“It is well to suffer patiently and await the hour of God in the most trying affairs.” – St. Louise de Marillac – Lord, is it so hard for me to “endure patiently” when what I have worked so hard to build is in danger of failing. At...
How I fear large numbers and expansion. What reason we have to praise God for allowing us to honor the small number of the disciples of His Son (I:304).
“Mortification in eating is the alphabet of a spiritual life; and they who do not know how to subdue their gluttony will find it no easy matter to triumph over other vices which are much more difficult to conquer.” – St. Vincent de Paul –...
We are like the servants of the centurion in the gospel with regard to bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it (I:297).
