April 9
“Love has a hem to her garment
That reaches the very dust.
It sweeps the stains
From the streets and lanes,
And because it can, it must.”
–Anonymous poem,
beloved by St. Teresa of Calcutta,
describing St. Fabiola
Tag Archives: Community
April 8, 2018
April 8
“Of all the movements, sensations and feelings of the soul, love is the only one in which the creature can respond to the Creator and make some sort of similar return however unequal though it be.”
–From a sermon of St. Bernard
April 7, 2018
April 7
St. Jean-Baptiste De La Salle (1651-1719)
“Adapt yourself with gracious and charitable compliance to all your neighbor’s weaknesses. In particular, make a rule to hide your feelings in many inconsequential matters.”
–St. Jean-Baptiste de la Salle to his Christian Brothers
April 6, 2018
April 6
“However severe God’s guidance may seem to us at times, it’s always the guidance of a Father who is infinitely good, wise, and kind.”
–Traditionally attributed to St. Julie Billiart
April 5, 2018
April 5
St. Vincent Ferrer (1350-1419)
“You must open the interior eyes of your soul on this light, on this heaven within you, a vast horizon stretching far beyond the realm of human activity.”
–From a letter of St. Vincent Ferrer
April 4, 2018
April 4
“None of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself.”
–Romans 14:7
