Times of Adversity

July 1

“Consider it all joy, my brothers, when you encounter various trials, for you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance.  And let perseverance be perfect, so that you may be perfect and complete, lacking in nothing.”
-James 1:2-4

St. Peter and St. Paul

June 29
Feast of Sts. Peter and Paul, Apostles
“Both apostles share the same feast day, for these two were one; and even though they suffered on different days, they were as one. Peter went first, and Paul followed. And so we celebrate this day made holy for us by the apostle’s blood.”
 -St. Augustine

The Mother of God


June 27

Feast of St. Cyril of Alexandria , Bishop (D. 444)
That anyone could doubt the right of the holy Virgin to be called the Mother of God fills me with astonishment. Surely she must be the Mother of God if our Lord Jesus Christ is God, and she gave birth to him! Our Lord’s disciples may not have used those exact words, but they delivered to us the belief those words enshrine, and this has also been taught us by the holy fathers.
– St. Cyril of Alexandria

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