If you wish to raise a lofty edifice of perfection, take humility for your foundation.
-- St. Thomas Aquinas
Vain complacency, coupled with the desire that others would speak of us and praise us, is an evil which makes us forget God and spoils our holiest actions. There is no vice more pernicious to those who would make any progress in the spiritual life.
-- St. Vincent de Paul
Monday, February 4, 2008
Sunday, February 3, 2008
Cheerfulness
Be as cheerful as you can in well-doing, for there is a certain grace in good deeds when they are done cheerfully.
-- St. Francis de Sales
The best advertisment Catholics can give for their religion is to be bright and cheery.
-- Father Bernard Vaughan, SJ
A genial man is both an apostle and an evangelist; an apostle because he brings men to Christ, an evangelist because he portrays Christ to me.
-- Father Faber
-- St. Francis de Sales
The best advertisment Catholics can give for their religion is to be bright and cheery.
-- Father Bernard Vaughan, SJ
A genial man is both an apostle and an evangelist; an apostle because he brings men to Christ, an evangelist because he portrays Christ to me.
-- Father Faber
Saturday, February 2, 2008
Thy infinite designs
I do not know what will happen to me today, O my God. All I know is that nothing will befall me but what Thou hast foreseen from all eternity. That is sufficient, O my God, to keep me in peace. I adore Thy infinite designs. I submit to them with all my heart.
-- Madame Elizabeth of France
-- Madame Elizabeth of France
Friday, February 1, 2008
The Mirror of the Monastery
St. Jane Frances, desiring that all actions of her daughters might proceed from a spirit of charity, had written upon the walls of the halls through which they most frequently passed the qualities which St. Paul gives to this sublime virtue: "Charity is patient, is kind; charity envieth not; dealeth not perversely; is not puffed up; is not ambitious; seeketh not her own; is not provoked to anger; thinketh no evil."
If it happened that one of her spiritual daughters failed in charity, she sent her to read this sentence, which she called the mirror of the monastery.
-- Lasausse, Short Meditations
If it happened that one of her spiritual daughters failed in charity, she sent her to read this sentence, which she called the mirror of the monastery.
-- Lasausse, Short Meditations
