“We should overcome our sensitiveness, paying little attention as to whether we are addressed or not, or to the degree of affability with which we are treated, but let us try to gain all hearts by cordiality and support.” – St. Louise de Marillac...
“Charity is not charity if unaccompanied by justice or if it suffers us to do more than we can reasonably perform.” – St. Vincent de Paul – Make me, O Lord, not only more sensitive to the silent cries of my poor and downtrodden brothers and...
If there are any among us who think they are in the mission to evangelize the poor people but not to alleviate their sufferings, to take of their spiritual needs but not their temporal ones, I reply that we have to help them and have them assisted in every way, by us...
The Church has no worse enemies than priests. It is through priests that heretics have prevailed, vice has reigned, and ignorance has set up its throne among the poor people (XII:76). [One of the ways St. Vincent served the poor was by reforming the clergy of his...
