September 4

"If Christ is your Leader and your Model, you ought to think as He does."

-Emil Neubert

September 3

"Your task may appear desperately difficult. Your enemies are more numerous than you; they have at their command inexhaustible resources; they are organized with a cleverness that one is almost tempted to call satanic."

-Emil Neubert

September 2

"Devotion to Mary is much like the love of a child for its mother, since after all, every devotion to Mary is love for our heavenly mother.

-Emil Neubert

September 1

"I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your offspring and hers. They will strike at your head, while you strike at their heel."

-Genesis 3:15

August 31

"Jesus has chosen us for Himself; we belong to Him. Let us be so convinced of this belonging that we do not allow anything, however small, to separate us from this belonging- from this love."

-St. Teresa of Calcutta

August 30

“When a person loves another dearly, he desires strongly to be close to the other: therefore, why be afraid to die? Death brings us to God!"

-St. Josephine Bakhita

August 29

Feast of the Martyrdom of St. John the Baptist

“His persecutors had demanded not that he should deny Christ, but only that he should keep silent about the truth. But to endure temporal agonies for the sake of the truth was not a heavy burden for such men as John; rather it was easily borne and even desirable, for he knew eternal joy would be his reward.”

-St. Bede the Venerable about St. John the Baptist

August 28

Feast of St. Augustine, Bishop and Doctor (354 – 430)

“You have created us for Yourself, and our hearts are restless till they rest in you.”

-St. Augustine

August 27

Feast of St. Monica  (331 – 387)

“One thing only I ask you, that you remember me at the altar of the Lord wherever you may be.”

-St. Monica

August 26

“Nothing half-hearted for me–

I will follow Christ with all my heart and soul.”

-St. Therese of Lisieux