“It requires fortitude to be silent concerning personal ills and fatigue.” – St. Vincent de Paul – When I am tempted to relate every detail about my personal problems, Lord, help me to keep them to myself, realizing that others must deal with...
God has been pleased to compose this Little Company of persons of lowly condition and average intelligence. By his mercy, however, they have good will, which, by His grace, is increasing in them daily (V:267).
Writing to encourage establishment of conferences in Siena: “You have rich children, O My Father, what a useful and beneficial lesson and how strengthening to enervated hearts to show them the poor; that is, to show them Jesus Christ not only in images painted...
Life is short; its end is soon in view and God’s judgment is fearsome to those leaving this life, of whom it is said: “They have not fulfilled their obligations; that is why the Lord has placed them among those who commit iniquity” (V:257).
