June 19
“I don’t agree with the big way of doing things. To us, what matters is an individual. To get to love the person, we must come in close contact with him. If we must wait till we get the numbers, then we will be lost in the numbers, and we will never be able to show that love and respect for the person.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
June 18
“Living the faith also means transmitting it to others. To do so, we have to walk alongside them; and on the way we have to listen to the difficulties they raise about the Christian message, and show them that we understand them so that they feel understood, enlightened, and oriented by our conversation. And thus, walking at their side, we will communicate the Gospel, the living word of God, to them with affection and warmth.
June 17
“God wants you to be in the world, but so different from the world that you will change it. Get cracking.”
-Mother Angelica
June 16
“The Church will have to initiate everyone—priests, religious and laity—into this ‘art of accompaniment’ which teaches us to remove our sandals before the sacred ground of the other (cf. Ex 3:5). The pace of this accompaniment must be steady and reassuring, reflecting our closeness and our compassionate gaze which also heals, liberates and encourages growth in the Christian life.”
-Pope Francis
June 15
“God takes pleasure to see you take your little steps; and like a good father who holds his child by the hand, he will accommodate his steps to yours and will be content to go no faster than you. Why do you worry?”
-St. Francis de Sales
June 14
“We are not some casual and meaningless product of evolution. Each of us is the result of a thought of God. Each of us is willed, each of us is loved, each of us is necessary. There is nothing more beautiful than to be surprised by the Gospel, by the encounter with Christ. There is nothing more beautiful than to know Him and to speak to others of our friendship with Him.”
-Pope Benedict XVI
June 13
“The purpose of our lives is to reveal God to men. And only where God is seen does life truly begin. Only when we meet the living God in Christ do we know what life is.”
-Pope Benedict XVI
June 12
“The net of the Gospel pulls us out of the waters of death and brings us into the splendour of God’s light, into true life. It is really true: as we follow Christ in this mission to be fishers of men, we must bring men and women out of the sea that is salted with so many forms of alienation and onto the land of life into the light of God”
- Pope Benedict XVI
June 11
“The first form of witness is the very life of the missionary, of the Christian family, and of the ecclesial community, which reveal a new way of living. The missionary who, despite all his or her human limitations and defects, lives a simple life, taking Christ as the model, is a sign of God and of transcendent realities. But everyone in the Church, striving to imitate the Divine Master, can and must bear this kind of witness; in many cases it is the only possible way of being a missionary.”
-Pope St. John Paul II
June 10
"People today put more trust in witnesses than teachers, in experience than in teaching and in life and action than in theories. The witness of a Christian life is the first and irreplaceable form of mission: Christ, whose mission we continue, is the “witness” par excellence and the model of all Christian witness. The Holy Spirit accompanies the Church along her way and associates her with the witness he gives to Christ”
-Pope St. John Paul II
