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April 8

“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.”

 --From a sermon of St. Bernard

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April 7

St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle (1651-1719)

“Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters.”

 --St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle to his Christian Brothers

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April 6

“However severe God’s guidance may seem to us at times, it’s always the guidance of a Father who is infinitely good, wise, and kind.” 

--Traditionally attributed to St. Julie Billiart

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April 5

St. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419)

“You must open the interior eyes of your soul on this light, on this heaven within you, a vast horizon stretching far beyond the realm of human activity.”

 --From a letter of St. Vincent Ferrer

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April 4

“None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.”

--Romans 14:7

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June 30

 “Be of good cheer, only work, only strive cheerfully; for nothing is lost. Every prayer of yours, every psalm you sing is recorded. Every alms, every fast is recorded.”

                                                                        -St. Cyril of Jerusalem

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June 29

 Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles

“Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostle’s blood.”

                                                                                    -St. Augustine

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June 28

Feast of St. Irenaeus, Bishop and Martyr (130 – 200)

“Where there is order, there is also harmony, where there is harmony, there is also correct timing; where there is correct timing, there is also advantage.”

                                                                                    -St. Irenaeus

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June 27

Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria , Bishop (D. 444)

“That anyone could doubt the right of the holy Virgin to be called the Mother of God fills me with astonishment. Surely she must be the Mother of God if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, and she gave birth to him! Our Lord’s disciples may not have used those exact words, but they delivered to us the belief those words enshrine, and this has also been taught us by the holy fathers.”

                                                                        -St. Cyril of Alexandria

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June 26

“How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I’ve received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven.”

                                                                        -St. Therese of Lisieux

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