Saint Quote: Saint Josephine Bakhita

The Lord has loved me so much: we must love everyone… we must be compassionate! 

-- Saint Josephine Bakhita

A bit of trivia for you. On January 9, 1890 Saint Josephine Bakhita was baptised. On that same day, she was also confirmed, and received Holy Communion from Archbishop Giuseppe Sarto, the Cardinal Patriarch of Venice, the future Pope Pius X, himself.

Saint Quote: Saint Boniface

Let us continue the fight on the day of the Lord. The days of anguish and of tribulation have overtaken us; if God so wills, "let us die for the holy laws of our fathers," so that we may deserve to obtain an eternal inheritance with them. 

-- Saint Boniface 

Saint Quote: Saint Madeline Sophie Barat

Let us attach ourselves to God alone, and turn our eyes and our hopes to Him. 

-- Saint Madeline Sophie Barat

Saint Quote: Saint Isaac Jogues

My confidence is placed in God who does not need our help for accomplishing his designs. Our single endeavor should be to give ourselves to the work and to be faithful to him, and not to spoil his work by our shortcomings.

-- Saint Isaac Jogues

Saint Quote: Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia

What are these few orphans we attend to, these few people we bring the good news to, compared to the millions who are lost and abandoned as sheep without a shepherd? I looked for an answer and I found a complete one in the words of Jesus: 'Ask the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers to gather his harvest'. I concluded then that I had found the secret key to all good works and to the salvation of all souls. 

-- Saint Hannibal Mary Di Francia

Saint Quote: Saint Bonaventure

Mary seeks for those who approach her devoutly and with reverence, for such she loves, nourishes, and adopts as her children. 

-- Saint Bonaventure

Saint Quote: Pope Saint Leo the Great

Christ's inexpressible grace gave us blessings better than those the demon's envy had taken away.

-- Pope Saint Leo the Great from a sermon