Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

To you, O Master, who loves all mankind

I hasten on rising from sleep.

By your mercy I go out to do your work

and I make my prayer to you.

Help me at all times and in all things.

Deliver me from every evil thing of this world

and from pursuit by the devil.

Save me and bring me to your eternal kingdom,

For you are my Creator,

You inspire all good thoughts in me.

In you is all my hope and to you I give glory,

now and forever.

-- Saint Macarius the Wonder Worker

Saint Frances Salesia

Let us establish a permanent Spring season in our heart through ‘yes’ often repeated to all of God’s permissions and wills.

-- Saint Frances Salesia

Pope Saint Pius X

Whereas in the Lord's Prayer, we are bidden to ask for 'our daily bread,' the Holy Fathers of the Church all but unanimously teach that by these words must be understood, not so much that material bread which is the support of the body, as the Eucharistic bread, which ought to be our daily food.

-- Pope Saint Pius X

Saint John the Baptist

Behold, the Lamb of God, who takes away the sin of the world! 

-- Saint John the Baptist from the Gospel According to John 1: 29

Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

It is better to be the child of God than king of the whole world.

-- Saint Aloysius Gonzaga

Saint Vincent Ferrer

Christ, the Master of humility, manifests His Truth only to the humble and hides Himself from the proud.

-- Saint Vincent Ferrer

Saint Andre Bessette

When I joined this community, the superiors showed me the door, and I remained forty years.

-- Saint Andre Bessette This was in regard to Saint Andre having difficulty in being accepted into the order of the Holy Cross Brothers, and upon being accepted was given the job of doorkeeper.