August 20
Feast of St. Bernard, Abbot and Doctor
“For when God loves, all he desires is to be loved in return; the sole purpose of his love is to be loved in the knowledge that those who love him are made happy by their love of him.”
-St. Bernard
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August 19
Feast of St. John Eudes (1601 – 1680)
“You are one with Jesus as the body is one with the head. You must, then, have one breath with him, one soul, one life, one will, one mind, one heart. And he must be your breath, heart, love, life, your all.”
-St. John Eudes
An honest and regulated life
August 18
“When one is already leading an honest and regulated life, it is far more important, in order to become a true Christian, to change the within rather than the without.”
-Francois De Salignor Fenelon
Spirituality and Action
August 17
“The distance between spirituality and social action is not as great as many believe. Scripture does not reveal a spiritual man or a secular man. It speaks only of a whole man – integrated by the salvation that Christ brings.”
-Venerable Archbishop Fulton Sheen
Be humble in this life
Feast of St. Stephen of Hungary, King (969-1038)
“Be strong lest prosperity lift you up too much or adversity cast you down. Be humble in this life, that God may raise you up in the next. Be chaste so that you may never voluntarily bring disgrace upon anyone.”
-St. Stephen of Hungary
Who is she that ascends so high, next the Heavenly King?
Harmony with God’s will
Feast of St. Maximilian Kolbe
“Obedience raises us beyond the limits of our littleness and puts us in harmony with God’s will. Obedience is the one and the only way of wisdom and prudence for us to offer glory to God.”
-St. Maximilian Kolbe
The simplicity of truth
Feast of Sts. Pontian and Hippolytus
"Do not devote your attention to the fallacies of artificial discourses, nor the vain promises of heretics, but to the venerable simplicity of unassuming truth.”
-St. Hippolytus
Exercise faith
“If the work of God could be comprehended by reason, it would no longer be wonderful, and faith would have no merit if reason provided proof.”
-Pope St. Gregory the Great
The brightness of eternal light
Feast of St. Clare
“(Jesus Christ) is the splendor of eternal glory, the brightness of eternal light, and the mirror without cloud. Queen and bride of Jesus Christ, look into that mirror daily and study well your reflection, that you may adorn yourself, mind and body, with an enveloping garment of every virtue, and thus find yourself attired in flowers and gowns befitting the daughter and most chaste bride of the king on high.”
-St. Clare of Assisi
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