June 26
"How often have I thought that I may owe all the graces I've received to the prayers of a person who begged them from God for me, and whom I shall know only in heaven."
- St. Therese of Lisieux
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Being Catholic
June 25
"If you're a Catholic you believe what the Church teaches and the climate makes no difference."
- Flannery O'Connor
Prepare the Way of the Lord!
June 24
Feast of the Birth of John the Baptist
"Prepare the way of the Lord; make straight his paths."
-Matthew 3:3
The Pharisees I see
June 23
"My daughter, I see more Pharisees among the Christians than there were
around Pilate."
-St. Margaret of Cortona
What God Wills
June 22
Feast of St. Thomas More
"Do not let your mind by troubled over anything that shall happen to me in this world. Nothing can come but what God wills. And I am very sure that whatever that be, however bad it may seem, it shall indeed be best."
-St. Thomas More to his daughter
during his imprisonment
To be made straight
June 21
Feast of St. Aloysius Gonzaga
"I am but a crooked piece of iron and have come into religion to be made straight by the hammer of mortification and penance."
-St. Aloysius Gonzaga
Finding Joy in the Cross
June 20
"I could not be happy without the Cross - I could not lay it down for all the world would give. With the Cross I am happy; but without it would be lost."
--Blessed Mary of the Cross MacKillop
Safe Against Error
June 19
"The soul that journeys in the light and the truth of the Faith is safe against all error."
--St. Frumentius, Bishop
Lord, Save Us!
June 18
"Whenever any grievous temptation or vehement sorrow oppresses thee, invoke they guardian, thy leader; cry out to him and say, 'Lord, save us, lest we perish!'"
--St. Bernard
Where the Mother is, there also is the Son
June 17
"Meditate often on the sorrows of the holy Mother, sorrows inseparable from those of her beloved Son. If you seek the Cross, there you will find the Mother and where the Mother is, there also is the Son."
-St. Paul of the Cross
