Dial-Thoughts
of the Saintsâ
“So, when are we going to start doing something
good?”
St. Philip Neri
The practices of one
saint differ from those of another, but it is the same spirit
that works in all of them.
(Sayings of the Desert Fathers)
01 April
Melito of Sardis
There is nothing to keep you from
changing your evil way of life. You are a free man.
02 April Francis of Paola
The devil has a consuming hatred against the servants of Christ. The malignant one, seeing that he cannot steal their souls, vents his most terrible wrath on them, forcing them to resist every type of temptation.
Pardon one another so that later on, you will not remember the injury. The recollection of an injury is in itself wrong. It adds to our anger, nurtures our sin, and hates what is good. It is a rusty arrow and poison for the soul. It puts all virtue to flight.
03 April
Richard of Chichester
God is faithful, and if we
serve him faithfully, he will provide for our needs.
04 April Isidore of Seville
Study as if you were to live forever. Live as if you were to die tomorrow.
The whole science of the saints consists in knowing and following the will of God.
07 April John Baptist de
la Salle
To abstain from sinful
actions is not sufficient for the fulfillment of God’s law. The very desire
of what is forbidden is evil.
We should have
frequent recourse to prayer, and persevere a long time in
it. God wishes
to be solicited. He
is not weary of hearing us.
The treasure of his graces is infinite. We can do nothing
more pleasing to him than to beg incessantly that he bestow
them upon us.
11 April Gemma Galgani
Oh,
if all were to know how beautiful Jesus is, how amiable He
is! They would all die of love.
16 April Bernadette
Always remember to see our Lord in the person of the poor. The more sickly the poor person is, the more one must love him or her.
Don’t you see that it’s just the old devil. When he comes near to you, you must spit in his eye.
Come on, my sick friend, we must all suffer for the good God. He suffered enough for us.
18 April
Alexander of Alexandria
They hanged upon a tree Him who stretches out the
earth; they transfixed Him with nails who laid firm the
foundation of the world; they circumscribed Him who
circumscribed the heavens; they bound Him who frees
sinners.
21 April Anselm of Canterbury
No one is equal to
you, O Mary, for all are either above or beneath you; above
Mary is God only, beneath Mary is all that is not God.
Every man, it is written, is grass and all the glory of man is as the flower of grass, the grass withers and its flowers fall.
27 April Zita
28 April Paul of the Cross
When you feel the assaults of passion and anger, that is the time to be silent as Jesus was silent in the midst of his humiliations and sufferings.
29 April Catherine of Siena
To sin is human, but
to persist in sin is to cooperate with the devil.