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.