Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Anselm of Canterbury

God often works more by the life of the illiterate seeking the things that are God's, than by the ability of the learned seeking the things that are their own.

– Saint Anselm of Canterbury

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

For me, prayer is an aspiration of the heart, it is a simple glance directed to heaven, it is a cry of gratitude and love in the midst of trial as well as joy; finally, it is something great, supernatural, which expands my soul and unites me to Jesus.

– Saint Thérèse of Lisieux

Saint Thérèse of Lisieux's patronage: Florists; foreign missions; missionaries; pilots; against tuberculosis; AIDS sufferers; illness; loss of parents; Australia; France; Russia; Diocese of Fairbanks, Alaska; Diocese of Fresno, California; Diocese of Juneau, Alaska; Diocese of Pueblo, Colorado.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Vincent de Paul

He who allows himself to be ruled or guided by the lower and animal part of his nature, deserves to be called a beast rather than a man.

– Saint Vincent de Paul

Saint Vincent de Paul's patronage: Against leprosy; Brothers of Charity; Sisters of Charity; charitable societies; charitable workers; charities; horses; hospitals; hospital workers; lepers; lost articles; prisoners; volunteers; spiritual help; Saint Vincent de Paul Societies; Vincentian Service Corps; Madagascar; diocese of Richmond, Virginia.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Apollonius the Apologist

No, I enjoy life; but love of life does not make me afraid to die. There is waiting for me something better: eternal life, given to the person who has lived well on earth.

– Saint Apollonius the Apologist when asked by the Roman senate at his trial if he wanted to die

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John of Damascus

All who ask receive, those who seek find, and to those who knock it shall be opened. Therefore, let us knock at the beautiful garden of Scripture. It is fragrant, sweet, and blooming with various sounds of spiritual and divinely inspired birds. They sing all around our ears, capture our hearts, comfort the mourners, pacify the angry, and fill us with everlasting joy.

– Saint John of Damascus

Saint John of Damascus' patronage: Pharmacists; icon painters; theology students.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

The Eucharist bathes the tormented soul in light and love. Then the soul appreciates these words, 'Come all you who are sick, I will restore your health.'

– Saint Bernadette of Lourdes

Saint Bernadette of Lourdes' patronage: Bodily ills; illness; Lourdes, France; people ridiculed for their piety; poverty; shepherdesses; shepherds; sick people; sickness.

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Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Peter Chrysologus

He is The Bread sown in the Virgin, leavened in the Flesh, molded in His Passion, baked in the furnace of the Sepulcher, placed in the Churches, and set upon the Altars, which daily supplies Heavenly Food to the faithful.

– Saint Peter Chrysologus

Saint Peter Chrysologus' patronage: Against fever; against mad dogs.

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Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Peter Gonzales

If you love me, follow me! If you cannot follow me, forget me!

– Saint Peter Gonzales to family and friends who wanted him to return to a worldly life.

Saint Peter Gonzales' patronage: Sailors; mariners.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint David Uribe-Velasco

If I was anointed with the holy oil that makes me minister of the Most High, why not be anointed with my blood in defense of the souls redeemed with the blood of Christ? What happiness to die in defense of the rights of God! To die before not knowing the Vicar of Christ!

– Saint David Uribe-Velasco

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Teresa of the Andes

I wish…I could help you find consolation near the Cross. In its shadow, every kind of bitterness fades. No one has suffered like Jesus has and from His cross, He teaches us to bear with every pain in silence and in resignation. From the cross and with open arms, He invites us, saying; “Come to me all you who are burdened under the weight of suffering and I will give you rest."

– Saint Teresa of the Andes

Saint Teresa of the Andes' patronage: Against disease; against illness; ill people; young people; Santiago, Chile; The Andes.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Gemma Galgani

If I saw the gates of Hell open and I stood on the brink of the abyss, I should not despair, I should not lose hope of mercy, because I should trust in You, my God.

– Saint Gemma Galgani

Saint Gemma Galgani's patronage: Students; Pharmacists; Paratroopers and Parachutists; loss of parents, those suffering back injury or back pain; those suffering with headaches/migraines; those struggling with temptations to impurity; those seeking purity of heart.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Padre Pio of Pietrelcina

Walk in the way of the Lord with simplicity and do not torment your spirit. You must hate your defects but with a quiet hate, not troublesome and restless.

– 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 Francis de Sales

Do not lose courage in considering your own imperfections, but instantly set about remedying them.

– Saint Francis de Sales

Saint Francis de Sales' patronage: Authors; Diocese of Baker, Oregon; Archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio; Catholic press; Diocese of Columbus, Ohio; confessors; deaf people; deafness; Diocese of Wilmington, Delaware; educators; journalists; teachers; writers.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Faustina Kowalska

On one occasion, I heard these words: "My daughter, tell the whole world about My inconceivable mercy. I desire that the Feast of Mercy be a refuge and shelter for all souls, and especially for poor sinners. On that day the very depths of My tender mercy are open. I pour out a whole ocean of graces upon those souls who approach the fount of My mercy. The soul that will go to Confession and receive Holy Communion shall obtain complete forgiveness of sins and punishment. On that day all the divine floodgates through which graces flow are opened. Let no soul fear to draw near to Me, even though its sins be as scarlet. My mercy is so great that no mind, be it of man or of angel, will be able to fathom it throughout all eternity. Everything that exists has come forth from the very depths of My most tender mercy. Every soul in its relation to Me will contemplate My love and mercy throughout eternity. The Feast of Mercy emerged from My very depths of tenderness. It is My desire that it be solemnly celebrated on the first Sunday after Easter. Mankind will not have peace until it turns to the Fount of My Mercy."

– Saint Faustina Kowalska from her diary

Saint Faustina Kowalska's patronage: World Youth Day 2016; Sisters of Reparation to the Most Sacred Heart of Jesus.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

It is human to fall, but angelic to rise again.

– Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier

Saint Mary Euphrasia Pelletier's patronage: Good Shepherd Sisters; travelers.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Baptist de La Salle

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water.

– Saint John Baptist de La Salle

Saint John Baptist de La Salle's patronage: Educators; school principals; teachers.

Saint Vincent Ferrer Quote

If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask him simply to fill you with charity, the greatest of all virtues; with it you can accomplish what you desire.

– Saint Vincent Ferrer

Saint Vincent Ferrer's patronage: Archdiocese of Valencia; brick makers; builders; construction workers; pavement workers; plumbers; prisoners; Spanish orphanages; tile makers.

Saint Isidore of Seville Quote

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

– Saint Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville's patronage: Computer technicians; computer users; computers; the Internet; schoolchildren; students.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Richard of Chichester

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

– Saint Richard of Chichester

Saint Richard of Chichester's patronage: Coachmen; Diocese of Chichester; Sussex, England.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Francis of Paola

Fix your minds on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inflamed with love for us, He came down from heaven to redeem us. For our sake He endured every torment of body and soul and shrank from no bodily pain. He himself gave us an example of perfect patience and love. We, then, are to be patient in adversity.

– Saint Francis of Paola

Saint Francis of Paola's patronage: Against fire; boatmen; Calabria, Italy (named by Pope John XXIII in 1963); mariners; naval officers; plague epidemics; sailors; sterility; travelers; watermen.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Chrysostom On the Resurrection

O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave. For Christ, being risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. To Him be glory and dominion unto ages of ages.

– Saint John Chrysostom

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

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Irenaeus of Lyons on Christ the First-fruits of the Resurrection

The Word of God became man, the Son of God became the Son of Man, in order to unite man with himself and make him, by adoption, a son of God.

Only by being united to one who is himself immune could we be preserved from corruption and death, and how else could this union have been achieved if he had not first become what we are? How else could what is corruptible and mortal in us have been swallowed up in his incorruptibility and immortality, to enable us to receive adoptive sonship? Therefore, the Son of God, our Lord, the Word of the Father, is also the son of man; he became the son of man by a human birth from Mary, a member of the human race.

The Lord himself has given us a sign here below and in the heights of heaven, a sign that man did not ask for because he never dreamt that such a thing would be possible. A virgin was with a child and she bore a son who is called Emmanuel, which means “God with us.”

He came down to the earth here below in search of the sheep that was lost, the sheep that was in fact his own creature, and then ascended into the heights of heaven to offer to the Father and entrust to his care the human race that he had found again.

The Lord himself became the first-fruits of the resurrection of mankind, and when its time of punishment for disobedience is over the rest of the body, to which the whole human race belongs, will rise from the grave as the head has done. By God’s aid it will grow and be strengthened in all its joints and ligaments, each member having its own proper place in the body. There are many rooms in the Father’s house because the body has many members.

God bore with man patiently when he fell because he foresaw the victory that would be his through the Word. Weakness allowed strength its full play, and so revealed God’s kindness and great power.

– Saint Irenaeus of Lyons from his monumental work “Against Heresies”

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons' patronage: Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Dear brethren, the Lord has marked out for us the fullness of love that we ought to have for each other. He tells us: No one has greater love than the man who lays down his life for his friends. In these words, the Lord tells us what the perfect love we should have for one another involves. John, the evangelist who recorded them, draws the conclusion in one of his letters: As Christ laid down his life for us, so we too ought to lay down our lives for our brothers. We should indeed love one another as he loved us, he who laid down his life for us.

– Saint Augustine of Hippo from his Treatise on the Gospel of John

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 Justin Martyr

As by the Word of God, Jesus our Savior was made Flesh and had both Flesh and Blood for our salvation, so also the food which has been blessed by the word of prayer instituted by Him is both the Flesh and Blood of Jesus Incarnate.

– Saint Justin Martyr

Saint Justin Martyr's patronage: Apologists; lecturers; orators; philopsophers; speakers.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Augustine of Hippo

Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe.

– 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 Gregory Nazianzen

So let us take our part in the Passover prescribed by the law, not in a literal way, but according to the teaching of the Gospel; not in an imperfect way, but perfectly; not only for a time, but eternally. Let us regard as our home the heavenly Jerusalem, not the earthly one; the city glorified by angels, not the one laid waste by armies.

– Saint Gregory Nazianzen from a homily on Christ’s Passion

Saint Gregory Nazianzen's patronage: For harvests; poets.