Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Luigi Orione

Without Prayer nothing good is done. God's works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.

– Saint Luigi Orione

Saint Luigi Orione's patronage: Sons of Divine Providence.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Columbanus

If you are thirsty, drink from the fountain of life; if you are hungry, eat the bread of life. Blessed are they who hunger for that bread and thirst for that fountain; they eat and drink forever and still they desire to eat and drink. For it is lovely above all things, that which is always eaten and drunk, always hungered and thirsted for. Thus David, king and prophet, was moved to say: taste and see that the Lord is good.

– Saint Columbanus

Saint Columbanus’ patronage: Motorcyclists; against floods.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

A thousand years of enjoying human glory is not worth even an hour spent sweetly communing with Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament.

– Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina's patronage: Pietrelcina, Italy; civil defense volunteers; adolescents; stress relief; January blues; Italy; Malta.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Catherine of Bologna

Sometimes the devil inspires souls with an inordinate zeal for a certain virtue or some special pious exercise, so that they will be motivated by their passion to practice it more and more. This temptation is more to pride rather than virtue....Sometimes, on the other hand, the devil coaches souls to do less than they can really do. This temptation is more to false humility...In both cases, the devil's goal is to make the soul discouraged when the virtue is found to be unattainable; and to be wearied and disgusted if his efforts are below his abilities. The soul ends up neglecting everything. It is necessary to overcome the one snare as the other.

– Saint Catherine of Bologna

Saint Catherine of Bologna's patronage: Bologna; Against temptations; Artists; Liberal arts.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John of God

If we look forward to receiving God’s mercy, we can never fail to do good so long as we have the strength. For if we share with the poor, out of love for God, whatever He has given to us, we shall receive according to His promise a hundredfold in eternal happiness. What a fine profit, what a blessed reward! With outstretched arms He begs us to turn toward Him, to weep for our sins, and to become the servants of love, first for ourselves, then for our neighbors. Just as water extinguishes a fire, so love wipes away sin.

– Saint John of God from a letter

Saint John of God's patronage: Booksellers; heart patients; hospitals; nurses; the sick; the dying and firefighters.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart

I have been thinking about the text that was preached on Sunday, the unforgiving servant. We come to the great King of Heaven with empty hands, in debt to Him for everything: life itself, and grace, and all the gifts He lavishes on us. Yet all we can say is, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all I owe,’ while all the time we could never pay anything towards the remission of our own debts, if God did not put into our hands the means to do so. And then, how often do we go away and refuse pardon for some slight fault in our neighbors, withholding our love, remaining aloof, or even nursing a grievance against them, and building up grudges that cool charity.

– Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Colette of Corbie

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image.

– Saint Colette of Corbie

Saint Colette of Corbie's patronage: Against eye disorders; against fever; against headaches; against infertility; against the death of parents; craftsmen; expectant mothers; Poor Clares; servants; sick children; women seeking to conceive; Corbie, France; Ghent, Belgium.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Joseph of the Cross

How do you think that with a bone only three fingers high we should understand the meanings of the designs of God?

– Saint John Joseph of the Cross

Saint John Joseph of the Cross' patronage: Ischia, Italy

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Augustine of Hippo

We should be displeased with ourselves when we commit sin, for sin is displeasing to God. Sinful though we are, let us at least be like God in this, that we are displeased at what displeases Him. In some measure then you will be in harmony with God’s will, because you find displeasing in yourself what is abhorrent to your Creator.

– Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo's patronage: Brewers; diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan; printers; city of Saint Augustine, Florida; diocese of Saint Augustine, Florida; sore eyes; diocese of Superior, Wisconsin; theologians; diocese of Tucson, Arizona.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Katharine Drexel

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

– Saint Katharine Drexel

Saint Katharine Drexel's patronage: Philanthropy; racial justice.

Trivia note: Saint Katharine Drexel was the second canonized saint to have been born in the United States and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen.

Saint Quote of the Day: Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig

Whatever we do, whatever we want, is surely simply the grace that carries us and guides us. God’s almighty grace helps us overcome obstacles.

– Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig from a letter to his sister

Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig's patronage: Prisoners.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint David of Wales

Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us.

– Saint David of Wales

Saint David of Wales’ patronage: Wales; doves; Pembrokeshire; Naas; vegetarians; poets.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Catherine of Siena

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.

– Saint Catherine of Siena

Saint Catherine of Siena's patronage: Against fire; bodily ills; diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; Europe; illness; Italy; miscarriages; people ridiculed for their piety; sexual temptation; sick people; sickness; nurses.

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows Quote

I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own!

– Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows' patronage: Students; youth; clerics; Seminarians; Catholic Action; Abruzzi region of Italy.

Saint Macarius of Egypt quote

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

– Saint Macarius of Egypt

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Anastasius of Sinai

Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John. Let us be caught up like Peter to behold the divine vision and to be transfigured by that glorious transfiguration. Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the body, detach ourselves from creatures and turn to the creator, to whom Peter in ecstasy exclaimed: “Lord, it is good for us to be here”.

It is indeed good to be here, as you have said, Peter. It is good to be with Jesus and to remain here for ever. What greater happiness or higher honor could we have than to be with God, to be made like Him and to live in His light?

– Saint Anastasius of Sinai

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Jerome

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

– Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome's patronage: Morong, Rizal; archaeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; school children; students; translators.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Let us, therefore, forsake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

– Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna's patronage: Against dysentery; against earache.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Cyprian of Carthage

He who deserts the chair of Peter, upon whom the Church was founded, does he trust himself to be in the Church?

– Saint Cyprian of Carthage

Saint Cyprian of Carthage's patronage: Algeria; North Africa.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Peter Damian

For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

– Saint Peter Damian

Saint Peter Damian's patronage: Faenza, Italy; traceurs; freerunners.