February 7

"Charity is the sweet and holy bond which links the soul with its Creator: it binds God with man and man with God."

-Saint Catherine of Siena

February 6

"Our Lord loves you and loves you tenderly; and if He does not let you feel the sweetness of His love, it is to make you more humble and abject in your own eyes."

-St. Pio of Pietrelcina

February 5

"Jesus does not say 'no' to the authentic demands of the heart, but only a clear, loud 'yes' to life, to love, to freedom, to peace and to hope. With Him no goal is impossible and even a small act of generosity grows and can lead to change."

-St. John Paul the Great

February 4

"Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier."

-St. Teresa of Calcutta

February 3

"True love begins when nothing is looked for in return."

-St. Therese of Lisieux

February 2

"We become what we love. Who we love shapes what we become."

-St. Clare of Assisi

December 31

Eve of the Feast of Mary, Mother of God

Mother benign of our redeeming Lord,

Star of the sea and portal of the skies,

Unto thy fallen people help afford –

Fallen, but striving still anew to rise.

Thou who dids’t once, while wond’ring

worlds adored,

Bear thy Creator, Virgin then as now,

O by thy holy joy at Gabriel’s word,

Pity the sinners who before thee bow.

-Roman Breviary, Antiphon of the Blessed Virgin

December 30

"God could make a bigger world or a wider sky, but He could not raise a pure creature higher than Mary, for the dignity of Mother of God is the highest dignity that can be conferred on a creature.”

-St. Bonaventure

December 29

“The first thing which kindles ardor in learning is the greatness of the teacher. What is greater than the Mother of God? What more glorious than she whom Glory Itself chose?”

-St. Ambrose of Milan

November 27

"He will destroy death forever. The Lord God will wipe away the tears from all faces."

-Isiah 25:8