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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Thursday, September 21, 2017

Saint Paul Chong Hasang Quote

Saint Paul Chong Hasang


I have told you that I am a Christian, and will be one until my death.

-- Saint Paul Chong Hasang



Wednesday, September 20, 2017

Saint Bede the Venerable Quote on Saint Matthew

PD-1923
"Saint Matthew"
-- by James Tissot


Jesus saw a man called Matthew sitting at the tax office, and he said to him: "Follow me.” Jesus saw Matthew, not merely in the usual sense, but more significantly with his merciful understanding of men. He saw the tax collector and, because he saw him through the eyes of mercy and chose him, he said to him: “Follow me.” This following meant imitating the pattern of his life – not just walking after him. Saint John tells us: “Whoever says he abides in Christ ought to walk in the same way in which he walked.” “And he rose and followed him.” There is no reason for surprise that the tax collector abandoned earthly wealth as soon as the Lord commanded him. Nor should one be amazed that neglecting his wealth, he joined a band of men whose leader had, on Matthew’s assessment, no riches at all. Our Lord summoned Matthew by speaking to him in words. By an invisible, interior impulse flooding his mind with the light of grace, he instructed him to walk in his footsteps. In this way Matthew could understand that Christ, who was summoning him away from earthly possessions, had incorruptible treasures of heaven in his gift.


Saint Bede the Venerable from a homily


Saint Matthew's patronage: Accountants; bankers; bookkeepers; customs officers; security guards; stock brokers; tax collectors; Salerno, Italy.



Tuesday, September 19, 2017

Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn Quote

Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn


This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: if I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for Him that I die. My immortal life is on the point of beginning. Become Christians if you wish to be happy after death, because God has eternal chastisements in store for those who have refused to know Him.

Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn



Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn's patronage: Korea; Korean Clergy



Trivia note: Saint Andrew Kim Tae-gŏn was the first native Korean priest.


Monday, September 18, 2017

Saint Jerome Quote



Thank God I am deemed worthy to be hated by the world.

Saint Jerome



Saint Jerome's patronage: archeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; school children; students; translators




Sunday, September 17, 2017

Saint Joseph of Cupertino Quote

PD-1923


Clearly, what God wants above all is our will which we received as a free gift from God in creation and possess as though our own. When a man trains himself to acts of virtue, it is with the help of grace from God from whom all good things come that he does this. The will is what man has as his unique possession.

Saint Joseph of Cupertino



Saint Joseph of Cupertino's patronage: air travellers; astronauts; aviators; paratroopers; pilots; students; test takers.





Saturday, September 16, 2017

Saint Robert Bellarmine Quote

Saint Robert Bellarmine


It is not difficult for one seal to make many impressions exactly alike, but to vary shapes almost infinitely, which is what God has done in creation, this is in truth a divine work.

Saint Robert Bellarmine



Saint Robert Bellarmine's patronage: canon lawyers; canonists; catechists; catechumens; archdiocese of Cincinnati, Ohio.


Friday, September 15, 2017

Saint Cyprian of Carthage Quote

PD-1923


After this we must subjoin, that being redeemed and quickened by the blood of Christ, we ought to prefer nothing to Christ, because He preferred nothing to us, and on our account preferred evil things to good, poverty to riches, servitude to rule, death to immortality; that we, on the contrary, in our sufferings are preferring the riches and delights of paradise to the poverty of the world, eternal dominion and kingdom to the slavery of time, immortality to death, God and Christ to the devil and Antichrist.

Saint Cyprian of Carthage from his Exhortation to Martyrdom


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