August 29
"If we are all to be saved, we shall have to help one another and support the weak in their struggle to live a good life. When one of us does wrong, it is for the others to warn him and persuade him of his error.”
-From a Homily of the Second Century
August 28
“Today it is fashionable to talk about the poor. Unfortunately it is not fashionable to talk with them.”
-St. Teresa of Calcutta
August 26
“Take from the ‘Mother of mercy’ and ‘Consolation of the afflicted’ an example and inspiration at every moment. She will guide you to her Son and will teach you the value of every soul.”
-St. Pope John Paul II
August 25
“I am concealing Myself from you so that you can discover by yourself what you are without Me.”
-God to St. Margaret of Cortona
August 24
Feast of St. Bartholomew, Apostle
“It was clear through unlearned men that the cross was persuasive, in fact, it persuaded the whole world.”
-St. John Chrysostom
August 23
Feast of St. Rose of Lima, Virgin (1586 – 1617)
"Apart from the cross there is no other ladder by which we may get to heaven."
-St. Rose of Lima
August 22
Feast of the Queenship of Mary
“Mary, Queen of Peace, is close to the women of our day because of her motherhood, her example of openness to others’ needs, and her witness of suffering.”
-St. Pope John Paul II
August 21
“Remember the Devil doesn’t sleep, but seeks our ruin in a thousand ways.”
-St. Angela Merici
August 20
“Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be.”
-St. Bernard
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