Charles Williams : The New Christian Year

4th Saturday after the Epiphany

The highest point that may be seen in the Passion is to think and know that he is that suffered.  And in this Shewing he brought in part to mind the height and nobleness of the glorious Godhead, and wherewith the preciousness and the tenderness of the blissful Body, which be together oned; and also the lathness that is in our kind to suffer pain.  For as much as he was most tender and clean, right so he was most strong and mighty to suffer.
  And for every man's sin that shall be saved he suffered: and every man's sorrow and desolation he saw, and sorrowed for kindness and love.  For as long as he was passible he suffered for us and sorrowed for us; and now he is uprisen and no more passible, yet he suffereth with us.

Juliana of Norwich: Revelations of Divine Love.

4th Friday after the Epiphany

Moreover, I did pray all creatures (seeing how that I had offended them inasmuch as I had offended the Creator), that they would not accuse me before God.  Thus did it appear unto me that all creatures and all the saints did have compassion upon me, wherefore with a greater fire of love did I apply myself to praying unto God more than was customary.

Angela of Foligno: The Book of Divine Consolation.

This also is Thou; neither is this Thou.

Unknown.

4th Thursday after the Epiphany

There is a temporal unsatiableness of riches, and there is a spiritual unsatiableness of sin.

John Donne: Sermons.

One of the old men said, "When a man saith unto his companions, 'Forgive me,' and at the same time humbleth himself, the devils are consumed.

The Paradise of the Fathers.

4th Wednesday after the Epiphany

Conscience is the aboriginal Vicar of Christ, a prophet in its informations, a monarch in its peremptoriness, a priest in its blessings and anathemas, and even though the eternal priesthood throughout the Church should cease to be, in it the sacerdotal principle would remain and have a sway.

John Henry Newman: Letter to the Duke of Norfolk.

O Lord our God, grant us grace to desire thee with our whole heart; that, so desiring, we may seek, and seeking find thee; and so finding thee may love thee; and loving thee, may hate those sins from which thou has redeemed. Amen.

St. Anselm.

4th Tuesday after the Epiphany

I consider Jesus Christ in all persons and in ourselves: Jesus Christ as a father in His Father, Jesus Christ as a Brother in His Brethren, Jesus Christ as poor in the poor, Jesus Christ as rich in the rich, Jesus Christ as Doctor and Priest in the preists, Jesus Christ as Sovereign in princes, etc.  For by His glory He is all that is great, being God; and by His mortal life He is all that is poor and abject.  Therefore He had taken this unhappy condition, so that He could be in all persons, and the model of all conditions.

Pascal: Pensées.

3rd Monday after the Epiphany

In Adam I fell, in Adam I was cast out of Paradise, in Adam I died; how shall the Lord call me back, except He find in me Adam; guilty as I was in him, so now justified in Christ.

St. Ambrose: On the Death of Satyrus.

If you kept your body in accordance with virtue, your desires would not be of this world.

Leonardo da Vinci: Notebooks.