Blessed John Henry Newman Quote on Advent

Advent is a time of waiting, it is a time of joy because the coming of Christ is not only a gift of grace and salvation but it is also a time of commitment because it motivates us to live the present as a time of responsibility and vigilance. This ‘vigilance’ means the necessity, the urgency of an industrious, living ‘wait’. To make all this happen, then we need to wake up, as we are warned by the apostle to the Gentiles, in today's reading to the Romans: ‘Besides this you know what hour it is, how it is full time now for you to wake from sleep. For salvation is nearer to us now than when we first believed'.

– Blessed John Henry Newman

Blessed John Henry Newman's patronage: Personal Ordinariate of Our Lady of Walsingham

Pope Saint Leo the Great Quote

You therefore, whoever you may be, who devoutly and full of faith boast of the Christian name, rightly weigh the grace of your reconciliation. By the Incarnation of the Word, power was given you to return from afar to your Maker, to recognize your true parentage, from a slave to become a freeman, from an outcast to become a son. Born of corruptible flesh, you were empowered to be reborn of the Spirit of God, and to obtain through grace what was not yours through nature. You know that by the spirit of adoption you are become a son of God: you dare call God your father.

– Pope Saint Leo the Great

Pope Saint Leo the Great's patronage: All Parishes named after Pope Saint Leo the Great.

Saint Edmund Campion Quote

In condemning us, you condemn all your own ancestors, all our ancient bishops and kings, all that was once the glory of England — the island of saints, and the most devoted child of the See of Peter.

– Saint Edmund Campion at his death Sentence

Saint John Chrysostom Quote Regarding Saint Andrew the Apostle

After Andrew had stayed with Jesus and had learned much from him, he did not keep this treasure to himself, but hastened to share it with his brother. Notice what Andrew said to him: We have found the Messiah, that is to say, the Christ. Notice how his words reveal what he has learned in so short a time. They show the power of the master who has convinced them of this truth. They reveal the zeal and concern of men preoccupied with this question from the very beginning. Andrew’s words reveal a soul waiting with the utmost longing for the coming of the Messiah, looking forward to his appearing from heaven, rejoicing when he does appear, and hastening to announce so great an event to others. To support one another in the things of the spirit is the true sign of good will between brothers, of loving kinship and sincere affection.

– Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom's patronage: Constantinople; education; epilepsy; lecturers; orators; preachers; speakers; Istanbul, Turkey.

Saint Saturninus of Toulouse Quote

I adore one only God, and to him I am ready to offer a sacrifice of praise. Your gods are devils, and are more delighted with the sacrifice of your souls than with those of your bullocks. How can I fear them who, as you acknowledge, tremble before a Christian?

– Saint Saturninus of Toulouse at his martyrdom

Saint Saturninus of Toulouse's patronage: Against ants; against bovine spongiform encephalopathy; death anxiety; against fraud; against headaches; against mad cow disease; against nausea; against pain; against plague; against scrapie; against smallpox; against syphilis; bullfighters; smallpox patients; Toulouse, France

Saint Catherine Labouré Quote

I knew nothing; I was nothing. For this reason, God picked me out.

– Saint Catherine Labouré

Saint Catherine Labouré's patronage: Miraculous Medal; infirmed people; the elderly

Saint Francis de Sales Quote

All the science of the Saints is included in these two things: To do, and to suffer. And whoever had done these two things best, has made himself most saintly.

– Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales' patronage: Baker, Oregon; Cincinnati, Ohio; Catholic press; Columbus, Ohio; confessors; deaf people; educators; Upington, South Africa; Wilmington, Delaware; writers; journalists; the Institute of Christ the King Sovereign Priest