“True charity, in our century, consists less in giving relief than in understanding and sustaining the effort for liberation which is agitating the classes and the minority groups.” – Mother Suzanne Guillemin, D.C. – O God, purify me of all my...
You have enough to put up with from outsiders and from your duties without creating new trials within the community. These are the most distressing ones and would make of your house a little purgatory, whereas love will make of it a little paradise (V:169).
“God accepts the undertakings of one who presents things frankly just as they are.” – St. Vincent de Paul – Lord, I want to be open and honest in everything I do or say. Teach me to be truthful without subterfuge, neither embellishing nor...
“When in charity we feel we must give some spiritual counsel, we must never be so egotistical as to expect a hungry man, or one distracted by worry over the rent to listen to our words about God until we have helped to relieve his misery.” – Bl....
The duty of daughters of Our Lord who live and serve Him together and have only one same intention of making themselves pleasing in the eyes of God, is to cherish, help, and bear with one another while showing mutual respect (V:169).
