Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Anastasius of Sinai

Let us run with confidence and joy to enter into the cloud like Moses and Elijah, or like James and John. Let us be caught up like Peter to behold the divine vision and to be transfigured by that glorious transfiguration. Let us retire from the world, stand aloof from the earth, rise above the body, detach ourselves from creatures and turn to the creator, to whom Peter in ecstasy exclaimed: “Lord, it is good for us to be here”.

It is indeed good to be here, as you have said, Peter. It is good to be with Jesus and to remain here for ever. What greater happiness or higher honor could we have than to be with God, to be made like Him and to live in His light?

– Saint Anastasius of Sinai

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Jerome

If Christ did not want to dismiss the Jews without food in the desert for fear that they would collapse on the way, it was to teach us that it is dangerous to try to get to heaven without the Bread of Heaven.

– Saint Jerome

Saint Jerome's patronage: Morong, Rizal; archaeologists; archivists; Bible scholars; librarians; libraries; school children; students; translators.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Let us, therefore, forsake the vanity of the crowd and their false teachings, and turn back to the word delivered to us from the beginning.

– Saint Polycarp of Smyrna

Saint Polycarp of Smyrna's patronage: Against dysentery; against earache.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Cyprian of Carthage

He who deserts the chair of Peter, upon whom the Church was founded, does he trust himself to be in the Church?

– Saint Cyprian of Carthage

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

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Peter Damian

For the wisdom of the flesh brings death, but that of the spirit brings life and peace, since the wisdom of the flesh is the enemy of God; it is not subject to God's law, nor can it be. And since the wisdom of the flesh is unable to bear the yoke of God's law, it cannot look upon it either, for its eyes are clouded with the smoke of pride.

– Saint Peter Damian

Saint Peter Damian's patronage: Faenza, Italy; traceurs; freerunners.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Chrysostom

What prayer could be more true before God the Father than that which the Son, who is Truth, uttered with His own lips?

– Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom's patronage: Constantinople; education; epilepsy; lecturers; orators; preachers.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Basil the Great

We need not only read Sacred Scripture, but learn it as well and grow up in it. Realize that nothing is written in Scripture unnecessarily. Not to read Sacred Scripture is a great evil.

– Saint Basil the Great

Saint Basil the Great's patronage: Russia; Cappadocia; Hospital administrators; Reformers; Monks; Education; Exorcism; Liturgists.