Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Baptist de La Salle

Teachers who are not actively involved in the learning process themselves, force their students to drink from stagnant water.

– Saint John Baptist de La Salle

Saint John Baptist de La Salle's patronage: Educators; school principals; teachers.

Saint Vincent Ferrer Quote

If you truly want to help the soul of your neighbor, you should approach God first with all your heart. Ask him simply to fill you with charity, the greatest of all virtues; with it you can accomplish what you desire.

– Saint Vincent Ferrer

Saint Vincent Ferrer's patronage: Archdiocese of Valencia; brick makers; builders; construction workers; pavement workers; plumbers; prisoners; Spanish orphanages; tile makers.

Saint Isidore of Seville Quote

We, as Catholics are not permitted to believe anything of our own will, nor to choose what someone has believed of his. We have God's apostles as authorities, who did not themselves of their own wills choose anything of what they wanted to believe, but faithfully transmitted to the nations, the teachings of Christ.

– Saint Isidore of Seville

Saint Isidore of Seville's patronage: Computer technicians; computer users; computers; the Internet; schoolchildren; students.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Richard of Chichester

Satisfaction consists in the cutting off of the causes of the sin. Thus, fasting is the proper antidote to lust; prayer to pride, to envy, anger and sloth; alms to covetousness.

– Saint Richard of Chichester

Saint Richard of Chichester's patronage: Coachmen; Diocese of Chichester; Sussex, England.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Francis of Paola

Fix your minds on the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ. Inflamed with love for us, He came down from heaven to redeem us. For our sake He endured every torment of body and soul and shrank from no bodily pain. He himself gave us an example of perfect patience and love. We, then, are to be patient in adversity.

– Saint Francis of Paola

Saint Francis of Paola's patronage: Against fire; boatmen; Calabria, Italy (named by Pope John XXIII in 1963); mariners; naval officers; plague epidemics; sailors; sterility; travelers; watermen.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Chrysostom On the Resurrection

O Death, where is your sting? O Hell, where is your victory? Christ is risen, and you are overthrown. Christ is risen, and the demons are fallen. Christ is risen, and the angels rejoice. Christ is risen, and life reigns. Christ is risen, and not one dead remains in the grave. For Christ, being risen from the dead, is become the first fruits of those who have fallen asleep. To Him be glory and dominion unto ages of ages.

– Saint John Chrysostom

Saint John Chrysostom's patronage: Constantinople; epilepsy; Istanbul, Turkey; lecturers; orators; preachers; speakers.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Irenaeus of Lyons on Christ the First-fruits of the Resurrection

The Word of God became man, the Son of God became the Son of Man, in order to unite man with himself and make him, by adoption, a son of God.

Only by being united to one who is himself immune could we be preserved from corruption and death, and how else could this union have been achieved if he had not first become what we are? How else could what is corruptible and mortal in us have been swallowed up in his incorruptibility and immortality, to enable us to receive adoptive sonship? Therefore, the Son of God, our Lord, the Word of the Father, is also the son of man; he became the son of man by a human birth from Mary, a member of the human race.

The Lord himself has given us a sign here below and in the heights of heaven, a sign that man did not ask for because he never dreamt that such a thing would be possible. A virgin was with a child and she bore a son who is called Emmanuel, which means “God with us.”

He came down to the earth here below in search of the sheep that was lost, the sheep that was in fact his own creature, and then ascended into the heights of heaven to offer to the Father and entrust to his care the human race that he had found again.

The Lord himself became the first-fruits of the resurrection of mankind, and when its time of punishment for disobedience is over the rest of the body, to which the whole human race belongs, will rise from the grave as the head has done. By God’s aid it will grow and be strengthened in all its joints and ligaments, each member having its own proper place in the body. There are many rooms in the Father’s house because the body has many members.

God bore with man patiently when he fell because he foresaw the victory that would be his through the Word. Weakness allowed strength its full play, and so revealed God’s kindness and great power.

– Saint Irenaeus of Lyons from his monumental work “Against Heresies”

Saint Irenaeus of Lyons' patronage: Archdiocese of Mobile, Alabama.