"Though the doctor is a member of the staff, he has need of your intelligent and devoted cooperation." - St. Vincent de Paul - Heavenly Father, it is so important in this day and age for physicians and staff to work as a team. Keep me mindful that the input of all...

"Oh! How beautiful and consoling the name of Mary is!" - St. Catherine Laboure - Mary, you are always ready to obtain the graces I need, if I but ask for them. Keep me faithful to my commitments and teach me how to live a humble, simple life.

"It is from your hands that Our Lord in the person of the sick seeks relief." - St. Vincent de Paul - Lord, help me to make time today to serve you in those who are most in need of encouragement or assistance.

"Come now, let us engage ourselves with renewed love to serve the poor, and let us even seek out the poorest and most abandoned of all." - St. Vincent de Paul - Fill me Lord with fresh enthusiasm for my service to your poor. Keep me faithful to the promises I have...

"When our strength is gone, God makes us realize our helplessness which obliges us to ask him to send good laborers into his vineyard." - St. Vincent de Paul - Lord, when I feel weak and powerless, come and be my strength!

"Wherever we may be, God is with us, so we must be always joyful." - St. Louise de Marillac - Lord, may your abiding presence be a source of peace and joy to me and to those I meet today.

"This is true contentment - to hope for nothing, desire nothing, expect nothing." - St. Elizabeth Ann Seton - Lord, true contentment can only come from being satisfied with who I am and with what you have chosen to gift me. May I never seek after anything that will...

"I am asking Our Lord to be Himself, your strength and your life, as He is to all who nourish themselves with his love." - St. Vincent de Paul - My soul as well as my body needs to be nourished on a regular basis. As 'food' for my soul I will set aside some time each...

"Like thrifty housekeepers, we should turn all things to real profit; let us not seek our consolation in creatures nor in self-gratifications, but let us go straight to God by the path of interior and exterior mortification, traced out for us by his Divine Son." - St....

"You will practice charity better by preserving yourself to serve your neighbor for a long time than by wearing yourself out in a short time over the salvation of a few." - St. Vincent de Paul - Dear Father, guide me when I am tempted to neglect my health and fail to...