What do you possess if you possess not God? - Saint Augustine.
Today is the feast day of Saint Buonfiglio Monaldo, one of the several Florentine founders of the Servite Order (Servants of Mary). The founders were all inspired by a vision of Mary on the feast of the Assumption to take up a life of solitude and prayer. The seven founders of the Servite Order were canonized in 1887 by Pope Leo XIII. Saint Buonfiglio Monaldo, pray for us!
What do you possess if you possess not God? - Saint Augustine.
This is my last hour of life, listen to me attentively: if I have held communication with foreigners, it has been for my religion and for my God. It is for Him that I die.
Unless a man gives himself entirely to the Cross, in a spirit of humility and self-abasement; unless he casts himself down to be trampled underfoot by all and despised, accepting injustice, contempt and mockery; unless he undergoes all these things with joy for the sake of the Lord, not claiming any kind of human reward whatsoever - glory or honor or earthly pleasures - he cannot become a true Christian - Saint Mark the Evangelist
