Quiet Moment

Thirtieth Sunday in Ordinary Time I wept at the beauty of your hymns and canticles, and was powerfully moved by the sweet sound of your Church’s singing. Those sounds flowed into my ears, and the truth streamed into my heart: so that my…

Saturday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Blessed Virgin Mary Only after the last judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children. — St. John Vianney

Friday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time The spiritual virtue of a sacrament is like light: Although it passes among the impure, it is not polluted. — St. Augustine

Thursday of the Twenty-ninth Week in Ordinary Time Truly matters in the world are in a bad state; but if you and I begin in earnest to reform ourselves, a really good beginning will have been made. — St. Peter of Alcantara

Optional Memorial of St. Anthony Mary Claret, Bishop She moves and touches me so deeply that every time I read her life, I have to hold the book in one hand and a handkerchief in the other to staunch the tears that it makes me shed…

Optional Memorial of St. John of Capistrano, Priest Those who are called to the table of the Lord must glow with the brightness that comes from the good example of a praiseworthy and blameless life. — St. John of Capistrano

Optional Memorial of St. John Paul II, Pope By her words and her silence, the Virgin Mary stands before us as a model for our pilgrim way. — St. John Paul II

Twenty-ninth Sunday in Ordinary Time It is not the actual physical exertion that counts toward a man’s progress, nor the nature of the task, but the spirit of faith with which it is undertaken. — St. Francis Xavier

Memorial of Sts. John de Brébeuf and Isaac Jogues, Priests, and Companions, Martyrs What I suffered is known only to the one for whose love and in whose cause it is pleasing and glorious to suffer. — St. Isaac Jogues

Feast of St. Luke, Evangelist A letter from our fatherland. — St. Augustine, on holy Scripture