessary to have You present so that I do not forget You. You know how easily I abandon You. Stay with me, Lord, because I am weak and I need Your strength, that I may not fall so often. Stay with me, Lord, for You are my life and without You I am without fervor. Stay with me, Lord, for You are my light and without You I am in darkness. Stay with me, Lord, to show me Your will. Stay with me, Lord, so that I hear Your voice and follow You. Stay with me, Lord, for I desire to love You very much and alway be in Your company. Stay with me, Lord, if You wish me to be faithful to You. Stay with me, Lord, as poor as my soul is I want it to be a place of consolation for You, a nest of Love. Stay with me, Jesus, for it is getting late and the day is coming to a close and life passes, death, judgment and eternity approaches. It is necessary to renew my strength, so that I will not stop along the way and for that, I need You. It is getting late and death approaches, I fear the darkness, the temptations, the dryness, the cross, the sorrows. O how I need You, my Jesus, in this night of exile! Stay with me tonight, Jesus, in life with all its dangers, I need You. Let me recognize You as Your disciples did at the breaking of the bread, so that the Eucharistic Communion be the Light which disperses the darkness, the force which sustains me, the unique joy of my heart. Stay with me, Lord, because at the hour of my death, I want to remain united to You, if not by Communion, at least by grace and love. Stay with me, Lord, for it is You alone I look for, Your Love, Your Grace, Your Will, Your Heart, Your Spirit, because I love You and ask no other reward but to love You more and more. With a firm love, I will love You with all my heart while on earth and continue to love You perfectly during all eternity. Amen.

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina from his Prayer After Holy Communion



Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina's patronage: Civil defense volunteers; Adolescents; Pietrelcina; Stress relief; Italy; Malta




Tuesday, September 12, 2017

Saint John Chrysostom Quote

Saint John Chrysostom


The love of husband and wife is the force that welds society together.

-– Saint John Chrysostom




Saint John Chrysostom's patronage: Constantinople; epilepsy; orators; preachers; speakers; education; lecturers; Istanbul, Turkey





Saturday, September 2, 2017

Pope Saint Gregory the Great Quote



If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great



Pope Saint Gregory the Great's patronage: choir boys; educators; gout; masons; music; musicians; choirs; singers; stonecutters; teachers; popes; students; scholars; against plague; against gout; against fever; England; West Indies




Monday, February 29, 2016

Saint Mark the Ascetic Quote

Saint Mark the Ascetic


Even though knowledge is true, it is still not firmly established if unaccompanied by works. For everything is established by being put into practice.


Saint Mark the Ascetic








Tuesday, May 26, 2015

Saint Vincent of Lérins Quote



I cannot sufficiently be astonished that such is the insanity of some men, such the impiety of their blinded understanding, such, finally, their lust after error, that they will not be content with the rule of faith delivered once and for all from antiquity, but must daily seek after something new, and even newer still, and are always longing to add something to religion, or to change it, or to subtract from it!

Saint Vincent of Lérins




Sunday, May 24, 2015

Saint Bede the Venerable Quote

Saint Bede the Venerable


My soul proclaims the greatness of the Lord, and my spirit rejoices in God my savior.” With these words Mary first acknowledges the special gifts she has been given. Above all other saints, she alone could truly rejoice in Jesus, her savior, for she knew that he who was the source of eternal salvation would be born in time in her body, in one person both her own son and her Lord. “For the Almighty has done great things for me, and holy is his name.” Mary attributes nothing to her own merits. She refers all her greatness to the gift of one whose essence is power and whose nature is greatness, for he fill with greatness and strength the small and the weak who believe in him.

Saint Bede the Venerable from a homily

Saint Bede the Venerable's patronage: lectors; English writers; historians; and Jarrow, England.





Wednesday, April 1, 2015

Saint Basil the Great Quote

Saint Basil the Great


When mankind was estranged from him by disobedience, God our Savior made a plan for raising us from our fall and restoring us to friendship with himself. According to this plan Christ came in the flesh, he showed us the gospel way of life, he suffered, died on the cross, was buried and rose from the dead. He did this so that we could be saved by imitation of him, and recover our original status as sons of God by adoption.

-- Saint Basil the Great


Monday, March 30, 2015

Saint John Climacus Quote

Saint John Climacus


A chaste man is completely oblivious to the difference between bodies. The rule and limit of absolute chastity is to have the same feelings regarding animate and inanimate beings, rational and irrational.

-- Saint John Climacus




Saturday, March 21, 2015

Saint Nicholas of Flüe Quote

Saint Nicholas of Flüe


My Lord and my God, take from me everything that distances me from you.
My Lord and my God, give me everything that brings me closer to you.
My Lord and my God, detach me from myself to give my all to you.

-- Saint Nicholas of Flüe from a prayer attributed to him





Thursday, March 5, 2015

Saint Mark the Ascetic Quote

Saint Mark the Ascetic


When Scripture says, 'He will reward every man according to his works' (Matthew 16:27), do not imagine that works in themselves merit either hell or the Kingdom. On the contrary, Christ rewards each man according to whether his works are done with faith or without faith in Himself; and He is not a dealer bound by contract, but God our Creator and Redeemer.

-- Saint Mark the Ascetic



Monday, February 23, 2015

Saint Gregory of Narek Quote

Saint Gregory of Narek as depicted on a 1173 manuscript


And now, compassionate God,
I pray for your mercy,
as you instructed in your own words,
Make offerings in the name of God’s salvation
and you shall be made holy,
for I want contrition not sacrifice.”
Be exalted anew in remembrance of this offering in
incense,
for everything is in you, and everything is from you.
To you glory from all.

-- Saint Gregory of Narek from "Tenets of Prayer", Prayer 4




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Friday, February 20, 2015

Saint Peter Damian Quote

Saint Peter Damian


Without fail, [the vice of sodomy] brings death to the body and destruction to the soul. It pollutes the flesh, extinguishes the light of the mind, expels the Holy Spirit from the temple of the human heart, and gives entrance to the devil, the stimulator of lust.

-- Saint Peter Damian

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Saturday, February 14, 2015

Saint Cyril Quote

Saints Cyril and Methodius


Make your people known for the unity and profession of their faith. Inspire the hearts of your people with your word and your teaching. You called us to preach the Gospel of your Christ and to encourage them to lives and works pleasing to you.

-- Saint Cyril


Wednesday, January 28, 2015

Saint Dallan Forghaill Quote

Saint Dallan Forghaill


Be Thou my vision, O Lord of my heart;
Naught be all else to me save that Thou art.
Thou my best thought by day or by night,
Waking or sleeping Thy presence my light.

Be Thou my wisdom, and Thou my true Word;
I ever with Thee and Thou with me, Lord;
Thou my great Father, I Thy true son;
Thou in me dwelling, and I with Thee one.

Be Thou my battle-shield, sword for my fight,
Be Thou my dignity, Thou my delight.
Thou my soul’s shelter, Thou my high tower.
Raise Thou me heavenward, O Power of my power.

Riches I heed not, nor man’s empty praise,
Thou mine inheritance, now and always;
Thou and Thou only, first in my heart,
High King of heaven my Treasure Thou art.

High King of heaven, my victory won,
May I reach heaven’s joys, O bright heaven’s son,
Heart of my heart, whatever befall
Still be my vision, O ruler of all.

-- Saint Dallan Forghaill




Saturday, January 17, 2015

Saint Anthony the Abbot (aka Saint Anthony the Great) Quote

Saint Anthony the Abbot (aka Saint Anthony the Great)


The days are coming when men will go mad; and, when they meet a man who has kept his senses, they will rise up against him, saying, “You are mad, because you are not like us.”

-- Saint Anthony the Abbot (aka Saint Anthony the Great)