Quiet Moment

Optional Memorial of Our Lady of Lourdes O my Mother, it is to your heart that I come to lay down the anguish of my heart; it is there that I draw strength and courage. — St. Bernadette

Fifth Sunday in Ordinary Time The heart is rich when it is content, and the heart is always content when its desires are focused on God. — St. Miguel Febres Cordero

Saturday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time Blessed Virgin Mary Were we to present … the image of the purely developed character of spouse and mother as it should be according to her natural vocation, we must gaze upon the Virgin Mary. —…

Optional Memorial of St. Jerome Emiliani; St. Josephine Bakhita, Virgin Be good, love the Lord, pray for those who do not know him. What a great grace it is to know God! — St. Josephine Bakhita

Thursday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time O Mary, mirror of patience, you alone are my help in my temptations. — Bl. Bartolo Longo

Memorial of St. Paul Miki and Companions, Martyrs The only reason for my being killed is that I have taught the doctrine of Christ. I certainly did teach the doctrine of Christ. I thank God it is for this reason I die. — St. Paul Miki

Memorial of St. Agatha, Virgin and Martyr Faith depends not on intellectual but on moral conditions. — Msgr. Robert Hugh Benson

Monday of the Fourth Week in Ordinary Time An honest man is the noblest work of God. — Alexander Pope

Fourth Sunday in Ordinary Time O my children, how beautiful will that soul be in eternity, who makes frequent and good Communions! — St. John Vianney

Feast of the Presentation of the Lord Our candles … show how bright our souls should be when we go to meet Christ. — St. Sophronius