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

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.