Saint Quote of the Day: Saint André Bessette

Practice charity with your neighbor—and this doesn’t mean only to give money to the poor. There are many ways to practice charity. We could, for example, keep ourselves from examining our neighbor’s conscience. There is also visiting the sick, who often do not need money, but who need good advice to help them get closer to God.

– Saint André Bessette

Saint André Bessette's patronage: Family caregivers in Canada

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Nepomucene Neumann

A man must always be ready, for death comes when and where God wills it.

– Saint John Nepomucene Neumann

NOTE: Saint John Nepomucene Neumann is the first United States bishop to be canonized.

Saint John Nepomucene Neumann's patronage: Catholic education

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

I will go peaceably and firmly to the Catholic Church: for if Faith is so important to our salvation, I will seek it where true Faith first began, seek it among those who received it from God Himself.

– Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton

Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton's patronage: Death of children; in-law problems; loss of parents; opposition of Church authorities; people ridiculed for their piety; Diocese of Shreveport, Louisiana; Apostleship of the Sea; widows; State of Maryland; Catholic schools.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Bernard of Clairvaux on the Holy Name of Jesus

The name of Jesus is the purest, and holiest, the noblest and most indulgent of names, the name of all blessings and of all virtues; it is the name of the God-Man, of sanctity itself. To think of Jesus is to think of the great, infinite God Who, having given us His life as an example, has also bestowed the necessary understanding, energy and assistance to enable us to follow and imitate Him, in our thoughts, inclinations, words and actions. If the name of Jesus reaches the depths of our heart, it leaves heavenly virtue there. We say, therefore, with our great master, St. Paul the Apostle: If any man love not our Lord Jesus Christ, let him be anathema (1 Corinthians 16:22).

– Saint Bernard of Clairvaux

Saint Bernard of Clairvaux's patronage: Beekeepers; bees; candlemakers; chandlers; wax-melters; wax refiners; Gibraltar; Queens College, Cambridge.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Basil the Great and Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Saint Basil the Great (left)
and Saint Gregory Nazianzen

Happy is he who night and day entertains no other care and anxiety but how he may be able to render a satisfactory account of his life when he stands before the Judge.

– Saint Basil the Great

Saint Basil the Great's patronage: Cappadocia; hospital administrators; reformers; monks; Russia.

Let us not esteem worldly prosperity or adversity as things real or of any moment, but let us live elsewhere, and raise all our attention to Heaven; esteeming sin as the only true evil, and nothing truly good, but virtue which unites us to God.

– Saint Gregory Nazianzen

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

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe

The blessed Paul argues that we are saved by faith, which he declares to be not from us but a gift from God. Thus there cannot possibly be true salvation where there is no true faith, and, since this faith is divinely enabled, it is without doubt bestowed by his free generosity. Where there is true belief through true faith, true salvation certainly accompanies it. Anyone who departs from true faith will not possess the grace of true salvation.

– Saint Fulgentius of Ruspe

Saint Quote of the Day: Pope Saint John Paul II

"Man looks on the outward appearance, but the Lord looks on the heart" (1 Sm 16:7). And Mary’s heart was fully disposed to the fulfilment of the divine will. This is why the Blessed Virgin is the model of Christian expectation and hope. In her heart there is no shade of selfishiness: she desires nothing for herself except God's glory and human salvation. For her, the very privilege of being preserved from original sin is not a reason to boast, but one for total service to her Son’s redemptive mission.

– Pope Saint John Paul II

Pope Saint John Paul II's patronage: Kraków, Poland; World Youth Day; young Catholics; Świdnica; families; World Meeting of Families 2015