We will always be ready to render service in the way our Rule allows: to go and instruct poor country folk, hear their general confessions, reconcile them with one another, settle their disputes, and organize assistance for the poor who are sick corporally as well as...
Quote of the Day – February 24
Young plants cannot produce fruits too soon, and if they do, wise gardeners pluck them off and unburden them of them (V:361).
Quote of the Day – February 23
I am no longer good for anything but to make up for lost time and prepare myself for the judgment of God. How happy I will be if I can find favor in His sight (V:343).
Quote of the Day – February 22
How I wish that the members of the Mission who are together would do everything in conjunction with one another! This is how friends act, and how much more so should two brothers who live together (V:333).
Quote of the Day – February 21
We must humble ourselves in our poverty (V:329).
Quote of the Day – February 20
Let us give ourselves to God as best we can, expecting only trials and sufferings from our own men, with perfect assurance that they will not be lacking to us if we are faithful to seeing that the Rules and holy customs of our vocation are observed (V:324).
Quote of the Day – February 19
Consider before God whether the aversions some persons have toward the vows do not spring from human nature, which is always seeking freedom (V:321).
Quote of the Day – February 18
As far as poverty is concerned the Church instructs that, after using what they need for food and clothing, they should give the surplus to the poor (V:320).
Quote of the Day – February 17
It is a maxim of the saints that, when, after much prayer and consultation, action has been taken in an important matter involving the glory of God and the welfare of the Church, it must be believed that it is God's will that this be done (V:316).
Quote of the Day – February 16
Those whom Providence has called to be the first members of a nascent Company usually strive to put it in the state most pleasing to God (V:315).