Quiet Moment

Pentecost Sunday A gift is freely given, and expects no return. Its reason is love. What is first given is love; that is the first gift. The Holy Ghost comes forth as the substance of love, and Gift is his proper name. — St. Thomas Aquinas

Saturday of the Seventh Week of Easter Prudence must precede every action that we undertake; for, if prudence be wanting, there is nothing, however good it may seem, which is not turned into evil. — St. Basil the Great

Optional Memorial of St. John I, Pope and Martyr To do the will of God man must despise his own: The more he dies to himself, the more he will live to God. — St. Peter Claver

Thursday of the Seventh Week of Easter The humble man receives praise the way a clean window takes the light of the sun. The truer and more intense the light is, the less you see of the glass. — Thomas Merton

Wednesday of the Seventh Week of Easter Love is not blind; that is the last thing it is. Love is bound; and the more it is bound the less it is blind. — G.K. Chesterton

Optional Memorial of St. Isidore He who labors as he prays lifts his heart to God with his hands. — St. Bernard

Feast of St. Matthias, Apostle O glorious St. Matthias … you were selected by the twofold sign of the uprightness of your life and the call of the Holy Spirit. Obtain for us the grace to practice the same uprightness of life and to be…

Seventh Sunday of Easter/The Ascension of the Lord If, then, you are looking for the way by which you should go, take Christ, because he himself is the way. — St. Thomas Aquinas

Optional Memorial of Sts. Nereus and Achilleus, Martyrs; St. Pancras, Martyr The martyrs desired death, not to fly labor, but to attain their end. And why did they not fear death, from which man so naturally shrinks? Because they had…

Friday of the Sixth Week of Easter A person loses nothing by living generously, nobly, courteously and with a royal, just, and reasonable heart. — St. Francis de Sales