Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Katharine Drexel

The Eucharist is a never-ending sacrifice. It is the Sacrament of love, the supreme love, the act of love.

– Saint Katharine Drexel

Saint Katharine Drexel's patronage: Philanthropy; racial justice.

Trivia note: Saint Katharine Drexel was the second canonized saint to have been born in the United States and the first to have been born a U.S. citizen.

Saint Quote of the Day: Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig

Whatever we do, whatever we want, is surely simply the grace that carries us and guides us. God’s almighty grace helps us overcome obstacles.

– Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig from a letter to his sister

Blessed Engelmar Unzeitig's patronage: Prisoners.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint David of Wales

Lords, brothers and sisters, Be joyful, and keep your faith and your creed, and do the little things that you have seen me do and heard about. And as for me, I will walk the path that our fathers have trod before us.

– Saint David of Wales

Saint David of Wales’ patronage: Wales; doves; Pembrokeshire; Naas; vegetarians; poets.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Catherine of Siena

Enrich your soul in the great goodness of God: The Father is your table, the Son is your food, and the Holy Spirit waits on you and then makes His dwelling in you.

– Saint Catherine of Siena

Saint Catherine of Siena's patronage: Against fire; bodily ills; diocese of Allentown, Pennsylvania, USA; Europe; illness; Italy; miscarriages; people ridiculed for their piety; sexual temptation; sick people; sickness; nurses.

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows Quote

I will attempt day by day to break my will into pieces. I want to do God’s Holy Will, not my own!

– Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows

Saint Gabriel of Our Lady of Sorrows' patronage: Students; youth; clerics; Seminarians; Catholic Action; Abruzzi region of Italy.

Saint Macarius of Egypt quote

Just as the blessings of God are unutterably great, so their acquisition requires much hardship and toil undertaken with hope and faith.

– Saint Macarius of Egypt

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