If it is helpful for young people to meet friends and brothers, it is essential for the Society to recruit its members...
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A Patron Saint to Imitate and Invoke • A Weekly reflection with Ozanam
A patron saint is not, in fact, a trivial insignia for a Society, such as a St. Denis or St. Nicholas for an inn. Nor...
Love is the Only Rule • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
The only rule to be considered for human actions is that of love: "Thou shalt love the Lord thy God above all things,...
The Small Pleasures of Life • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
I do not like and do not share in any way the rigorist doctrines of some Christians, who, without even realizing it, have in these matters the arrogance and false Protestant modesty, and are far from the true spirit of faith. The innocent joys were never proscribed....
Experience, the Mother of Science • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
We are convinced that the science of charitable reforms is not learned in the books or in the tribunes of the public assemblies, but by going up to the hovels of the poor, sitting at their bedhead, suffering the cold they suffer, getting, with the outpouring of a...
Weaving God’s Plan • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
We are, all of us, like the weavers of the Gobelins, who, following out the pattern of an unknown artist, endeavor to match the threads of divers colors on the wrong side of the woof, and do not see the result of their labor. It is only when the texture is complete...
Learning from Our Children and Our Fathers • A Weekly Reflection with Ozanam
What a moment was that, when I heard the last cry of my beloved wife and the first cry of my daughter, when I saw that creature, small but immortal, that God put in my hands, that made me feel great tenderness and also so many obligations! With what impatience I...
