June 24
Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
“Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths.”
-Matthew 3: 3
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The Pharisees I see
June 23
“My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were around Pilate.”
-St. Margaret of Cortona
Self-Sacrifice
June 22
Feast of St. Paulinus of Nola (355-431)
What I have I give thee; we will go to Africa, and I will give myself for your son."
--St. Paulinus of Nola to a widow
whose only son was taken into
slavery by the son-in-law
of a Vandal king
What is my "Hammer"?
June 23
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
“I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance.”
-St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Finding Joy in the Cross
June 20
“I could not be happy without the Cross - I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy but without it would be lost."
--Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Safe Against Error
June 19
“The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error."
--St. Frumentius, Bishop
Lord, Save Us
June 18
“Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke they guardian, thy leader; cry out to him and say, 'Lord, save us, lest we perish!'"
--St. Bernard
Finding our Mother
June 17
“Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the mother’ and where the Mother is, there also is the Son."
-St. Paul of the Cross
Moment to Moment
June 16
“We should not wish for anything but what comes to us from moment to moment, exercising ourselves nonetheless for good."
-St. Catherine of Genoa
Great Women
June 15
“The great women always recall us to the deeper needs and the greater destinies; and so they try to save the world from the shallow, the slick, the facile, and the cruel, and to show us that the world of men is not meant to be either a battlefield or a laboratory, but a family.”
--Gerald Vann, O. P.
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