Those who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings (IV:493).
“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...
“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...