July 12
“The principal safeguard is a prudent reserve, and the not allowing liberties to be taken with you. Purity is a precious jewel, and the owner of a precious stone would never dream of making a display of his riches in the presence of thieves.”
-St. John Bosco
July 11
“Never utter in your neighbor’s absence what you would not say in their presence.”
-St. Mary Magdalene of Pazzi
July 10
“We should pray hard for the conversion of sinners. In Heaven, there is more joy over the conversion of one sinner than over many just who are saved."
-Blessed Raphaela Mary
July 9
“Be filled with the Spirit addressing one another in psalms and hymns and spiritual songs... always and for everything giving thanks in the name of Jesus Christ to God the Father."
-Ephesians 5:18-20
July 8
“One must have lit in oneself so bright a flame of sympathy and tenderness that all who are beginning as we are ending can come to find their light and fire."
-Elisabeth Leseur
July 6
Feast of Saint Maria Goretti
“Not all of us are expected to die a martyr’s death, but we are called to the pursuit of Christian virtue. This demands strength of character… a constant, persistent and relentless effort is being asked of us right up to the moment of our death.”
-Pope Pius XII at the canonization of St. Maria Goretti
July 5
“This is the essential mission of the apostle; to be a living witness to the greatness and beauty of Christianity; especially at the present day, when so many people have concerning religion only false ideas, prejudices, or total lack of understanding.”
-Raoul Plus, S.J.
July 4
“One of the greatest disasters that happened to modern civilization was for democracy to inscribe ‘liberty’ on its banners instead of ‘justice.’ Because ‘liberty’ was considered the ideal it was not long until some men interpreted it as meaning ‘freedom from justice.'"
-Venerable Fulton J. Sheen
July 3
Feast of Saint Thomas the Apostle
“Unless I see in his hands the print of the nails, and place my finger in the mark of the nails, and place my hand in his side, I will not believe.”
-John 20:25
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