April 13
Palm Sunday
Simon Peter said to him, "Master, where are you going?" Jesus answered him, "Where I am going, you cannot follow me now, though you will follow later." Peter said to him, "Master, why can I not follow you now? I will lay down my life for you." Jesus answered, "Will you lay down your life for me? Amen, amen, I say to you, the cock will not crow before you deny me three times."
-John 13:36-38
April 12
"I consider that the sufferings of this present time are not worth comparing with the glory about to be revealed to us... Likewise the Spirit helps us in our weakness; for we do not know how to pray as we ought, but that very Spirit intercedes with sighs too deep for words."
-Romans 8:18,26
April 10
"As the family goes, so goes the nation and so goes the whole world in which we live."
-Pope St. John Paul II
April 8
“It is better to be a child of God than king of the whole world.”
– St. Aloysius Gonzaga
April 7
"Who can measure the extent of My goodness? For you I descended from heaven to earth; for you I allowed Myself to be nailed to the Cross; for you I let My Sacred Heart be pierced with a lance, thus opening wide the source of mercy for you. Come, then, with trust to draw graces from this fountain."
-Jesus to St. Faustina Kowalska
April 6
“He who trusts in himself is lost. He who trusts in God can do all things.”
– St. Alphonsus Liguori
April 5
“Behold, I am the handmaid of the Lord. May it be done to me according to your word.”
-Luke 1:38
April 4
“Give something, however small, to the one in need. For it is not small to one who has nothing. Neither is it small to God, if we have given what we could.”
-St. Gregory Nazianzen
