St. Peter’s repeated message to his flock was to the effect that in order not to fear death, it was needful to begin by dying to self, renouncing our will, and detaching ourselves from all things.

  And whatsoever doth not carry his cross and come after Me cannot be My disciple. –Gospel: St. Luke xiv.

  Oh, the bright day of eternity! Which no night ever obscureth, but which the Sovereign Truth always enlighteneth. A day always joyful, always secure, and never changing its state for the contrary. Oh, that this day would shine forth, and that these temporal things would come to an end!

  Ideal: There is nothing out of the ordinary to say of this man. He was not extraordinary. He simply did, as all saints have done, his ordinary duties extraordinarily well. You need do no more than that yourself to become a saint.

  Today: Why should your tasks become a routine? Certainly, you do not do your work the same two days consecutively. Don’t you try to do it just a bit better each day? Start today. You know the slogan of Gold Medal Flour: Eventually! Why not now?

  Slogan: Eventually! Why not now?

~A Character Calendar
Sister Mary Fidelis, Sister Mary Charitas
Imprimatur 1931