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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June 25
"If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference."
- Flannery O'Connor
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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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June 23
"My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were
around Pilate."
-St. Margaret of Cortona
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June 22
Feast of St. Thomas More
"Do not let your mind by troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be best."
-St. Thomas More to his daughter
during his imprisonment
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June 21
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
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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
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June 19
"The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error."
--St. Frumentius, Bishop
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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
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