For God so loved the world, as to give His only begotten Son; that whosoever believeth in Him, may not perish, but may have life everlasting. – Saint John the Apostle

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Wednesday, September 6, 2017

Blessed Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi Quote

Blessed Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi


I do not know what He is preparing for me in the journey I begin tomorrow. I know one thing only, if He is good and loves me immensely, everything else: calm or storm, danger or safety, life or death, are merely changeable and passing expressions of the beloved immutable, eternal Love. Yes, my beloved brethren, we have another country, another home, a kingdom where we must all meet, where there will no longer be separations or departures, where past sorrows and danger will merely serve to increase our consolation and glory.

-– Blessed Giovanni Battista Mazzucconi, writing before his last missionary journey




Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Blessed John Henry Newman Quote



I have a place in God’s counsels, in God’s world, which no one else has;
whether I be rich or poor, despised or esteemed by man,
God knows me and calls me by my name.
God has created me to do Him some definite service;
He has committed some work to me which He has not committed to another.
I have my mission–I never may know it in this life, but I shall be told it in the next.
Somehow I am necessary for His purposes,
as necessary in my place as an Archangel in his
if, indeed, I fail, He can raise another, as He could make the stones children of Abraham. Yet I have a part in this great work;
I am a link in a chain, a bond of connexion between persons.
He has not created me for naught.
I shall do good, I shall do His work;
I shall be an angel of peace,
a preacher of truth in my own place, while not intending it,
if I do but keep His commandments and serve Him in my calling.


Blessed John Henry Newman


Monday, September 4, 2017

Saint Teresa of Calcutta Quote

Saint Teresa of Calcutta


Everybody today seems to be in such a terrible rush, anxious for greater developments and greater riches and so on, so that children have very little time for their parents. Parents have very little time for each other, and in the home begins the disruption of peace of the world.

Saint Teresa of Calcutta



Saint Teresa of Calcutta's patronage: World Youth Day; Missionaries of Charity



Sunday, September 3, 2017

Saint Rose of Viterbo Quote

Saint Rose of Viterbo


I die with joy, for I desire to be united to my God. Live so as not to fear death. For those who live well in the world, death is not frightening, but sweet and precious.

Saint Rose of Viterbo

Saint Rose of Viterbo's patronage: people in exile; people rejected by religious orders; Franciscan youth; Viterbo, Italy




Saturday, September 2, 2017

Pope Saint Gregory the Great Quote



If we are, in fact, now occupied in good deeds, we should not attribute the strength with which we are doing them to ourselves. We must not count on ourselves, because even if we know what kind of person we are today, we do not know what we will be tomorrow.

Pope Saint Gregory the Great



Pope Saint Gregory the Great's patronage: choir boys; educators; gout; masons; music; musicians; choirs; singers; stonecutters; teachers; popes; students; scholars; against plague; against gout; against fever; England; West Indies




Friday, September 1, 2017

Saint Solomon Leclerq Quote

Saint Solomon Leclerq


As for us, we hold to what we believed ten and twenty years ago; to what our forefathers believed one hundred years ago, and one thousand years ago, and to that which the whole Catholic world has always believed.

-- Saint Solomon Leclerq


Saint Solomon Leclerq's patronage: Persecuted Christians






Thursday, August 31, 2017

Saint Cyprian of Carthage Quote

Saint Cyprian of Carthage


The spouse of the Church cannot be defiled. Whosoever separates from the Church and is joined to an adulteress is separated from the promises of the Church. Nor can he who forsakes the Church of Christ attain the rewards of Christ: He is a stranger; he is a worldling; he is an enemy.

-- Saint Cyprian of Carthage

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