Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart

I have been thinking about the text that was preached on Sunday, the unforgiving servant. We come to the great King of Heaven with empty hands, in debt to Him for everything: life itself, and grace, and all the gifts He lavishes on us. Yet all we can say is, ‘Have patience with me, and I will pay thee all I owe,’ while all the time we could never pay anything towards the remission of our own debts, if God did not put into our hands the means to do so. And then, how often do we go away and refuse pardon for some slight fault in our neighbors, withholding our love, remaining aloof, or even nursing a grievance against them, and building up grudges that cool charity.

– Saint Teresa Margaret (Redi) of the Sacred Heart

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Colette of Corbie

My eyes, I have filled with Jesus upon Whom I have fixed them at the Elevation of the Host at Holy Mass and I do not wish to replace Him with any other image.

– Saint Colette of Corbie

Saint Colette of Corbie's patronage: Against eye disorders; against fever; against headaches; against infertility; against the death of parents; craftsmen; expectant mothers; Poor Clares; servants; sick children; women seeking to conceive; Corbie, France; Ghent, Belgium.

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint John Joseph of the Cross

How do you think that with a bone only three fingers high we should understand the meanings of the designs of God?

– Saint John Joseph of the Cross

Saint John Joseph of the Cross' patronage: Ischia, Italy

Saint Quote of the Day: Saint Augustine of Hippo

We should be displeased with ourselves when we commit sin, for sin is displeasing to God. Sinful though we are, let us at least be like God in this, that we are displeased at what displeases Him. In some measure then you will be in harmony with God’s will, because you find displeasing in yourself what is abhorrent to your Creator.

– Saint Augustine of Hippo

Saint Augustine of Hippo's patronage: Brewers; diocese of Bridgeport, Connecticut; Cagayan de Oro, Philippines; diocese of Kalamazoo, Michigan; printers; city of Saint Augustine, Florida; diocese of Saint Augustine, Florida; sore eyes; diocese of Superior, Wisconsin; theologians; diocese of Tucson, Arizona.