Quote/s of the Day – 12 July – “Month of the Most Precious Blood” – Readings: Exodus 1: 8-14, 22; Psalms 124: 1b-3, 4-6, 7-8; Matthew 10: 34 – 11: 1
“And whoever gives only
a cup of cold water to
one of these little ones to drink ,
… he shall not lose his reward.”
Matthew 10:42
“You, who think that you have a healthy hand,
beware lest it is withered by greed or by sacrilege.
Hold it out often.
Hold it out to the poor person who begs you.
Hold it out to help your neighbour,
to give protection to a widow,
to snatch from harm
one whom you see subjected to unjust insult.
Hold it out to God for your sins.”
St Ambrose (340-397)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“ Lift up and stretch out your hands,
not to heaven but to the poor…
if you lift up your hands in prayer
without sharing with the poor,
it is worth nothing.”
“… Let us be afraid, my beloved,
lest we also see the poor
and pass them by,
lest instead of Lazarus,
there be many
to accuse us hereafter.”
St John Chrysostom (347-407)
Father and Doctor of the Church
“For just as water extinguishes a fire,
just so does charity blot out our sins.”
St John of God (1495-1550)
“We must speak to them
with our hands, by giving,
before we try to speak to them
with our lips.”
St Peter Claver (1581-1654)
“Slave of the slaves”
“I am now completely convinced,
that when one does a deed of charity,
one need not worry about
where the money will come from,
it will always come!”
Blessed Frédéric Ozanam (1813–1853)
“Servant to the Poor”
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