January 10

"Sin makes men accomplices of one another and causes concupiscence, violence, and injustice to reign among them."

-Catechism of the Catholic Church 1869

January 9

"For the time is coming when people will not endure sound teaching, but having itching ears they will accumulate for themselves teachers to suit their own liking, and will turn away from listening to the truth and wander into myths."

-2 Timothy 4:3-4

January 8

"Resist the devil and he will flee from you."

-James 4:7

January 7

"The chief exercise of prayer is to speak to God and to hear God speak in the bottom of your heart."

-St. Francis de Sales

January 6

"Prayer is not one occupation among many, but is at the center of our life in Christ."

-St. John Paul II

January 4

"Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked; and they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves aprons."

- Gen. 3:7

January 3

"So God created man in His own image."

-Genesis 1:26

January 2

"God is love."

-John 4:16

January 1

Solemnity of the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Mother of God

"For God so loved the world that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have eternal life."

- John 3:16

December 31

Eve of the Feast of Mary, Mother of God

Mother benign of our redeeming Lord,

Star of the sea and portal of the skies,

Unto thy fallen people help afford –

Fallen, but striving still anew to rise.

Thou who dids’t once, while wond’ring

worlds adored,

Bear thy Creator, Virgin then as now,

O by thy holy joy at Gabriel’s word,

Pity the sinners who before thee bow.

-Roman Breviary, Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin