A Year with the Saints

A Year with the Saints  (1891) 

An unknown Italian, translated by A member of the Order of Mercy

• Translator's Preface
• January: Perfection. Be ye perfect as your Heavenly Father is perfect.----Matt. 5:48
• February: Humility. Whoever humbleth himself, shall be exalted.----Lk. 14:11
• March: Mortification. Whoever will come after Me, let him deny himself.----Matt. 16:24
• April: Patience. Whoever taketh not up his cross and followeth Me, is not worthy of Me.----Matt. 10:38
• May: Meekness. Blessed are the meek, for they shall possess the earth.----Matt. 5:4
• June: Obedience. All things whatsoever that they command you, observe and do.----Matt. 23:3
• July: Simplicity. Be simple as doves.----Matt. 10:16
• August: Diligence. He did all things well.----Mark 7:37
• September: Prayer. Oportet semper oras et non deficere----We must always pray, and not faint.----Luke 18:1
• October: Confidence. Ecce ego vobiscum sum----Behold I am with you.----Matt. 28:20
• November: Charity. This is the first and greatest commandment: Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with thy whole heart, but the second is like unto it: Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.----Matt. 22:38
• December: Union. Qui manet in charitate, in Deo manet, et Deus in eo----Who abideth in charity, abideth in God, and God in him.----1 John 4:16