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February 18, 2013

You say that often you don’t know how to keep from speaking. You must try to learn this. It is great wisdom to know how to keep silence when the occasion requires it. Get into the habit of always speaking in a low voice. You know very well that silence and recollection are two means of becoming interior.

You will find silence a very useful, even a very necessary virtue, if you are to adore God, serve him in spirit and in truth, resist temptations and save yourself from falling into sin.

Always remain silent when others annoy you, and let God alone be the witness of your innocence.

You must learn how to be silent and to speak only when necessary, so that you may not fall into the habit of excessive talking. If you cannot speak without justifying yourself, remain completely silent.

February 11, 2013

Those who teach are only God’s voice. The word which makes God known to those whom they instruct must come from him. It is he who speaks in teachers when they explain him and what is related to him. This is why St. Peter says, if any speak, let it always be clear that God is speaking by their mouth.

February 4, 2013

There are many persons in religious communities who could be asked with more surprise and more justice than those in the Gospel who were standing idle in the market place: Why have you stayed here all the day doing nothing? These persons have consecrated themselves to God and profess to be striving toward the perfection proper to their state, yet they remain in it without making any progress in virtue, especially the virtue of obedience.

So, when it happens that they are given an order they do not expect, they cannot accept it; they say this is too much for them and they are not able to put up with such a trial. They are prepared to carry out orders only on certain conditions, or only when they are in good humor.

It is extremely important that those who profess to practise the virtue of obedience be given the chance to do so every day.

January 28, 2013

St. Thomas was one of the greatest Doctors of the Church, and he enlightened it by the quite extraordinary and almost miraculous learning God gave him. In all the difficulties he met while studying or writing, he had recourse to prayer, and when this did not suffice to give him an understanding of what he wanted to know he added fasting. It was by these means that he acquired such great knowledge and became a miracle of learning.

The admirable thing is that, although so learned, he had no desire to be esteemed by others. Ah! how rare it is to find a man who excels in anything, who does not on that account have a higher opinion of himself.

It is by these three means - I mean books, prayer, mortification - that God wishes you to instruct yourselves in your state about what you need to know and teach others.

January 21, 2013

Never read through curiosity, and do not read hurriedly to get through a book quickly. Stop from time to time to relish your reading. Reflect on and examine yourself about what prevents you from practicing what you read.

Read your spiritual book as if it were a letter sent by Jesus Christ himself to make known to you his holy will.

As it is neither the books we read nor the reasons we hear which of themselves touch our conscience, but rather God who uses these means, we must pray for the grace to draw from them the fruit which God desires to communicate to us.

January 14, 2013

But, you say, you are not prepared to receive Communion because your spirit is in turmoil or because you are experiencing severe temptation. Do you not know that turmoil and temptations, far from making you unfit to receive Communion do nothing of the sort? On the contrary, the more anxiety and temptation you experience, the more you should have recourse to Communion, which is a sure remedy to ease your anxiety and weaken your temptations.

Perhaps you may say at other times that you do not receive Communion because you cannot occupy yourself with God. You feel completely dry; your mind is filled with evil or useless thoughts.

Beg Jesus Christ living in you to make up for your powerlessness, and to make thanksgiving in you and for you. Do not, then, listen any further to what your spirit may suggest to dispense you from receiving Communion.

January 7, 2013

You should pay attention to your behavior in what concerns not only yourself but others also. For it is impossible to please God if you do not live amicably with others. Nor will you have peace of soul unless you show consideration for those for whom you ought to set a good example.

Take care never to get into arguments with anybody, for in doing so you can offend against charity, which should be outstanding among you. Be sure to be warmly affable toward everyone, to speak and to answer everyone with a great gentleness and deference, keeping in mind the way Our Lord spoke and replied to others, even when he was most harshly treated.

So never rebuff anyone; that gives very bad example. On the contrary, speak politely, which is in keeping with the Spirit of God. Let humility and gentleness be always evident in what you say. “A soft answer,” says the wise man “breaks down the hardest nature.”

January 1, 2013

Faith is the way by which God wishes to lead you to himself and by following this way you will please him most. Is it not enough for you to know God alone? Surely this is of more value than all the other knowledge of the most learned men. The Most Blessed Virgin lived her whole life by the spirit of faith, and it is this spirit that God wants you to have. This is why you would derive much benefit from asking her in prayer to lead you to Our Lord along this way.

December 17, 2012

Jesus did not come so much to teach us the holy truths of Christian morality as to engage us to practise them faithfully.

Still it is common enough to see Christians and even members of religious communities, who do not accept these practical truths and who contradict them in their hearts, sometimes even in their external conduct, as when someone tells them that on Judgement Day they have to account for a useless word, that we must pray without ceasing, that we must enter heaven through the narrow gate and that there is a command addressed to them to love their enemies, to pray to God for those who persecute them and to do good to those who hate them.

How many are there who believe that these teachings are merely counsels of perfection? Yet Jesus Christ taught that they were necessary practices and the way to achieve salvation. Take care not to fall into this gross error, which might lead you astray from the true path to heaven.

December 10, 2012

Although it is not recommended to be as stiff as a statue in school, neither is it good to be too fidgety or too flustered. The two extremes must be avoided. The one causes teachers not to be sufficiently vigilant and to lack firmness; the other robs them of all authority and brings down on them the contempt of students.

New teachers must learn to control a natural tendency to be hasty and too quick to react. They must not at every moment modify their expression, their posture, their position, constantly turning the head from side to side; unable to keep the same position for a moment.

December 3, 2012

It is unbelievable how many souls St. Francis converted to God, once he had filled himself with the spirit of God before going off to preach the holy Gospel. It is estimated that he converted several hundred thousand in the Indies and in Japan. He baptised several princes and even several kings. He spent his time preaching, catechising, confessing, and visiting hospitals.

Nothing, no matter how humble it was, was beneath him when it was a question of converting souls. This saint had especially such a great zeal for the instruction of children, that he went about in the streets ringing, a little bell to call them to catechism.

Do you wish to convert your disciples and easily win them over to God? The more you make yourself little, the more you will touch the hearts of those whom you instruct, and to engage them to live as true Christians.

November 26, 2012

Why, do you think, did Jesus Christ praise St. John the Baptist so highly? It was to lead the people to accept his teaching, and to make them understand that what John had said about himself was true; that St. John had been sent to prepare their hearts to receive Jesus Christ himself and to profit by his teachings. This saint began by living a life of seclusion, prayer, and penance, to practise what he wanted to teach others, and thus to dispose his own heart to receive the fullness of the Spirit of God.

Because you have to prepare the hearts of others for the coming of Jesus Christ, you must first of all dispose your own hearts to be entirely filled with zeal, in order to render your words effective in those whom you instruct.

November 19, 2012

The manner in which Jesus Christ says we should love God requires of us a great courage.

To love God with all your heart and with all your soul is truly to sacrifice your life for God, to spend it only for him. This is what you can do in your profession and your work, not being concerned whether you die in a few years, provided you save yourself and win souls for God.

They will help you to rise to heaven because you have helped them procure admittance there, have taught them how to enter and have helped them take all possible means of doing so.

God has put us in this world only for himself; he thinks constantly of us and has given us a mind that can think of him. Jesus Christ, then has reason to say that we must love God with all our minds.

Nothing shows better that we love another person than when we cannot help thinking about that person. How happy you would be if all your thoughts tended only to God. Then you would really have found your paradise in this world.

November 12, 2012

What are your dispositions and with what purity of heart and intention do you go to Holy Communion?

You can easily make the four following considerations before approaching the holy table, to place your heart in the condition in which it ought to be for so holy an action.

The first is, “What am I about to do?” The second is, “Who am I compared with almighty God?” The third is, “Why do I wish to approach the altar to receive him?” The fourth is, “How, and for what reason, should I receive Holy Communion to day?”

Do you approach the holy table with the same dispositions you would wish to have on entering heaven? Surely we should not have less respect in receiving Jesus Christ than in being received by him.

November 5, 2012

Prayer, says St. Chrysostom, is a divine medicine which drives out of our hearts all the malice it finds there and fills them with all justice.

This is why if we wish to deliver ourselves from sin completely, we cannot do anything better than to devote ourselves to prayer.

In fact, no matter how many sins a person who loves prayer commits, he still has, even in the midst of a very great disordered life, a quick and easy recourse, which is prayer, in order to obtain the grace of repentance and pardon.

Ask God, then, to grant you a pure heart that has an aversion not only for the most grievous sins, but also for whatever can stain your conscience.

October 29, 2012

I believe you, my God, became a child for love of me. You were born in a stable in the dead of winter. You lay on hay and straw. Your love for me reduced you to such poverty.

You could have been born in an abundance of riches and honours and in the most magnificent palace. At your birth you could have taken possession of the kingdoms of the world, because they belonged to you. But you preferred not to profit from these rights.

Your infinite wisdom judged that it was much more to my advantage to give me the example of the life which I must lead, the road which I must follow to reach true glory, to enjoy spiritual and heavenly wealth.

I do this by detachment from the perishable goods of the earth and of false and ephemeral honours.

You know, Lord, how my proud, avaricious, and sensual nature inclines me to these things.

October 22, 2012

Now is the time for little speech and much action. Let your aim be to become very silent and very humble and to apply yourself to prayer.

To do this you need little thinking, little desiring and little understanding; yet it is the way to live at peace.

You will find silence very useful, even a very necessary virtue, if you are to adore God, serve him in spirit and in truth and resist temptations.

You must learn how to be silent and to speak only when necessary. Always remain silent when others annoy you, and let God alone be the witness of your innocence.

Take care never to justify yourself, but, on the contrary, admit that you were wrong, without of course telling an untruth.

October 15, 2012

You should be guided in what you do by your rules, not by those who transgress them. Let people think what they wish of you, and do not be troubled, provided you are doing what you ought.

Slackness and rationalizing will lead you into many faults. From now on, look on your rules as an explanation and an application of what is contained in the Gospels. The spirit of faith will lead you to give practical application to this frame of mind.

In all matters I advise you to act as being in the presence of God and not to please others. To take pains that others have nothing to reproach you with and not to be concerned about God is to act as a hypocrite, and not as a Christian.

October 8, 2012

Take a short recreation every day so that you may afterwards resume your duties with greater affection and application. Look upon this relaxation as similar to that which our Lord sometimes accorded his Apostles. Be careful not to become dissipated and do not lose sight of the presence of God. Does your tongue cause you some disquietude of conscience during this time? Be moderate in your conduct and observe discretion in your words.

October 1, 2012

Your work does not consist in making your disciples to be Christians, but in helping them to be true Christians. It would avail them little to have received baptism if they did not live according to the Christian spirit. To give this spirit to others you have to possess it well yourself. Recognise what this requires of you. It is without doubt to put into practice the holy Gospel.

September 24, 2012

When giving an opinion, you must be careful not to maintain it stubbornly, for you should not be so sure of your ideas as to think them incontrovertible. It would also be very unseemly to argue in order to make your opinions prevail because you should not be so firmly attached to your ideas that you refuse to yield to those of others.

You should be very careful not to grow angry or abusive in order to force others to adopt your point of view. It is neither courteous nor wise to use emotion to make others accept your position as reasonable. Nor should you ever blame others or ridicule what they have said.

You show the characteristic of a well-mannered person when you esteem and praise the ideas of others.

September 17, 2012

Be sure to be warmly affable toward everyone, to speak to and to answer everyone with a very great gentleness and deference, keeping in mind the way Our Lord spoke and replied to others, even when he was most harshly treated.

September 10, 2012

I do not fail, nor shall I fail, to pray to God for you, my very dear Brother, that he may keep you in your vocation. You will give me great pleasure if you also pray for me. The affection with which you write to me touches me very much. I am very grateful for the concern you have for my health. Please God he will give you the best of health and make you truly holy.

September 3, 2012

St. Gregory suffered through his life with extreme patience. The only remedy he used in all his suffering was recourse to prayer; in this he found great support.

When elected Pope, he immediately took to flight, but finally accepted the responsibility despite his feelings. Nevertheless, with unflagging zeal, despite his great infirmities, he worked to procure the good of the Church by his preaching, by his writings, and by his constant solicitude.

After he became Pope, he sent out evangelical labourers to preach the faith to unbelievers and to instruct them in our religion. By such conduct he showed that it was only his humility that made him flee the papacy, because once he had accepted it, his zeal led him to accomplish great things for the cause of religion.

August 27, 2012

Since God has called you to your ministry in order to procure his glory and to give children the spirit of wisdom, you will give an account of how well you have instructed those who have been under your guidance.

You will give account to God whether you have been exact to teach catechism; whether you have not neglected some students because they were the slowest, perhaps also the poorest; and whether you did not show favouritism toward others because they were rich, or pleasant, or naturally possessing more lovable qualities than the others.

August 20, 2012

St. Bernard was brought up so well by his mother that in a short time he acquired a solid piety, and displayed all sorts of virtues. These made him known through the whole Church, winning for him the respect of everyone. So high was the esteem he enjoyed that as Abbot of Clairvaux he was followed by a great crowd of people who came to place themselves under his direction.

This made him so venerated by bishops, princes and the people that no one undertook any important project without coming to him for his advice and judgment. The more he tried to keep hidden, the more people came to him.

Virtue cannot hide. When it is seen, it draws all hearts. The example it gives makes such a strong impression that those who see it, or hear about it, are led to imitate it.

August 13, 2012

The zeal shown by St. Cassian cannot be praised too much. The Emperor Julian the Apostate had forbidden any Catholic to teach youth. St. Cassian nonetheless thought that he could not take on a work more useful for the Church than that of a schoolteacher. He devoted himself with all possible care to instruct children, and while teaching them reading and writing, he trained them in piety.

The emperor, for his part, was working to destroy religion by destroying schools, and this saint was trying to establish religion through the education of the young.

How often it happens that work which people consider lowly produces much more good than the most brilliant work. Look upon your work as one of the
most important and most excellent in the Church, for it is one most able to strengthen it by giving it a solid foundation.

August 6, 2012

In today’s Gospel Jesus Christ proposes to us an example of Charity. Charity is kind. Indeed, it is not by scolding, murmuring, complaining about or quarreling that we show our love and union. It is by speaking in a kind and affable way. A kind word, says the wise man, turns away wrath, while a harsh reply stirs up fury.

For this reason Our Lord said to his apostles: Blessed are those who show kindness toward others, for they shall possess the land. This means the whole earth, because those who possess the hearts of others do possess the whole earth, which is what persons whose temperament is kind and moderate easily achieve. They gain entry so well into the hearts of those with whom they speak and relate that they win them over little by little.

July 30, 2012

Apply yourself often to remember the presence of God. Look upon this practice as your greatest happiness. Your recollection and self-control should be great enough for you to achieve this. They will be for you a means of overcoming yourself in times of temptation by inspiring you to have continually in mind the will of God.

July 23, 2012

Let people think what they wish of you, and do not be troubled, provided you are doing what you ought.

I advise you to act as being in the presence of God and not to please others, because you know that to take pains that others have nothing to reproach you with and not to be concerned about God is to act as a Pharisee and a hypocrite, and not as a Christian.

July 16, 2012

To speak prudently you must consider whether it is the proper time for speaking or for remaining silent. It is imprudent and thoughtless for you to talk when you are prompted by just the mere desire to talk.

In order to let us know in a few words who the people are who speak with wisdom and prudence and who those are who speak imprudently, the Wise Man gives us this admirable rule: “the hearts of fools are in their mouths, and the mouths of the wise are in their hearts” (Eccl 21:26).

July 9, 2012

Jesus Christ assures us explicitly that all that we ask for we shall receive. Prayer has this efficacy of itself; this is precisely what God promises us. The more we ask of him, the more he gives, because he takes great delight in granting our prayers.

Whatsoever you ask in prayer with faith, says Jesus Christ, you will receive. He says all whatsoever, and he makes no exceptions. Would anyone believe that faith would have such an effect if the Son of God, who is truth itself, had not assured us of this?

July 2, 2012

Let your faith be an active faith, enlivened by charity and detaching you from all things. In other words you should take great care to be always ready to lose all rather than God; to abandon all rather than the divine will; and to sacrifice all honor, health, and life itself for God’s glory and interests.

June 25, 2012

The children who come to you either have not had any instruction or, if they have received some good lessons, bad companions or their own bad habits have prevented them from benefiting. God sends them to you so that you may give them the spirit of Christianity and educate them according to the maxims of the Gospel.

You have reason to be ashamed if you have to teach these children what you do not know yourself or exhort them to practice what you do not do yourself. Ask God, then, to give you what you need in full measure, namely, the Christian spirit and deep religious convictions.

June 18, 2012

How shall I dare to be in the presence of God without respect and without reverence! What! If the presence of a king restrains all the movements of the body and of the soul in such a way that one does not make a single one without circumspection, out of respect for the dignity and personality of the king, shall we forget the worship and reverence due to God in whose presence we always are?

Give me the grace that the thought of your holy presence may occupy me always, so that, being always in your holy presence, I may not pass a single moment without thinking of you.

une 11, 2012

When this saint was put to the work of preaching, it became apparent that God had placed his holy word in his mouth. For when he preached all his hearers were filled with admiration, and he brought about surprising conversions. He succeeded so well in this ministry because he had prepared himself for it by seclusion and prayer.

You need to live in seclusion in order to learn the knowledge of salvation which you have to teach others. In that way you must learn how to speak about God, and be able to speak about him effectively.

June 4, 2012

We can make an act of faith in the presence of Our Lord in the church in the Most Blessed Sacrament. It is here, truly, that Jesus makes his dwelling place. I must consider myself happy to be there often, to keep you company and to fulfill my obligations to you. Although you may be veiled from my eyes, yet you are there as great, as powerful, as adorable, as lovable as you are in heaven. Because you are the same God and because you are equally present in both places.

May 28, 2012

Let us admire the promptness with which the Blessed Virgin went to visit her cousin St. Elizabeth as soon as she learned the will of God. Her promptness drew down God’s blessings on her visit. We should consider ourselves blessed when we are visited by God through his inspirations.

Since you have the honor of being visited by God every day in prayer and often by Jesus in Holy Communion, make sure that their visits to you are not useless.

May 21, 2012

It is this sacrament and the reception of the Eucharist that will support you in your difficulties, and you should regard it as a great happiness to receive the Eucharist frequently. You should take steps to correct yourself of your faults, but it would be an even greater fault not to receive Communion.

May 14, 2012

This holy disciple was admitted among the number of the apostles only after a common prayer was recited publicly by St. Peter in the name of all the apostles and disciples who were praying together in the same place.

This shows us that in all we do for the glory of God, we should undertake nothing without praying to ask God for the light and grace we need to succeed in whatever we undertake for him.

May 7, 2012

When you find the practice of virtue difficult, you must strive to make it become easy by applying yourself to prayer.

Prayer, says St. Chrysostom, is a divine medicine which drives out of our hearts all the malice it finds there and fills them with all justice.

This is why, if we wish to deliver ourselves from sin, we cannot do anything better than to devote ourselves to prayer.

April 30, 2012

Ask and you shall receive. Since God wants to give us his grace, he has provided us with a sure means to obtain them, namely, prayer.

We are so subject to temptation that as Job says, our life is a constant temptation. This made St. Peter say that the demon, our enemy, like a roaring lion, is always roaming around us seeking endlessly some way to devour us. It is prayer that puts us in a position to resist him.

April 23, 2012

You share in the ministry of the Guardian Angels by making known to children the truths of the Gospel, which you have been chosen by God to announce.

Your zeal must go so far in this that in order to achieve it, you are ready to give your very life, so dear to you are the children entrusted to you.

It is your duty, then, to admonish the unruly, and to do this in such a way that they give up their former way of life; you must rouse up those who lack courage, support the weak, and be patient toward all.

April 16, 2012

Decorum requires that as a Christian you should never utter a single word which is contrary to the truth or to sincerity, or which shows disrespect for God or a lack of charity for your neighbor.

April 9, 2012

Be convinced that it is a great misfortune not to experience any temptation, because this is a sign that you do not overcome yourself in any way.

April 2, 2012

Each mystery, has a spirit which is special to it.

The spirit of the mystery of the Incarnation, for example, is charity, since it is through charity and love for us that the eternal Father has given us his only Son, that the Son himself has become incarnate, and that the Holy Spirit has brought about this mystery.

The Spirit of the mystery of the Birth of Our Lord is the spirit of childhood. The Son of God having come into this world, as St. John says, has given to all who have received him, the power of becoming children of God.

March 26, 2012

Jesus Christ was not content with having a lifelong desire to die for us. When he saw the time of his death approaching, he testified to his joy. This is what made him say to the apostles when he celebrated the Last Passover with them. He knew that this was to be the last meal he would eat with his apostles before suffering and dying for us.

March 19, 2012

Teachers will always use a moderate tone when they give any instructions, as well as on all other occasions when they need to speak to all of the students together. They will never speak either to any student in particular or to all in general until they have carefully thought about what they have to say and unless they consider it necessary.

March 12, 2012

You realize how important it is to follow the inspirations that come to you from God. They are precious and it is to them that God ordinarily attaches his graces. He does not mean for them to be given to you for no purpose. So those inspirations that God gives us are to be valued, and he grants his graces only insofar as we are faithful in following them.

March 5, 2012

When we find ourselves in some particular and extraordinary need, or in some violent temptation, it is a great and powerful means, in this need, and to conquer the temptation by which we are strongly assailed, to address ourselves to Our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament.

Feb. 27, 2012

Since you are ambassadors and ministers of Jesus Christ in the work that you do, you must act as representing Jesus Christ himself. He wants your disciples to see him in you and receive your instructions as if he were giving them to them. They must be convinced that your instructions are the truth of Jesus Christ, who speaks with your mouth, that it is only in his name that you teach, and that it is he who has given you authority over them.

Feb. 20, 2012

The effect that the reception of the ashes should produce in you is to make penance a part of all your behaviour, to make you fast with your eyes, your tongue, and your heart:

·your eyes, by great recollection;

·your tongue, by an exact silence,

·your heart, by renouncing all thoughts which might draw you away from communing with God.

Feb 13, 2012

Those who teach are only God’s voice. The word which makes God known to those whom they instruct must come from him. It is he who speaks in teachers when they explain him and what is related to him. This is why St. Peter says, if any speak, let it always be clear that God is speaking by their mouth.

Feb. 6, 2012

Take care never to let anything harsh be seen in your appearance; you should rather manifest wisdom, kindness, and good will.

Jan. 30, 2012

If we have esteem for worldly things, it should only be in so far as they relate to God, because we are rightly convinced that God is present in all things and that all things are nothing except in so far as God dwells in them. 

Jan. 23, 2012

To live in a community that is faithful to the Rule is to live in the boat with Jesus and his disciples. There they are protected from the waves of the stormy sea of this world. Still, they are not entirely safe from all difficulties and temptations. Of these, the most dangerous and most hurtful are those which lead us to fail in obedience, or to obey in a faulty manner.

Jan. 16, 2012

The more anxiety and temptation you experience, the more you should have recourse to Communion, which is a sure remedy to ease your anxiety and weaken your temptations.

Jan. 9, 2012

Teachers: You will do well to work hard at your lessons in religious instruction. To give them well, you must begin courageously, even giving them poorly, for no one does anything well the first time. As long as you teach your students to the best of your ability, you can have a clear conscience in the matter.

Jan. 2, 2012

Bad companions are so dangerous, especially in youth, that there is nothing to which you should pay more attention than to prevent those you teach from keeping such company. Nor is there anything you should recommend more strongly to them than to become close friends with the best of their companions, the most pious and the best behaved. 

Dec. 12, 2011

We make an act of adoration by recognising God as our Creator and sovereign Lord. And by keeping ourselves in a profound respect in His holy presence, conscious of our baseness and even of our nothingness, of our dependence on God, of our unworthiness to enjoy the advantage and happiness of His holy presence.

Dec. 5, 2011

You are under the obligation to instruct the children of the poor. You should, therefore, cultivate a very special tenderness for them and supply their spiritual needs as far as you are able.

Nov. 29, 2011

The main reason why the just themselves will fear while awaiting the Last Judgement is that we will have to give an account not only of the idle words we have spoken, but even of the good works we have performed. God will probe them to see if they were truly good, and whether anything defective can be found in them.

Who of us, then, will not fear God’s Judgment? Let us constantly strive to free ourselves of our defects, for we cannot know either the day or the hour when we shall die. Those whose life span is so uncertain should not delay to take the steps needed to insure their salvation.

Nov. 14, 2011

Consider that the fruit you will derive from holy Mass will depend very must on the dispositions with which you assist at it. Purity of heart and of the affections is the best disposition we can bring to this action.

Oct. 24, 2011

There are many people who demand miracles and prodigies from themselves. They would like to do everything well and without reproach. But they do not want to take the trouble to attain this.

Whenever they have to do violence to themselves to realize their grand plan, they lose breath, so to speak, at the first step they take in the path of perfection. They would want God to carry them without their having to advance. That certainly would be a great miracle.

Oct. 17, 2011

Spoken words pass on and touch hearts only once and momentarily, but written words which last forever are able to convert a great number of souls.