http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?fid4ct=41596 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT http://backend.userland.com/rss RapidFeeds v0.1 -- http://www.rapidfeeds.com Our Lord wants us to serve Him with common sense and the opposite is called indiscreet zeal (I:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7050739 Sat, 25 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7049965 Fri, 24 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT Our Lord will perhaps draw more glory from your submission than from all the good you could do (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7049143 Thu, 23 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT It is very difficult to do any good without conflict (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7048322 Wed, 22 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT You belong to Our Lord and His holy Mother; cling to them and to the state in which they have placed you (I:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7047320 Tue, 21 May 2013 00:00:02 EDT May God be pleased to give you His spirit and the grace to act in this same spirit and to bear your troubles in the way He bore his (I:65). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7046273 Mon, 20 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT I pray that His Divine Goodness may accompany you, be your consolation along the way, your shade against the heat of the sun, your shelter in rain and cold, your soft bed in your weariness, your strength in your toil and finally, that He may bring you back in perfect health and filled with good works (I:65). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7045752 Sun, 19 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT What great hidden treasures there are in holy Providence and how marvelously Our Lord is honored by those who follow it (I:59). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7045121 Sat, 18 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT Try to live content among your reasons for discontent and always honor the inactivity and unknown condition of the Son of God (I:54). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7044405 Fri, 17 May 2013 00:00:02 EDT May you be forever a beautiful tree of life bringing forth fruits of love (I:46). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7043608 Thu, 16 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT Their first and foremost purpose will be to strive for their own perfection and to devote themselves entirely to country people (I:42). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7042713 Wed, 15 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT They go from town to town, passing from village to village, preaching sermons and exhortation to the people (I:41). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7041710 Tue, 14 May 2013 00:00:08 EDT The people of the countryside, oppressed by ignorance and poverty, are deprived of this same assistance so abundant in the cities (I:40). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7040928 Mon, 13 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT Be faithful to your faithful lover who is Our Lord. Also be very simple and humble (I:28). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7040435 Sun, 12 May 2013 00:00:04 EDT May we see things as they are, as works of God which God has entrusted to us (CCD XII:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7039964 Sat, 11 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT God, grant us the grace to see things with the same eyes as you do (CCD XII:78). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7039104 Fri, 10 May 2013 00:00:02 EDT If Jesus welcomed the mentally ill and fanatics, why shouldn't we? (CCD XII:78). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7038188 Thu, 09 May 2013 00:00:07 EDT 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 and by others (CCD XII:77). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7037399 Wed, 08 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT It is through priests that heretics have prevailed, vice has reigned, and ignorance has set up its throne among the poor people (CCD XII:76). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7036365 Tue, 07 May 2013 00:00:01 EDT The Church has no worse enemies than priests (CCD XII:76). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7034778 Mon, 06 May 2013 00:00:03 EDT How much our hearts should be on fire with love for this ministry of assisting poor people and for devoting ourselves earnestly to it because the need is so great and God expects this of us (CCD XII:73). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7033542 Sun, 05 May 2013 00:00:06 EDT It is important for us to work constantly at our growth in holiness (CCD XII:70). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7032469 Sat, 04 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT The more perfect we practice virtue, the more pleasing we are to God (CCD XII:69). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7030877 Fri, 03 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT Let us aspire to take Jesus as a model in the way He acted and what He did (CCD XII:76) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7029154 Thu, 02 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT When learning, the gift of leadership, and sound judgment are found in the same person, what a treasure! (CCD XII:45) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7027310 Wed, 01 May 2013 00:00:05 EDT Those suffering from illness in the Company are the blessing of the Company (CCD XII:26). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7025260 Tue, 30 Apr 2013 00:00:06 EDT What is the meaning of the word missionary? It means a person who is sent (CCD XII:24). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7023415 Mon, 29 Apr 2013 00:00:02 EDT Missioners are those who have God alone in view, their own salvation and that of their neighbor; those who have no other attachment than the one that unites them more closely to God (CCD XII:23). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7021972 Sun, 28 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT God is with the simple and humble; He assists them, blesses their work, blesses their undertakings (CCD XII:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7020468 Sat, 27 Apr 2013 00:00:05 EDT O human wretchedness! O cursed pride! How much trouble you cause! (CCD XII:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7018448 Fri, 26 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT My intention is always to call you brothers... that's the term Our Lord used with his Apostles (CCD XII:18). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7016477 Thu, 25 Apr 2013 00:00:06 EDT What the eye sees affects us much more than what the ear hears and we believe in a good that we see rather than in one we hear (CCD XII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7014205 Wed, 24 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT We must consult God to learn His language and ask that He himself speak in us and through us (CCD XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7011984 Tue, 23 Apr 2013 00:00:05 EDT We must set ourselves aside in order to be in communion with God (CCD XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7010036 Mon, 22 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT We have all been called by God to work on a masterpiece (CCD XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7007772 Sun, 21 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT If the Church's ministers are good and they do their duty, all will go well (CCD XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7005550 Sat, 20 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT I hope that your past fidelity to these rules and your patience in waiting so long for them will obtain for you from the goodness of God the grace to observe them with greater ease in the future (CCD XII:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=7002364 Fri, 19 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT Imitate the way Our Lord acted, who began to do before He began to teach (CCD XII:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6999795 Thu, 18 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT Poor persons are our portion (CCD XII:4). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6997070 Wed, 17 Apr 2013 00:00:01 EDT Let us give ourselves to God to go throughout the world to carry His holy gospel (CCD XI:365). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6994425 Tue, 16 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT Reflect on the worth of an individual animated by the Spirit of God (CCD XI:369). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6991684 Mon, 15 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT Let us give ourselves wholeheartedly to God and offer ourselves to Him for whatever ministries in which His Divine Majesty may be pleased to engage us. Let us not be cowards any longer (CCD XI:375). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6988756 Sun, 14 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT Let us leave everything to serve God and the neighbor (CCD XI:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6986470 Sat, 13 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT If we do not have humility, we have nothing (CCD XI:387). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6983921 Fri, 12 Apr 2013 00:00:02 EDT We, too, can have our holy faith respected by living according to God (CCD XI:395). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6982470 Thu, 11 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT Let's work, let's work, let's go to the assistance of the poor country people who are waiting for us (CCD XI:391). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6981146 Wed, 10 Apr 2013 00:00:05 EDT It is not enough to do good, to give alms... we must in addition do it in the Spirit of Our Lord, in the way Our Lord did it on earth, and purely for the glory of God (CCD XI:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6979769 Tue, 09 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT We will never be fit to do God's work if we do not have profound humility (CCD XI:388). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6978440 Mon, 08 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT The blood of Christians has been the seed of Christianity throughout the world (CCD XI:368). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6977690 Sun, 07 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT How wonderful are the ways of God and how incomprehensible they are to us! (CCD XI:367). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6976683 Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:00:01 EDT We must not let difficulties shake us; the glory of the Eternal Father and the efficacy of the Word and Passion of His Son are at stake (CCD XI:366). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6975685 Fri, 05 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT God takes wonderful pleasure in seeing the suffering of a soul who endures it patiently for love of Him (CCD XI:362). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6974725 Thu, 04 Apr 2013 00:00:03 EDT We must act moderately and tranquilly and always preserve peace of mind and heart (CCD XI:361). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6973842 Wed, 03 Apr 2013 00:00:01 EDT We should all be so disposed and have this desire to suffer for God and our neighbor and to wear ourselves out for that purpose (CCD XI:357). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6973026 Tue, 02 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT No one is exempt from imperfections, for God permits all that to humble us and to make us practice acts of virtue (CCD XI:354). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6972204 Mon, 01 Apr 2013 00:00:04 EDT Don't think that it's a small thing to be devoted to the relief of those in distress (CCD XI:17). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6971764 Sun, 31 Mar 2013 00:00:03 EDT Let us thank God for having given this Community the care of the mentally ill and the incorrigible (CCD XI:17). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6971296 Sat, 30 Mar 2013 00:00:05 EDT If we make poor use of God's graces by neglecting our primary duties, God will take these graces from us (CCD XI:12). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6970648 Fri, 29 Mar 2013 00:00:03 EDT The first step for a person who wants to acquire virtue is to become the master of his mouth (CCD XI:8). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6969662 Thu, 28 Mar 2013 00:00:03 EDT What a great thing a good priest is! What is there that a good priest can't do? (CCD XI:6) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6968795 Wed, 27 Mar 2013 00:00:02 EDT Would we want to be in this world without pleasing God and procuring for Him His greater glory (CCD XI:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6967906 Tue, 26 Mar 2013 00:00:02 EDT As soon as we empty ourselves of self, God will fill us with himself (CCD XI:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6966911 Mon, 25 Mar 2013 00:00:06 EDT Charity is the paradise of communities and the soul of the virtues and it is humility that attracts and preserves them (CCCD XI:1). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6966287 Sun, 24 Mar 2013 00:00:05 EDT Let us strive for humility, especially since the more humble we are, the more charitable we will be toward our neighbor (CCD XI:1). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6965879 Sat, 23 Mar 2013 00:00:09 EDT We must continue to do good, even though people of the world may criticize us (CCD VII:105). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6965119 Fri, 22 Mar 2013 00:00:02 EDT Ask Our Lord for the grace of perfect charity and the spirit of humility that causes us to acknowledge that others are better than we and we are worse than demons (CCD VII:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6964101 Thu, 21 Mar 2013 00:00:03 EDT Let us finish what we have begun and our Lord will help us (CCD VII:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6963212 Wed, 20 Mar 2013 00:00:05 EDT You are right in having no scruples about missing Mass to assist the poor, for God prefers mercy to sacrifice (CCD VII:66). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6962348 Tue, 19 Mar 2013 00:00:03 EDT I ask Our Lord that this new year may be a happy one for you for eternity and be followed by many other similar ones that will lead you to God, our last end (CCD VII:58) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6961656 Mon, 18 Mar 2013 00:00:55 EDT We continue to ask God to complete the work of restoring the Congregation to its pristine glory and, above all, to give it peace (CCD VII:36). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6961365 Sun, 17 Mar 2013 00:00:08 EDT The ashes of these apostolic men will be the seed of a large number of good missionaries (CCD VII:19). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6960755 Sat, 16 Mar 2013 00:00:08 EDT May God's good pleasure be always the peace and tranquility of our afflicted hearts (CCD VII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6959865 Fri, 15 Mar 2013 00:00:06 EDT Now we have many Missionaries in heaven. There is no room to doubt this since they all made the supreme sacrifice of their lives for charity and there is no greater love than to give one's live for the neighbor (CCD VII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6958985 Thu, 14 Mar 2013 00:00:12 EDT I ask Our Lord to give you a share of His humility and patience to overcome your difficulties (CCD VII:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6958032 Wed, 13 Mar 2013 00:00:07 EDT O my God, how well you know how to direct your work, and how clearly you make it seen that it is Yours! (CCD XIIIb:202). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6956783 Tue, 12 Mar 2013 00:00:09 EDT A sure way for a Christian to grow rapidly in holiness is a conscientious effort to carry out God's will in all circumstances and at all times (CCC XIIIb:433-434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6956022 Mon, 11 Mar 2013 00:00:11 EDT Virtue loves discernment and can never be excessive-- neither too little nor too much (CCD XIIIb:196). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6955492 Sun, 10 Mar 2013 00:00:09 EDT To wear oneself out for God, to have happiness and strength only to consume them for God, is to do what Our Lord Himself did, who exhausted Himself for love of His Father (CCD XIIIb:195). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6954912 Sat, 09 Mar 2013 01:00:07 EDT All we have to do is walk straight ahead and do well to make everyone our friend (CCD XIIIb:193). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6954242 Fri, 08 Mar 2013 01:00:05 EDT The Christian spirit consists in not pretending anything, but rather in being very sincere, making one's words and works correspond to one's thoughts (CCD XIIIb:162). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6953366 Thu, 07 Mar 2013 01:00:06 EDT They went from one place to another to meet the needs, not only of the Church workers, but of the faithful who were in distress (CCD XIIIb:436). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6952314 Wed, 06 Mar 2013 01:00:06 EDT You are to be interiorly and continually devoted to working at your spiritual advancement and live as perfect as you can, always keeping the lamp within you lighted-- I mean a cordial, ardent, and persevering desire to please and obey God (CCD XIIIb:434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6951477 Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:00:05 EDT God be praised for granting you the grace of clothing Our Lord in His poor members, most of whom had nothing but rags to cover them and several children were as naked as the back of my hand (CCD XIIIb:428). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6950688 Mon, 04 Mar 2013 01:00:07 EDT A calling is a choice God makes of some souls to use them for a certain good work (CCD XIIIb:417). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6950250 Sun, 03 Mar 2013 01:00:09 EDT The art of loving God is to love Him; likewise, the art of acquiring humility is to humble ourselves, and more we advance in this practice, the more we will resemble our Lord (CCD XIIIb:341). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6949643 Sat, 02 Mar 2013 01:00:10 EDT Who could understand the height, the depth, the sublimity of the grace by which God renders a soul worthy of being used where and as He wishes (CCD XIIIb:340). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6949001 Fri, 01 Mar 2013 01:00:11 EDT As we empty ourselves of self and of the desire to be noticed, esteemed, and respected, God will fill our souls with graces and blessings, give to each according to the degree of perfection He demands (CCD XIIIb:337). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6948074 Thu, 28 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT How true it is that a person must be called by God in order to be stable in any vocation whatsoever; otherwise there is nothing but wavering and inconstancy (CCD XIIIb:333). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6947367 Wed, 27 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT I ask Our Lord in His goodness to deign to animate you with His true Spirit, so that everything you do and say may be to render Him the service He expects of you (CCD XIIIb:295). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6946508 Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:00:10 EDT Charity toward the neighbor is an infallible sign of the true children of God (CCD XIIIb:8). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6945580 Mon, 25 Feb 2013 01:00:07 EDT God uses the most inferior materials for the extraordinary workings of His grace (CCD XI:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6944898 Sun, 24 Feb 2013 01:00:05 EDT When a person has personally experienced his own weaknesses and trials, he is more sensitive to the weaknesses of others (CCD XI:18). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6944422 Sat, 23 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT Simplicity is a virtue that makes us go straight to God and to the truth (CCD XI:24). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6943611 Fri, 22 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT We are to run to the spiritual needs of our neighbor as if we were running to a fire (CCD XI:25). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6942628 Thu, 21 Feb 2013 01:00:30 EDT How beautiful it is to see poor people if we consider them in God and with the esteem in which Jesus Christ held them (CCD XI:26). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6941875 Wed, 20 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT Now I see that the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church since such care is taken in the instruction and salvation of poor village people (CCD XI:29). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6940858 Tue, 19 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Let us seek God alone and He will provide us with friends and with everything else, so much so that we will lack nothing (CCD XI:31). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6940061 Mon, 18 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brow (CCD XI:32). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6939413 Sun, 17 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Let us live together in great charity and friendliness (CCD XI:99). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6938818 Sat, 16 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Charity finds everything good (CCD XI:110). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6938057 Fri, 15 Feb 2013 01:00:02 EDT Education is necessary and woe betide those who don't use this time well (CCD XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6937298 Thu, 14 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT How hard it is to find an individual who is really knowledgeable and truly humble (CCD XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6936205 Wed, 13 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT We have to study in such a way that love corresponds to knowledge (CCD XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6935295 Tue, 12 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT Isn't it a great mercy of God to welcome us back into his grace after we had rebelled against Him (CCD XI:118). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6934450 Mon, 11 Feb 2013 01:00:06 EDT Let us look upon our imperfections as a special mercy of God. (CCD XI:119) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6934003 Sun, 10 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT What seems foolish and contemptible in the eyes of human beings is wisdom in the sight of God! (CCD XI:118) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6933530 Sat, 09 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT We preach mainly by good example (CCD XI:252). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6932728 Fri, 08 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Simplicity converts everyone (CCD XI:259). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6931869 Thu, 07 Feb 2013 01:00:03 EDT Let's be like that little peasant who was carrying a sack and, seeing his master kneel down to pray did the same, with his little sack on his back. When asked what he was doing, he said, "I'm asking God to do what you're requesting of him; I'm a poor idiot who doesn't know how to say anything to him, so I'm asking him to listen to you; I'd like to say to Him the things that you're saying, but I can't; so I'm offering Him whatever you're saying to Him." (CCD XI:262). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6931092 Wed, 06 Feb 2013 01:00:06 EDT Let ask God to give the Company this spirit, this heart, this heart that causes us to go everywhere (CCD XI:264). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6930236 Tue, 05 Feb 2013 01:00:04 EDT Humility is in no way contrary to magnanimity (CCD XI:273). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6929342 Mon, 04 Feb 2013 01:00:06 EDT God does nothing without some good purpose (CCD XI:276). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6928971 Sun, 03 Feb 2013 01:00:07 EDT The depravity of the ecclesiastical state is the principal cause of the ruin of God's Church (CCD XI:279). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6928478 Sat, 02 Feb 2013 01:00:06 EDT O how fortunate we are to be in a Company that professes to run to the relief of the neighbor (CCD XI:331). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6927634 Fri, 01 Feb 2013 01:00:06 EDT The ways of God are incomprehensible and hidden from the eyes of humans, who can't understand them (CCD XI:337). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6926960 Thu, 31 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT The Little Company strives to serve persons who are poor, the well-beloved of God (CCD XI:349). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6926357 Wed, 30 Jan 2013 01:00:10 EDT Let us acknowledge before God that the poor are our lords and masters and that we are unworthy of rendering them our little services (CCD XI:349). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6925783 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 02:00:06 EDT Let us acknowledge before God that the poor are our lords and masters and that we are unworthy of rendering them our little services (CCD XI:349). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6925695 Tue, 29 Jan 2013 01:00:08 EDT God asks for our good will, a firm, genuine disposition to seize every opportunity of serving him (CCD XI:357). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6925126 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 02:00:10 EDT God asks for our good will, a firm, genuine disposition to seize every opportunity of serving him (CCD XI:357). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6925099 Mon, 28 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT Doing good isn't everything; it must be done well, in imitation of Our Lord (CCD XI:43). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6924635 Sun, 27 Jan 2013 01:00:07 EDT While Christ recommends the simplicity of a dove He tells us to have the prudence of serpent as well ... this means that we should speak and behave with discretion (XIIIb:435). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6924101 Sat, 26 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT Jesus the Lord expects us to have the simplicity of a dove... this means giving a straightforward opinion about things in the way we honestly see them (XIIIb:434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6923362 Fri, 25 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT A sure way for a Christian to grow rapidly in holiness is a conscientious effort to carry out God's will in all circumstances and at all times (CCC XIIIb:433-434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6922437 Thu, 24 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT They went from one place to another to meet the needs, not only of the Church workers, but of the faithful who were in distress (XIIIb:436). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6921049 Wed, 23 Jan 2013 01:00:07 EDT You are to be interiorly and continually devoted to working at your spiritual advancement and live as perfect as you can, always keeping the lamp within you lighted-- I mean a cordial, ardent, and persevering desire to please and obey God (XIIIb:434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6920297 Tue, 22 Jan 2013 01:00:17 EDT God be praised for granting you the grace of clothing Our Lord in His poor members, most of whom had nothing but rags to cover them and several children were as naked as the back of my hand (XIIIb:428). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6919739 Mon, 21 Jan 2013 01:00:12 EDT A calling is a choice God makes of some souls to use them for a certain good work (XIIIb:417). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6919328 Sun, 20 Jan 2013 01:00:03 EDT The art of loving God is to love Him; likewise, the art of acquiring humility is to humble ourselves, and more we advance in this practice, the more we will resemble our Lord (XIIIb:341). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6918982 Sat, 19 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT Who could understand the height, the depth, the sublimity of the grace by which God renders a soul worthy of being used where and as He wishes (XIIIb:340). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6918463 Fri, 18 Jan 2013 01:00:04 EDT As we empty ourselves of self and of the desire to be noticed, esteemed, and respected, God will fill our souls with graces and blessings, give to each according to the degree of perfection He demands (XIIIb:337). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6917961 Thu, 17 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT How true it is that a person must be called by God in order to be stable in any vocation whatsoever; otherwise there is nothing but wavering and inconstancy (XIIIb:333). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6917331 Wed, 16 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT I ask Our Lord in his goodness to deign to animate you with His true Spirit, so that everything you do and say may be to render Him the service He expects of you (XIIIb:295). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6916456 Tue, 15 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT O my God, how well You know how to direct Your work, and how clearly you make it seen that it is Yours! (XIIIb:202). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6915823 Mon, 14 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT Virtue loves discernment and can never be excessive-- neither too little nor too much (XIIIb:196). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6915156 Sun, 13 Jan 2013 01:00:03 EDT To wear oneself out for God, to have happiness and strength only to consume them for God, is to do what Our Lord Himself did, who exhausted Himself for love of His Father (XIIIb:195). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6914687 Sat, 12 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT All we have to do is walk straight ahead and do well to make everyone our friend (XIIIb:193). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6914106 Fri, 11 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT The Christian spirit consists in not pretending anything, but rather in being very sincere, making one's words and works correspond to one's thoughts (XIIIb:162). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6913483 Thu, 10 Jan 2013 01:00:04 EDT Charity toward the neighbor is an infallible sign of the true children of God (XIIIb:8). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6912576 Wed, 09 Jan 2013 01:00:14 EDT We should spend as much time thanking God for His favors as we did in asking Him for them (XII:399). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6911563 Tue, 08 Jan 2013 01:00:08 EDT When human prudence fails, the light of divine wisdom begins to dawn (XII:399). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6910805 Mon, 07 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT I am a poor blind man unable to take a single step in the way of goodness unless You, O God, extend Your merciful hand to guide me (XII:394). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6909989 Sun, 06 Jan 2013 02:00:05 EDT I am not a man but a poor worm crawling along the earth, not knowing where I am going, but seeking only to hide myself in you, O God (XII:394). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6909221 Sat, 05 Jan 2013 02:00:05 EDT You should realize that someone appointed by God to serve others is not put out by the demands made on him (XII:392). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6908569 Fri, 04 Jan 2013 01:00:04 EDT All those who love the poor in life will have nothing to fear from death (XII:391). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6907962 Thu, 03 Jan 2013 01:00:06 EDT What is done out of charity is done for God (XII:391). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6907218 Wed, 02 Jan 2013 01:00:04 EDT To conform ourselves in everything to the will of God, and to take all our pleasure in this, is to lead a truly angelic life upon earth, and even to live the very life of Jesus Christ (XII:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6906511 Tue, 01 Jan 2013 01:00:05 EDT Once God has begun to do good to a creature, He continues to do so to the end (XII:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6905642 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 23:00:04 EDT One act of resignation and of acceptance of God's will is worth more than a hundred thousand temporal successes (XII:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6904760 Sun, 30 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT When we have spent all we have for Our Lord and have nothing left, we will put the key under the door and leave (XII:388). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6902861 Sat, 29 Dec 2012 01:00:12 EDT Have courage, trust in Our Lord, who will be our help in the work we have begun and in the undertaking to which He has called us (XII:388). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6901298 Fri, 28 Dec 2012 01:00:06 EDT The blood of the martyrs will not be forgotten by God and sooner or later will bring about a new generation of Catholics (XII:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6900206 Thu, 27 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT Some people always think well of their neighbor, as much as true charity allows them to do. They can't see virtue without praising it, or a virtuous person without loving them (XII:383). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6899193 Wed, 26 Dec 2012 01:00:05 EDT Those who walk surely are those who do not stray from the path which most of the wise have used (XII:383). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6897798 Tue, 25 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT How can a Company inflame hearts with true charity, if the Company itself does not have it? (XII:216). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6896463 Mon, 24 Dec 2012 01:00:06 EDT Our vocation is to go, not just to one parish, not just to one diocese, but all over the world (XII:215). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6894677 Sun, 23 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT We are sent not only to love God but to make God loved. It is not enough to love God if our neighbor does not love God (XII:215). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6893980 Sat, 22 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT I must be afire with love for those with whom I live and with edifying others by the exercise of love (XII:215). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6892894 Fri, 21 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT Enlightenment from on high is needed to raise us up in order to show us the height and depth, the breadth and the excellence of God's love (XII:213). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6890844 Thu, 20 Dec 2012 01:00:05 EDT We should believe that our peace and glory lie in virtue, and our virtue is a resemblance to Jesus Christ (XII:208). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6889780 Wed, 19 Dec 2012 01:00:07 EDT Openness to God's will is the source of all virtues and the death of all vices (XII:188). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6888857 Tue, 18 Dec 2012 01:00:05 EDT Openness to God's will is the height of holiness (XII:188). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6887884 Mon, 17 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT Openness to God's will must necessarily be akin to the nature of perfect love (XII:188). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6887133 Sun, 16 Dec 2012 01:00:02 EDT Despite our knowledge of the beauty and the holiness of humility, we still allow ourselves to get carried away by the violence of pride (XII:165). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6886433 Sat, 15 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT We need a certain charm and a pleasant countenance so as not to scare anyone away (XII:157). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6884848 Fri, 14 Dec 2012 01:00:06 EDT Gentleness causes us to master our passions (XII:155). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6883816 Thu, 13 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT God, you see before You a Company that longs only for the grace to observe your teachings, to model itself on Your way of acting and to advance in the ways of holiness You have prescribed for it (XII:150). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6882451 Wed, 12 Dec 2012 01:00:02 EDT Doing good is not everything; we have to do it well, after the example of Our Lord (XII:148). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6880343 Tue, 11 Dec 2012 01:00:05 EDT Make good use of prudence, we have to form our judgment on Christian teaching which are always sure (XII:147). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6878543 Mon, 10 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Simplicity consists in saying things as we have them at heart (XII:143). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6877778 Sun, 09 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Everyone loves simple, candid people who do not use subtleties or tricks, who are straightforward and speak sincerely, with the result that whatever they say comes from their heart (XII:142). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6876277 Sat, 08 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT True religion is found among the poor. God enriches them with a lively faith: they believe, they ouch, they taste the words of life (XII:142). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6874390 Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Of ourselves we can do nothing but spoil everything (XII:139). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6873049 Thu, 06 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Go and do what you can for your part and God will do the rest (XII:139). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6871892 Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT Lord, to glorify you, I want to hear and to do whatever is indicated to me on Your behalf (XII:135). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6870449 Tue, 04 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT We have to strive to raise our hearts to Him in our principal actions in order to consecrate them entirely to Him and to them in conformity to His will (XII:135). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6868393 Mon, 03 Dec 2012 01:00:04 EDT Our work are worthless if they are not vibrant and animated by the intention of doing them for God (XII:129). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6866758 Sun, 02 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Provided that we are faithful to Him we will lack nothing; He himself will live in us, guide, defend and love us (XII:119). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6864868 Sat, 01 Dec 2012 01:00:03 EDT Let us keep this lamp always lit in our hearts (XII:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6863358 Fri, 30 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT Let us say: O king of our hearts, here we are, humbly prostrated at your feet, totally committed to Your obedience and love (XII:113). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6861896 Thu, 29 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT Do we have the happiness of having God as our Master, with the result that His virtues find no resistance in us? CCD XII:113). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6860560 Wed, 28 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT We have our Lord's promise that He will take care of all our needs without our worrying about them (XII:112). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6858851 Tue, 27 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT Let us strive to make ourselves interior men and women so that Jesus Christ may reign in us (XII:111). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6857462 Mon, 26 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT May he keep our lamps lit in His presence and our hearts always tending to His love and always devoted to clothing ourselves ever more with Jesus Christ (XII:97). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6856091 Sun, 25 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT O Savior, teach us to seek our pleasure in you, to love what You loved and to be pleased with what pleases You (XII:95). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6854769 Sat, 24 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT Let us become interior men and women, forming a strong holy attachment to the service of God (XII:82). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6853408 Fri, 23 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT Let us give ourselves to God so that He will grant us the grace to stand fast (XII:82). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6851610 Thu, 22 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT This Company is from God because people see that it hasten to the relief of the most pressing and neglected needs (XII:80). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6849996 Wed, 21 Nov 2012 01:00:05 EDT May we see things as they are, as works of God which God has entrusted to us (II:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6848402 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT God, grant us the grace to see things with the same eyes as you do (XII:78). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6847039 Mon, 19 Nov 2012 01:00:05 EDT If Jesus welcomed the mentally ill and fanatics, why shouldn't we? (XII:78). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6846345 Sun, 18 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT 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 then assisted in every way, by us and by others (XII:77). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6845198 Sat, 17 Nov 2012 01:00:06 EDT It is through priests that heretics have prevailed, vice has reigned, and ignorance has set up its throne among the poor people (XII:76). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6843984 Fri, 16 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT The Church has no worse enemies than priests (XII:76). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6842433 Thu, 15 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT How much our hearts should be on fire with love for this ministry of assisting poor people and for devoting ourselves earnestly to it because the need is so great and God expects this of us (XII:73). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6841488 Wed, 14 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT Our mission is to make God known to poor persons; to announce Jesus Christ to them; to tell them that the kingdom of heaven is at hand and that it is for persons who are poor (XII:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6840502 Tue, 13 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT It is important for us to work constantly at our growth in holiness (XII:70). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6839550 Mon, 12 Nov 2012 01:00:06 EDT The more perfect we practice virtue, the more pleasing we are to God (XII:69). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6838685 Sun, 11 Nov 2012 01:00:06 EDT Let us aspire to take Jesus as a model in the way He acted and what He did (XII:76). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6837857 Sat, 10 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT When learning, the gift of leadership, and sound judgment are found in the same person, what a treasure! (XII:45) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6836898 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT When learning, the gift of leadership, and sound judgment are found in the same person, what a treasure! (XII:45) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6836896 Fri, 09 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT Those suffering from illness in the Company are the blessing of the Company (XII:26). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6835954 Thu, 08 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT What is the meaning of the word missionary? It means a person who is sent (XII:24). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6835164 Wed, 07 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT Missioners are those who have God alone in view, their own salvation and that of their neighbor; those who have no other attachment than the one that unites them more closely to God (XII:23). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6834310 Tue, 06 Nov 2012 01:00:04 EDT When learning, the gift of leadership, and sound judgment are found in the same person, what a treasure! (XII:45) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6833668 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:00:00 EDT God is with the simple and humble; He assists them, blesses their work, blesses their undertakings (XII:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6833183 Mon, 05 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT O human wretchedness! O cursed pride! How much trouble you cause! (XII:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6832366 Sun, 04 Nov 2012 01:00:03 EDT My intention is always to call you brothers... that's the term Our Lord used with his Apostles (XII:18). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6831540 Sat, 03 Nov 2012 00:00:05 EDT What the eye sees affects us much more than what the ear hears and we believe in a good that we see rather than in one we hear (XII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6830577 Fri, 02 Nov 2012 00:00:05 EDT We must consult God to learn his language and ask that He himself speak in us and through us (XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6829515 Thu, 01 Nov 2012 00:00:07 EDT We must set ourselves aside in order to be in communion with God (XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6828553 Wed, 31 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We have all been called by God to work on a masterpiece (XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6827442 Tue, 30 Oct 2012 00:00:06 EDT If the Church's ministers are good and they do their duty, all will go well (XII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6826340 Mon, 29 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT I hope that your past fidelity to these rules and your patience in waiting so long for them will obtain for you from the goodness of God the grace to observe them with greater ease in the future (XII:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6825422 Sun, 28 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT Imitate the way Our Lord acted, who began to do before He began to teach (XII:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6824625 Sat, 27 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT Poor persons are our portion (XII:4). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6823531 Fri, 26 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We, too, can have our holy faith respected by living according to God (XI:395). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6822389 Thu, 25 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let's work, let's work, let's go to the assistance of the poor country people who are waiting for us (XI:391). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6821232 Wed, 24 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT It is not enough to do good, to give alms... we must in addition do it in the Spirit of Our Lord, in the way Our Lord did it on earth, and purely for the glory of God (XI:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6819911 Tue, 23 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We will never be fit to do God's work if we do not have profound humility (XI:388). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6818646 Mon, 22 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT If we do not have humility, we have nothing (XI:387). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6817664 Sun, 21 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT Let us leave everything to serve God and the neighbor (XI:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6816726 Sat, 20 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us give ourselves wholeheartedly to God and offer ourselves to Him for whatever ministries in which His Divine Majesty may be pleased to engage us. Let us not be cowards any longer (XI:375). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6815578 Fri, 19 Oct 2012 00:00:06 EDT Reflect on the worth of an individual animated by the Spirit of God (XI:369). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6814376 Thu, 18 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT The blood of Christians has been the seed of Christianity throughout the world (XI:368). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6813245 Wed, 17 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We must not let difficulties shake us; the glory of the Eternal Father and the efficacy of the Word and Passion of His Son are at stake (XI:366). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6811613 Tue, 16 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT Let us give ourselves to God to go throughout the world to carry His holy gospel (XI:365). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6809274 Mon, 15 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT God takes wonderful pleasure in seeing the suffering of a soul who endures it patiently for love of Him (XI:362). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6806939 Sun, 14 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We must act moderately and tranquilly and always preserve peace of mind and heart (XI:361). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6805860 Sat, 13 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT How wonderful are the ways of God and how incomprehensible they are to us! (XI:367). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6804815 Fri, 12 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT We should all be so disposed and have this desire to suffer for God and our neighbor and to wear ourselves out for that purpose (XI:357). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6803686 Thu, 11 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT No one is exempt from imperfections, for God permits all that to humble us and to make us practice acts of virtue (XI:354). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6802052 Wed, 10 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT God asks for our good will, a firm, genuine disposition to seize every opportunity of serving him (XI:357). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6800265 Tue, 09 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT The Little Company strives to serve persons who are poor, the well-beloved of God (XI:349). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6798601 Mon, 08 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us acknowledge before God that the poor are our lords and masters and that we are unworthy of rendering them our little services (XI:349). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6797180 Sun, 07 Oct 2012 00:00:03 EDT The ways of God are incomprehensible and hidden from the eyes of humans, who can't understand them (XI:337). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6795388 Sat, 06 Oct 2012 00:00:05 EDT O how fortunate we are to be in a Company that professes to run to the relief of the neighbor (XI:331). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6793587 Fri, 05 Oct 2012 00:00:07 EDT The depravity of the ecclesiastical state is the principal cause of the ruin of God's Church (XI:279). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6791802 Thu, 04 Oct 2012 00:00:03 EDT God does nothing without some good purpose (XI:276). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6789989 Wed, 03 Oct 2012 00:00:07 EDT Humility is in no way contrary to magnanimity (XI:273). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6787953 Tue, 02 Oct 2012 00:00:03 EDT Let us ask God to give the Company this spirit, this heart, this heart that causes us to go everywhere (XI:264). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6786179 Mon, 01 Oct 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let's be like that little peasant who was carrying a sack and, seeing his master kneel down to pray did the same, with his little sack on his back. When asked what he was doing, he said, "I'm asking God to do what you're requesting of him; I'm a poor idiot who doesn't know how to say anything to him, so I'm asking him to listen to you; I'd like to say to Him the things that you're saying, but I can't; so I'm offering Him whatever you're saying to Him (XI:262). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6784501 Sun, 30 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Simplicity converts everyone (XI:259). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6783101 Sat, 29 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT We preach mainly by good example (XI:252). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6781276 Fri, 28 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us look upon our imperfections as a special mercy of God (XI:119). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6779579 Thu, 27 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT What seems foolish and contemptible in the eyes of human beings is wisdom in the sight of God! (XI:118). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6777980 Wed, 26 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT Isn't it a great mercy of God to welcome us back into his grace after we had rebelled against Him (XI:118). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6776394 Tue, 25 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT We have to study in such a way that love corresponds to knowledge (XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6774802 Mon, 24 Sep 2012 00:00:02 EDT How hard it is to find an individual who is really knowledgeable and truly humble (XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6773238 Sun, 23 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT Education is necessary and woe betide those who don't use this time well (XI:116). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6772016 Sat, 22 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Charity finds everything good (XI:110). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6770563 Fri, 21 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us live together in great charity and friendliness (XI:99). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6769203 Thu, 20 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Doing good isn't everything; it must be done well, in imitation of Our Lord (XI:43). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6767794 Wed, 19 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Let us love God, but let it be with the strength of our arms and the sweat of our brows (XI:32). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6766435 Tue, 18 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us seek God alone and He will provide us with friends and with everything else, so much so that we will lack nothing (XI:31). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6764782 Mon, 17 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT Now I see that the Holy Spirit is guiding the Church since such care is taken in the instruction and salvation of poor village people (XI:29). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6763684 Sun, 16 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT How beautiful it is to see poor people if we consider them in God and with the esteem in which Jesus Christ held them (XI:26). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6762654 Sat, 15 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT We are to run to the spiritual needs of our neighbor as if we were running to a fire (XI:25). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6761015 Fri, 14 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Simplicity is a virtue that makes us go straight to God and to the truth (XI:24). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6758951 Thu, 13 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us bless and thank God for entrusting to us the care of these poor people, for in serving them we see and touch the extent and diversity of human misery (XI:19). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6757133 Wed, 12 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT When a person has personally experienced his own weaknesses and trials, he is more sensitive to the weaknesses of others (XI:18). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6755327 Tue, 11 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT God uses the most inferior materials for the extraordinary workings of His grace (XI:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6753514 Mon, 10 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Don't think that it's a small thing to be devoted to the relief of those in distress (XI:17). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6751938 Sun, 09 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Let us thank God for having given this Community the care of the mentally ill and the incorrigible (XI:17). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6750051 Sat, 08 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT If we make poor use of God's graces by neglecting our primary duties, God will take these graces from us (XI:12). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6748463 Fri, 07 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT The first step for a person who wants to acquire virtue is to become the master of his mouth I(XI:8). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6746725 Thu, 06 Sep 2012 00:00:05 EDT What a great thing a good priest is! What is there that a good priest can't do (XI:6). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6745115 Wed, 05 Sep 2012 00:00:03 EDT Would we want to be in this world without pleasing God and procuring for Him His greater glory (XI:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6743462 Tue, 04 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT As soon as we empty ourselves of self, God will fill us with Himself (XI:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6741906 Mon, 03 Sep 2012 00:00:02 EDT Charity is the paradise of communities and the soul of the virtues and it is humility that attracts and preserves them (CCCD XI:1). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6740564 Sun, 02 Sep 2012 00:00:04 EDT Let us strive for humility, especially since the more humble we are, the more charitable we will be toward our neighbor (XI:1). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6739078 Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:00:06 EDT How long will we be so tender-hearted as not to dare to declare the happiness we have of being visited by God (VIII:515). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6737396 Fri, 31 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT Our rule prescribing one hour of mental prayer daily makes no exception for days of rest (VIII:442). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6735570 Thu, 30 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT Happy will you be to be crucified with Our Lord for the glory of His Father and the salvation of the people, for you will also reign with Him for all eternity (VIII:414). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6733850 Wed, 29 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT Continue to prefer embarrassment to praise, to mistrust yourself always, and to surrender yourself to God (VIII:379). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6732186 Tue, 28 Aug 2012 00:00:04 EDT Be very grateful to God, thank Him often, and ask Him for mercy (VIII:375). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6730664 Mon, 27 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT You have a thousand reasons to rejoice in God and to hope for everything from Him through Our Lord who dwells in you (VIII:374). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6729586 Sun, 26 Aug 2012 00:00:08 EDT What a great treasure is a good Missionary and how few people in this world are willing to serve God and His Church in purity of faith, detachment from creatures, and self-abnegation (VIII:367). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6728331 Sat, 25 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT The poor country folk are our lot (VIII:367). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6726924 Fri, 24 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT All that God does is well done; without this faith, we would be inconsolable (VIII:355). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6725181 Thu, 23 Aug 2012 00:00:08 EDT Nothing should stop a worker of the Gospel from practicing the virtues proper to his state and from seeking to advance everywhere and in all things the glory of his Master (VIII:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6723448 Wed, 22 Aug 2012 00:00:07 EDT It is God who has called you to life of His life and to continue His work by the practice of charity (VIII:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6721627 Tue, 21 Aug 2012 00:00:09 EDT God be praised that He is the sole foundation of your hope (VIII:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6720090 Mon, 20 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT I ask the Holy Spirit, who is nothing if not love, and who is the sacred bond of the Father and the Son, to be the soul of your leadership and the gentleness of your words and actions (VIII:318). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6719075 Sun, 19 Aug 2012 00:00:04 EDT How great is human weakness and how powerful are the goods of this world to tempt us (VIII:296). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6718337 Sat, 18 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT A death that finds us arms in hand is the most glorious and most desirable there is (VIII:293). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6717094 Fri, 17 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT The grace of perseverance is the greatest gift of all; it crowns all others (VIII:293). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6715798 Thu, 16 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT I simply ask Our Lord to be the bond of your hearts (VIII:275). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6714530 Wed, 15 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT We must not guide others by ourselves but by Our Lord, who has sufficient ability for both you and Himself (VIII:268). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6713291 Tue, 14 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT We must preach Jesus Christ and the virtues as the Apostles did (VIII:237). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6711930 Mon, 13 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT Trust in God's infinite goodness, and you can be sure that He will strengthen you in the test he will to make of your patience (VIII:233). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6711055 Sun, 12 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT Souls that surrender themselves to Our Lord to do and to suffer all things will be justified by Him and will have the honor and merit of resembling Him (VIII:233). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6709964 Sat, 11 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT Words that are not based on truth go up in smoke (VIII:233). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6708435 Fri, 10 Aug 2012 00:00:02 EDT In God's eyes, it is a benefit to be treated as Our Lord was, although it may seen to be an evil according to the world (VIII:233). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6706920 Thu, 09 Aug 2012 00:00:06 EDT I ask Our Lord to animate all of you with His Spirit so that you may constantly do works that are pleasing to God and useful to His Church (VIII:221). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6705369 Wed, 08 Aug 2012 00:00:09 EDT Provided God's work is done, it does not matter who does it (VIII:215). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6703848 Tue, 07 Aug 2012 00:00:22 EDT Virtue is so beautiful and amiable that they will be compelled to love it in you, if you practice it well (VIII:209). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6702249 Mon, 06 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT Give yourselves to God, do not be burdensome, treat every individual with gentleness and respect, always using kind words and requests (VIII:202). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6701402 Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT All things are passing, death draws near, and good works are the only things that last (VIII:193). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6700610 Sat, 04 Aug 2012 00:00:01 EDT Live always in God and take care of yourself for His service (VIII:191). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6699595 Fri, 03 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT I pray that God Himself will be the strength of the weak and the virtue of the strong and the prayer of those who are unable to pray (VIII:186). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6698161 Thu, 02 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT The more we seek, like Our Lord, the Kingdom of God His Father and to establish it in ourselves and in others, the more will the necessities of life be given us (VIII:175). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6696784 Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:00:05 EDT The more we are like Our Lord, stripped of everything, the more we will share in His Spirit (VIII:175). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6695484 Tue, 31 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT Do not be afraid of announcing Christian truths to the people with the simplicity of the Gospel (VIII:173). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6693958 Mon, 30 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT One thing to which you should pay close attention is to destroy that evil spirit of drinking, which is a source of disorder among the clergy. To do so, you must strive to make them interior, prayerful persons, who will prefer to converse with God rather than to seek out the company of others, and to carry out their duties rather than remain idle (VIII:168). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6692764 Sun, 29 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT You are God's and God is yours. Oh! what happiness (VIII:163). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6691593 Sat, 28 Jul 2012 00:00:06 EDT May God be pleased to grant all of them the grace to go from good to better, and to grant the whole Company the grace to grow in numbers and virtue (VIII:159). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6690246 Fri, 27 Jul 2012 00:00:06 EDT We have a serious obligation to ask God to make us worthy of rendering to God and the people the services they expect from us (VIII:145). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6689006 Thu, 26 Jul 2012 00:00:03 EDT Our vocation binds us to follow Our Lord, it obliges us also to renounce ourselves, that is, our will, our judgment, our pleasures, property, relatives, etc. (VIII:126). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6687238 Wed, 25 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT I call evil all those inclinations that turn us aside from the obligations of our vocation (VIII:126). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6685681 Tue, 24 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT Let two men live together and they will have difficulties with one another (VIII:113). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6683946 Mon, 23 Jul 2012 00:00:08 EDT If we are faithful to God, we will lack nothing (VIII:112). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6682895 Sun, 22 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT The detachment God gives you from the things of this world is more valuable than all its precious assets (VIII:111). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6682015 Sat, 21 Jul 2012 00:00:04 EDT May it please God, in his infinite goodness, to fill you with His Spirit, in order to make Him known and loved among these poor people who are so disposed to embrace our holy faith (VIII:103). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6680788 Fri, 20 Jul 2012 00:00:04 EDT We have begun a program here aimed at making all our Missionaries equally qualified for assignments in seminaries and on the missions (VIII:91). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6679672 Thu, 19 Jul 2012 00:00:03 EDT What great consolation you will one day have for having used such efficacious means to advance the sanctification of souls (VIII:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6678316 Wed, 18 Jul 2012 00:00:03 EDT Continue to give God all the affection of your heart, the applications of your mind, and the work of your hands (VIII:65). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6676901 Tue, 17 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT The more persons living in religion distance themselves from poverty, the greater difficulty they will have in maintaining themselves (VIII:49). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6675619 Mon, 16 Jul 2012 00:00:06 EDT The religious spirit must have as a point of reference that of Our Lord, who willed to practice radical poverty on earth (VIII:49). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6674874 Sun, 15 Jul 2012 00:00:06 EDT You are also asked to help the poor people to be able to earn their living in this season by supplying them with implements to gather in the harvest (VIII:27). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6674028 Sat, 14 Jul 2012 00:00:08 EDT May Our Lord Himself be your strength and your life as He is to all those whose food is His love (VIII:20). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6672974 Fri, 13 Jul 2012 00:00:08 EDT May God preserve you by His grace (VIII:16). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6671719 Thu, 12 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT I praise God for the zeal He gives you for the advancement of His glory and the public good (VIII:13). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6670433 Wed, 11 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT May God in His infinite goodness continue to give and increase His graces in you (VIII:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6669293 Tue, 10 Jul 2012 00:00:06 EDT If priests are good, the people will also be good (VIII:3). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6668216 Mon, 09 Jul 2012 00:00:04 EDT The obligations of justice have priority have those of charity (VII:633). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6667393 Sun, 08 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT One mistake should not be corrected by another (VII:631). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6666694 Sat, 07 Jul 2012 00:00:04 EDT How very precious is a good missionary! God must raise him up and fashion him; that is the work of His omnipotence and His great goodness (VII:626). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6665477 Fri, 06 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT If you want to have peace of heart and a thousand blessings from God, do not listen any longer either to your own judgment or your will (VII:589). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6664201 Thu, 05 Jul 2012 00:00:02 EDT May God, in His mercy, be pleased to fill all of us with faith, charity, and zeal for rendering some small service to His Church! Happy are those who, on these foundations, hope in God and consume themselves for charity (VII:575). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6663043 Wed, 04 Jul 2012 00:00:03 EDT We should lament before God at seeing so many needs in the Church and ask the Divine Goodness to be pleased to remedy them and to send good workers into His vineyard (VII:559). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6661959 Tue, 03 Jul 2012 00:00:04 EDT It is not the most learned persons who have the best results but rather those who have greater grace from God (VII:534). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6660852 Mon, 02 Jul 2012 00:00:01 EDT Let us open wide our hearts and wills in His presence, not deciding to do this or that until God has spoken (VII:532). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6660151 Sun, 01 Jul 2012 00:00:05 EDT Let us offer ourselves to God to do and suffer all things for His glory and the building up of His Church (VII:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6659352 Sat, 30 Jun 2012 00:00:01 EDT Let us consider ourselves unworthy of being used by God and of having others think of us, and then we will be well off (VII:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6658041 Fri, 29 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT We do not want to choose our own ways but to walk in those it will please God to set down for us (VII:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6656713 Thu, 28 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT We must be satisfied with making the best use of the few talents God has given us without troubling ourselves about have greater or more extensive ones (VII:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6655439 Wed, 27 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT We must be satisfied with making the best use of the few talents God has given us without troubling ourselves about have greater or more extensive ones (VII:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6654051 Tue, 26 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT I can only be deeply grieved by the intense sufferings of the poor slaves and by my inability to procure some relief for them; may it please God to have pity on them (VII:523). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6652754 Mon, 25 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT It is true that everyone naturally wants what is best for himself, whereas Our Lord wants us to prefer the worst (VII:515). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6652025 Sun, 24 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT Let us ask Our Lord to send good workers into His vineyard and to perfect those who are already in the Company (VII:491). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6651225 Sat, 23 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT The more we see our own inadequacy, let us think that we have even more than we deserve (VII:483). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6650073 Fri, 22 Jun 2012 00:00:12 EDT I ask God to be your strength so that you make walk to the end of the path He has marked out for you to your last end, which is God (VII:480). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6648712 Thu, 21 Jun 2012 00:00:05 EDT May God be pleased to strengthen you and to establish great union among you; for you will be even stronger if you are all closely united (VII:473). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6647455 Wed, 20 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT You will attain happiness if you practice faithfully humility, gentleness, and charity toward the poor (VII:471). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6646277 Tue, 19 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT I praise God for the good dispositions He gives you to make yourself more and more pleasing in His eyes (VII:471). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6644938 Mon, 18 Jun 2012 00:00:01 EDT God's divine goodness is very pleased with the way you are resisting nature in its inclination for change (VII:470). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6643974 Sun, 17 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT It is a great happiness to die in the actual practice of charity (VII:450). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6643098 Sat, 16 Jun 2012 00:00:01 EDT Love one another... esteem and respect one another as daughters of Our Lord made in the image of God; bear with one another's little weaknesses as you would wish to be borne with; lastly, comply graciously with one another's wishes and never argue (VII:449). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6641996 Fri, 15 Jun 2012 00:00:05 EDT Desires that come from God are gentle and leave the soul at peace; whereas inspirations of the evil spirit are, on the contrary, harsh and troubling to the person who has them (VII:434). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6640632 Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT I hope that if we are faithful to God, His blessings will be multiplied for everyone in general and for each one in particular (VII:431). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6639514 Wed, 13 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT If you have good will God will give you what you need to serve effectively the ecclesiastical state to which He has called you (VII:425-426). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6637991 Tue, 12 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT If the world takes something from us on the one hand, God will give us something on the other (VII:424). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6636783 Mon, 11 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT I ask Our Lord to grant us the grace of considering matters as they are in God and not as they appear apart from Him; otherwise we might deceive ourselves and act other than He wishes (VII:403). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6635930 Sun, 10 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT It remains for you only to join zeal to action and to conform yourself to God's good pleasure (VII:397). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6634805 Sat, 09 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT How consoled you will be at the hour of death for having consumed your life for the same reason for which Jesus Christ gave His life-- for charity, for God, for the poor (VII:397). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6633419 Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT It is not men who make things go well, but God, who sometimes allows them to go differently than the way we would like so as to make us realize that we can do nothing about them or to try our patience (VII:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6632127 Thu, 07 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT We must have a high regard for the promises we make to God and, ever more, for carrying them out (VII:383). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6630608 Wed, 06 Jun 2012 00:00:05 EDT If you give only very little to the poor out of helplessness, you give a great deal to God out of love since you offer God your own comfort, your heavy labors and your life (VII:380). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6629592 Tue, 05 Jun 2012 00:00:04 EDT Those who are armed with virtue and with confidence in their Divine Captain will return laden with spoils of the enemy (VII:362). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6628801 Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT What does it matter where God is served, provided he is served, that it be done on behalf of souls for whom Jesus Christ has died and that it be done through ways most advantageous for them (VII:346-347). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6628193 Sun, 03 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT Let us remain lowly and be glad to be poor because when the world sees us debased in this way, it will despise us (VII:344). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6627371 Sat, 02 Jun 2012 00:00:02 EDT Our Lord and Master calls all Missionaries to follow Him and through them the people whose salvation is entrusted to their care (VII:342-343). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6626572 Fri, 01 Jun 2012 00:00:03 EDT Since God has been pleased to inspire you with this good work and to cause you to cast your eyes on us, His Divine Goodness wills also that we proceed in it simply and wholeheartedly (VII:236). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6625706 Thu, 31 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Every walk of life has its joys and sorrows; we have to drink both of them. Heaven suffers violence and we must renounce ourselves to follow Our Lord (VII:333). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6624867 Wed, 30 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT If you are burdened by those vows it is because you do not submit your will to the yoke of Jesus Christ (VII:333). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6623954 Tue, 29 May 2012 00:00:05 EDT By binding yourself entirely to God, Our Lord will bind Himself to you more closely than ever and will be your strength in weakness, your joy in sorrow and your steadfastness in times of indecision (VII:310). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6623114 Mon, 28 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT Always tend toward lowliness, and love of your own abjection, and the desire for contempt and shame (VII:305). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6622185 Sun, 27 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT Delay has not spoiled anything up until now, and I hope it will spoil nothing in the future (VII:304). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6621387 Sat, 26 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Remember that patience is as necessary to bear with ourselves as charity is to bear with the neighbor. May God be pleased to give us both (VII:291). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6620462 Fri, 25 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT I ask Our Lord to be the Spirit of your spirit and the strength of your arm in order to destroy ignorance and sin, two monsters in God's Church (VII:271). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6619590 Thu, 24 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT Good friends share the good things and bad things that happen to them (VII:267). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6618859 Wed, 23 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT May Our Lord be pleased to be ever more glorified in and through you, to enlighten you in your doubts, and to strengthen you in your heavy labors (VII:261). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6617853 Tue, 22 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT It is to be wished that you might have a little more charity for members of the Company passing through (VII:259). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6617006 Mon, 21 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT You let go-- or rather, you sent away-- those two young black men who stopped at your house, without welcoming them or having them take a rest (VII:259). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6616127 Sun, 20 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Do whatever God asks of you and remain at peace; above all, love and support one another in Our Lord (VII:256). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6615267 Sat, 19 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Provided Missionaries are truly humble, very obedient, mortified, zealous, and filled with confidence in God, His Divine Goodness will use them effectively everywhere and will supply for other qualities they might lack (VII:251). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6614103 Fri, 18 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Blessed are those souls who have died in the practice of charity (VII:248). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6612860 Thu, 17 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Our happiness lies in the Cross and Our Lord willed to enter His glory only through difficult things He endured (VII:246). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6611605 Wed, 16 May 2012 00:00:04 EDT Never speak disparagingly of those who have contrary opinions (VII:240). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6610253 Tue, 15 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT Since progress on your establishment is slow, you must be patient. In this world, things that of their nature must last longer are the ones that take the longest to develop (VII:235). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6609024 Mon, 14 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT Put your trust is God's great goodness and offer yourself frequently to God that He may accomplish His good pleasure in and through you (VII:218). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6607907 Sun, 13 May 2012 00:00:01 EDT Our Lord's yoke is easy to those who welcome it willingly and your burden will be light if you compare it with that of Jesus Christ (VII:203). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6606748 Sat, 12 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT The more you give to Our Lord, the greater blessings you will receive (VII:203). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6605392 Fri, 11 May 2012 00:00:05 EDT God's grace will never fail you (VII:203). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6604085 Thu, 10 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT Virtue is virtue only in so far as we make the effort to practice it (VII:203). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6602825 Wed, 09 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT To live according to the Spirit that gives life we must live as our Lord lived (VII:202). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6601394 Tue, 08 May 2012 00:00:01 EDT May all our houses be one single house and all the members have but one heart and one soul (VII:198). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6600088 Mon, 07 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT We have to quicken our pace and redouble our ordinary exercises on certain occasions when the service of God requires it, and then God does not fail to redouble our courage and strength as well (VII:198). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6599018 Sun, 06 May 2012 00:00:02 EDT God has riches in abundance; until now, you have lacked nothing; why are you fearful for the future? (VII:171). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6597899 Sat, 05 May 2012 00:00:01 EDT In the name of God be attentive to the needs of those whom God has entrusted to your guidance (VII:147). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6596848 Fri, 04 May 2012 00:00:01 EDT Happy are those who consume their lives for the service of Our Lord, as He Himself consumed His for the salvation of humankind (VII:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6595713 Thu, 03 May 2012 00:00:05 EDT I ask Our Lord to continue to grant you His graces and to increase them so that you may go on growing from strength to strength (VII:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6594518 Wed, 02 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT What could grace not do if you did not put obstacles in its way? (VII:143). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6593275 Tue, 01 May 2012 00:00:03 EDT We must continue to do good, even though people of the world may criticize us (VII:105). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6591856 Mon, 30 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT Ask Our Lord for the grace of perfect charity and the spirit of humility that causes us to acknowledge that others are better than we and we are worse than demons (VII:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6590730 Sun, 29 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT Let us finish what we have begun and our Lord will help us (VII:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6589691 Sat, 28 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT You are right in having no scruples about missing Mass to assist the poor, for God prefers mercy to sacrifice (VII:66). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6588232 Fri, 27 Apr 2012 00:00:04 EDT May God be pleased to water these new plants and raise on this foundation the edifice of this good work so that gradually it will be able to supply a large number of good workers for the Church of God, especially for all of Italy (VII:55). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6586913 Thu, 26 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT Seminarians are the treasure of the Church, which God has entrusted to you (VII:44). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6585617 Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT Things will be as God so chooses (VII:38). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6584401 Tue, 24 Apr 2012 00:00:04 EDT We continue to ask God to complete the work of restoring the Congregation to its pristine glory and, above all, to give it peace (VII:36). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6583144 Mon, 23 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT Continue always to be a consolation and relief to everyone for the love of Our Lord; by this means you will make yourself very pleasing to Him (VII:31). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6581980 Sun, 22 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT Perhaps Our Lord has permitted these causes of repugnance in order to preach to yourself and to protect you from the empty satisfactions we imperceptibly seek in our work (VII:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6580987 Sat, 21 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT The ashes of these apostolic men will be the seed of a large number of good missionaries (VII:19). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6579772 Fri, 20 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT May God's good pleasure be always the peace and tranquility of our afflicted hearts (VII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6578569 Thu, 19 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT Now we have many Missionaries in heaven. There is no room to doubt this since they all made the supreme sacrifice of their lives for charity and there is no greater love than to give one's life for the neighbor (VII:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6577286 Wed, 18 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT Our Lord will not let this good work go unrewarded (VII:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6575978 Tue, 17 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT I ask Our Lord to give you a share of His humility and patience to overcome your difficulties (VII:2). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6574793 Mon, 16 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT I thank God for your willingness to do His Holy Will, no matter what the cost, with no regard for your own inclinations (VI:604). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6573750 Sun, 15 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT This is how God usually works: He separates and then reunites; He distances and then brings close together; He takes away and then gives back; lastly, He destroys and restores, leaving nothing permanent in this life (VI:569). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6572790 Sat, 14 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT May God grant us the grace to abandon ourselves complete into the arms of his Divine Goodness (VI:545). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6571709 Fri, 13 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT The practice of charity, such as assisting the suffering members of Our Lord, is to be preferred to all other exercises (VI:514). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6570557 Thu, 12 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT Things will be as God pleases; from the ashes of these servants of His, I hope He will create a large number of perfect Missionaries (VI:506). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6569078 Wed, 11 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT Put your trust in the grace of God, who will not allow you to sink under the weight of things if you use moderation (VI:497). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6567725 Tue, 10 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT Let us strive to conform our wills to God's will, and peace of mind will be one of the many great benefits that will result from it (VI:493). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6566611 Mon, 09 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT Happy are they who abandon themselves to God's guidance, confide in His goodness, and remain at peace in the midst of storms (VI:449). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6565639 Sun, 08 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT A weathercock is no more subject to the way the wind blows than the mind of man is to exterior agitations, by which he is drawn now to one side and then to another; God permits this to try good persons and to strengthen them in Him (VI:449). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6564652 Sat, 07 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT God be blessed for having willed all earthly things to be uncertain and perishable so that we may seek in Him alone the stability of our plans and affairs because things then turn out well for us (VI:439). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6563274 Fri, 06 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT It seems to me that Our Lord is causing you, and the acts of patience and conformity to His Will you practice, to be regarded with joy by His heavenly court (VI:428). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6561834 Thu, 05 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT God intends to make a good saint of you in paradise, since He is leading you along the way of the cross (VI:428). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6560458 Wed, 04 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT How fortunate you are to be the instrument of Our Lord in forming good priests (VI:413). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6559165 Tue, 03 Apr 2012 00:00:02 EDT May this same Lord be pleased to enlighten us with His Spirit so we can see the darkness of our own mind and submit it to those whom He has designated to guide us (VI:408). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6557804 Mon, 02 Apr 2012 00:00:01 EDT I ask Our Lord to be your wisdom and your governance so that all will go well with you and by you, in accord with whatever God may ask (VI:390). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6556591 Sun, 01 Apr 2012 00:00:03 EDT May our Lord be pleased to preserve us from the company of a person who can do the slightest harm to our spirit (VI:369). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6555431 Sat, 31 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT Great prudence is required in order not to offend anyone, and great charity and humility must be exercised so as to truly edify the congregation (VI:344). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6553876 Fri, 30 Mar 2012 00:00:06 EDT God knows what is best for us, and He will give it to us at the right time if, like children who have perfect trust in such a good father, we abandon ourselves to Him (VI:331). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6552614 Thu, 29 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT This maxim of neither asking nor refusing anything, which keeps us dependent on God and His guidance, can only be pleasing to God, especially because it destroys human sentiments that, under pretext of zeal and of the glory of God, lead us often to undertake works that he neither inspires nor blesses (VI:331). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6551604 Wed, 28 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT May it please God to maintain this zeal in the Company and to strengthen you more and more so that your zeal, like a tree of life, may always bear fruit of an eternal duration (VI:308). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6550483 Tue, 27 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT May God be pleased to strengthen you with His grace so that, by sanctifying your soul more and more, He will also sanctify, through it, the souls of the people (VI:257). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6549273 Mon, 26 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT I ask Our Lord, whom you serve so effectively, to be Himself your strength so that you may sustain with vigor and merit the exterior and interior trials you are undergoing and receive the reward promised to those who persevere. This reward is so precious that, in comparison, the suffering of this life seemed to the saints to be only diversions (VI:213). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6548341 Sun, 25 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT If there is any good in us and in our manner of living, it comes from God, and it is up to God to manifest it, if he thinks it advisable. As for us, however, we are poor, ignorant, sinful men, who should keep ourselves hidden, as being useless for any good and unworthy of consideration (VI:199). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6547351 Sat, 24 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT Courage, let us be steadfast for now that we are priests, we are obliged to greater perfection and to be of greater assistance to souls (VI:194). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6546227 Fri, 23 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT Was there any one of the Apostles or any one of all the saints who did not need to do violence to himself in order to resist the attacks of the flesh and the world? (VI:193). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6545062 Thu, 22 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT According to the world, peace and health are the treasures of life; according to the state in which you are, they are also two sources of good, since they give you the means of serving God and the people better (VI:188). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6543950 Wed, 21 Mar 2012 00:00:05 EDT There is as much a difference between one vocation and another as between the sun and the moon, or between day and night, because the vocation that does not come from God is only the shadow of a true vocation (VI:176). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6542708 Tue, 20 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT Those who truly love God do not boast about it; on the contrary they fear not loving Him (VI:165). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6541523 Mon, 19 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT May your loving heart belong only to Jesus Christ, fully and always, in time and in eternity (VI:161). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6540596 Sun, 18 Mar 2012 00:00:05 EDT Love is as strong as death and God alone deserves to be loved and served (VI:157). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6539598 Sat, 17 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT You did not give yourself to God to follow your own inclination but to submit to God's guidance (VI:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6538376 Fri, 16 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT You should be no more discouraged with suffering some aversion than travelers are with difficulties or sailors with storms. Each strives calmly to weather them so as to arrive at the place he plans to reach (VI:144). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6537076 Thu, 15 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT God is always the same and deserves to be served now as formerly (VI:144). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6535863 Wed, 14 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT The prosperity of the wicked terminates in shame, and the adversity of the just is turned into glory (VI:140). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6534650 Tue, 13 Mar 2012 00:00:02 EDT After the storm comes the calm, and God who puts to death and raises to life, makes joy follow affliction and the effects of His power fulfill hopes based on His goodness (VI:140). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6533314 Mon, 12 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT Even if you are ridiculed for being different from ordinary people, bless God for giving you the means of bringing down pride and trampling it underfoot (VI:130). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6532460 Sun, 11 Mar 2012 00:00:01 EDT Is it not better to edify those persons by your modesty than by hiding under a piece of fabric for want of humility (VI:130). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6531599 Sat, 10 Mar 2012 01:00:01 EDT Your patience will be crowned and your pains changed into eternal delights (VI:117). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6530411 Fri, 09 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT Since God is all good and all wise, He will turn everything to a greater good (VI:113). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6529323 Thu, 08 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT Not every tree that is planted thrives, and not all the crops sown by the farmer produce (VI:81). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6528207 Wed, 07 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT Is there any virtue that takes precedence over that of risking one's life for the salvation of the neighbor? (VI:72) http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6527146 Tue, 06 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT One of the things required most in a seminary is to have spiritual persons of deep piety to inspire the seminarians with this spirit, for no one can give what he does not have (VI:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6526152 Mon, 05 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT Wherever we go, we always take ourselves and our imperfections with us (VI:69). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6525275 Sun, 04 Mar 2012 01:00:01 EDT The virtue of humility is a good remedy for such antipathies because it makes those who practice it loveable and causes people to have greater esteem for their neighbor then for themselves (VI:51). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6524338 Sat, 03 Mar 2012 01:00:03 EDT Forbearance is the bond of friendship that unites hearts in sentiment and action not only among themselves but in Our Lord, in such a way that they enjoy great peace (VI:51). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6523274 Fri, 02 Mar 2012 01:00:01 EDT Be very faithful to God in your spiritual exercises, acting in such a way as to make yourself ever more pleasing in God's eyes and loving in the eyes of the poor (VI:45). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6522208 Thu, 01 Mar 2012 01:00:02 EDT Persevere in practicing the virtues well in order to go on growing in the love and imitation of Our Lord (VI:45). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6521144 Wed, 29 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT God preserve us from ever aspiring to establish ourselves on the ruins of others (VI:30). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6519963 Tue, 28 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT I ask God also to see fit to remedy the needs of your poor suffering Church now being tried by sickness and poverty (VI:10). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6518848 Mon, 27 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT God's wisdom has so well ordered things in this world that night follows day, sadness joy, and contradiction applause, so that our mind may dwell on God alone, who is above all these changes (VI:1-2). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6517935 Sun, 26 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT Our Lord Himself, who has entrusted you with the care of the family, will be your guide. Since it seems clear enough that He has been so until now, we may hope that it will be He who acts in and through you in the future, both at home and abroad. This presupposes your usual fidelity in consulting Him in your doubts, invoking Him in your needs, following His inspirations, trusting in His goodness, and having no other intention than His glory and good pleasure (V:642). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6517156 Sat, 25 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT We should receive with respect all that God offers us, then examine matters in detail in order to do what is most expedient (V:636). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6516245 Fri, 24 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT Profound humility is needed in order not to be complacent about progress and public applause (V:635). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6515241 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT We should consider that everything done for God is important, convinced that there are no insignificant duties in His house and that the least of them, when entrusted to us, honor us too greatly (V:626). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6514278 Wed, 22 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT God's inspirations are gentle, attractive, and almost imperceptible, whereas the movements of nature and the suggestions of the devil upset and torment the soul by their violence (V:613). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6513302 Tue, 21 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT To belong to God, it is enough to want to belong to Him in the best way His best children can be, honored with the title of servants of the Gospel (V:593). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6512264 Mon, 20 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT How happy are they who give themselves unreservedly to God to do the works that Jesus Christ did and to practice the virtues he practiced (V:585). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6511465 Sun, 19 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT The older I get the more convinced I am [of my unworthiness to be a priest] because day by day I discover how far removed I am from the state of perfection in which I should be living (V:569). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6510621 Sat, 18 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT If I had known what it was when I had the temerity to enter it [the priesthood], I would have preferred to till the soil than to commit myself to such a formidable state of life (V:569). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6509509 Fri, 17 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT How blessed are those who give themselves to God in this way, to do what Jesus Christ did and to practice, after His example, the virtues he practiced: poverty, obedience, humility, patience, zeal, and the other virtues (V:554). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6508397 Thu, 16 Feb 2012 01:00:04 EDT Since you are not being helped by men, you could not do what you are doing without the hand of God, who not only strengthens you in this heavy work, but also touches the hearts of those who come to you (V:544). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6507194 Wed, 15 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT What a great rest God is preparing for you in heaven, since you take so little on earth, where you are consuming your life for the love of Our Lord, who gave His own for our salvation (V:531). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6506152 Tue, 14 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT You will merit just as much by patiently awaiting the Master's will as by doing it when it is made known to you, since you are ready for anything: ready to leave, ready to remain (V:528-529). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6505452 Mon, 13 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT I praise God for the zeal with which your workers are laboring, and for the other graces He bestows on them and, through them, on the people. I ask His Infinite Goodness to grant them the strength of body and mind needed for such an important and arduous ministry as the mission. You are their Moses, raising your hands to heaven while they combat God's enemies, and even their Joshua, sine you fight with them by means of the weapons, assistance and encouragement, and talks you give them (V:505-506). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6504633 Sun, 12 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT When a person is determined to give himself to God without reserve, temporal interests must accommodate themselves to this plan (V:490). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6503980 Sat, 11 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT Since you are entrusting yourself entirely to God's goodness, you must allow God to continue to work through you (V:490). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6503159 Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT Missionaries should strive to remain lowly and unknown and not to make a display and cause others to esteem them (V:485). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6502178 Thu, 09 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT Begin with something small and have great love for your own abjection. This is the spirit of Our Lord and that is how he acted and that is also the means of attracting his graces (V:485). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6501164 Wed, 08 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT We are not true Christians if we do not embrace and cherish tenderly the ridicule that will be heaped upon us (V:483). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6500300 Tue, 07 Feb 2012 01:00:03 EDT You must act in such a way that you are also prompted to trust even more in God, for His grace is sufficient to help you overcome the assaults of rebellious nature (V:473). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6499086 Mon, 06 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT There is no one on earth, no matter how holy, without some inclination to evil. This is the trial of good souls and a subject of merit (V:473). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6498397 Sun, 05 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT A plowman has to wait a long time before seeing the fruits of his plowing, and sometimes he does not see the abundant harvest his sowing has produced (V:463) http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6497564 Sat, 04 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT Since all these graces have been prepared for you, and our good God, who grants them, desires nothing so much as to lavish them on those who truly want to make use of them, what is there to prevent you from being filled with them, destroying by their power all that remains of the old man in you and the darkness and ignorance of sin (V:462). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6496419 Fri, 03 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT You know the will of God cannot be made known to us more clearly in events than when they happen without our intervention or in a way other than we requested (V:459). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6495240 Thu, 02 Feb 2012 01:00:02 EDT Trust firmly in God's guidance and encourage your people to have this trust in the present disturbances; the storm will abate, and the calm will be greater and more pleasing than ever (V:454). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6494287 Wed, 01 Feb 2012 01:00:01 EDT May God be pleased to strengthen you in these hardships, enlighten you in your doubts, and bring you safely to the place where Providence intends to lead your little bark (V:454). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6493319 Tue, 31 Jan 2012 01:00:03 EDT I ask Our Lord to be your light and strength in all the events of this life (V:451). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6492303 Mon, 30 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT God raises up and puts down wherever He pleases and whomsoever He wishes. It is for us to adore His ways and trust in His goodness (V:450). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6491712 Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT God sometimes allows these great disturbances, which unsettle the most secure States, to remind earthly sovereigns that they are answerable to His kingship and are just as dependent as their own subjects (V:449-450). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6490895 Sat, 28 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT Mortification, like all the other virtues, is acquired only by repeated acts (V:443). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6489678 Fri, 27 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT Love one another, bear with one another, support one another and be united in the Spirit of God who has chosen you for this great undertaking and will preserve you for its fulfillment (V:441). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6488803 Thu, 26 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT May God be ever in the center of your heart and give you the strength needed in the present disturbances! (V:435). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6487833 Wed, 25 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT We ask God to guide and possess you entirely in time and eternity (V:452). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6486916 Tue, 24 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT With the strong sustaining the weak, everything would go better (V:423). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6485970 Mon, 23 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT If God were pleased to give this spirit of support and adaptation to each individual, what great union and advantages would this procure for the entire body because we would regard the interest of others as our own! (V:423). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6485117 Sun, 22 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT We are obliged, as Christians, to bear with our neighbor's ill humor and try to temper it (V:412). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6484296 Sat, 21 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT The works of God have their moment; God's providence brings them about at that time and neither sooner nor later (V:400). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6483226 Fri, 20 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT Be assured that it is not improper for priests of the Mission to demand justice for poor slaves so that they may be given what is being held back from them (V:398). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6482284 Thu, 19 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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 spiritually, by establishing the Confraternity of Charity (V:373). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6481287 Wed, 18 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT Young plants cannot produce fruits too soon, and if they do, wise gardeners pluck them off and unburden them of them (V:361). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6480126 Tue, 17 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6479186 Mon, 16 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6478408 Sun, 15 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT We must humble ourselves in our poverty (V:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6477587 Sat, 14 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6476773 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6475818 Thu, 12 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6474818 Wed, 11 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6473857 Tue, 10 Jan 2012 01:00:01 EDT Now the state most pleasing to God is that of perfection, the one Our Lord embraced on earth and has the Apostles embrace it. It consists, among other means, of living in poverty, chastity, obedience and stability in one's vocation (V:315). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6472857 Mon, 09 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6472129 Sun, 08 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT God has been pleased to compose this Little Company of persons of lowly condition and average intelligence. By His mercy, however, they have good will, which, by His grace, is increasing in them daily (V:267). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6471285 Sat, 07 Jan 2012 01:00:02 EDT It is better to look on in wonder and remain silent at the sight of so many and such incomparable acts of kindness (V:263). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6470438 Fri, 06 Jan 2012 00:00:02 EDT Life is short; its end is soon in view and God's judgment is fearsome to those leaving this life, of whom it is said: “They have not fulfilled their obligations; that is why the Lord has placed them among those who commit iniquity” (V:257). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6469533 Thu, 05 Jan 2012 00:00:02 EDT We must not toy with promising things to God and then failing to keep our word to Him (V:256). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6468554 Wed, 04 Jan 2012 00:00:02 EDT If the glory of the world is nothing but smoke, the contrary is solid good, when it is accepted in the right way (V:231). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6467485 Tue, 03 Jan 2012 00:00:02 EDT God's divine goodness is merciful to us when it pleases Him to allow us to encounter blame and public contempt (V:230). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6466679 Mon, 02 Jan 2012 00:00:03 EDT Life is short, the reward is great (V:220). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6466002 Sun, 01 Jan 2012 00:00:01 EDT Nature makes trees put down deep roots before having to bear fruit, and even this is done gradually (V:219). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6465132 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 23:00:02 EDT Our Lord is pleased to deprive us of temporal good; may it please His Divine goodness to give us spiritual ones (V:217). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6464249 Fri, 30 Dec 2011 00:00:03 EDT Act like those good pilots who, finding themselves tossed about by the storm, redouble their courage and turn the prow of their ships against the most furious waves of the sea, which seem to rise to engulf them (V:211). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6463339 Thu, 29 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT I cannot restrain myself and must tell you quite simply that this gives me renewed, greater desires to be able, in the midst of my petty infirmities, to go and finish my life near a bush, working in some village. I think I would be very happy to do so, if God were pleased to grant me this grace (V:204). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6462166 Wed, 28 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT How many open doors to serve Our Lord! Ask Him to send workers into His vineyard (V:180). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6461182 Tue, 27 Dec 2011 00:00:00 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6460422 Mon, 26 Dec 2011 00:00:03 EDT 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). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6459495 Sun, 25 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT You are Daughters of Charity, but you would no longer be so if you lived amid misunderstanding, aversion, or mistrust of one another. God grant that this may not be the case among you (V:169). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6458614 Sat, 24 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT Everyone is disheartened by sharp reprimands and by the most amiable corrections as well (V:167). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6457677 Fri, 23 Dec 2011 01:00:01 EDT Abandon yourself to God's paternal embrace in the hope that He Himself will accomplish in you what He expects of you and will bless whatever you do for Him. Therefore keep your heart ready to receive peace and joy of the Holy Spirit (V:166). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6456633 Thu, 22 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT If you are inclined toward evil you know that God is incomparably more inclined to do good and to do it even in and through you (V:166). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6455454 Wed, 21 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT You have good reason to mistrust yourself, but you have greater reason to put your trust in God (V:166). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6454523 Tue, 20 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT We should hope that God will be more honored by our submission to His providence in awaiting His orders than if we ventured to anticipate them (V:165). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6453702 Mon, 19 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT Continue to offer God your work and to raise your heart to Him, asking Him to bless you and telling Him that you want to be faithful to Him always (V:160). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6452745 Sun, 18 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT There is always great good for those who humble themselves (V:143). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6452012 Sat, 17 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT Young people have more aptitude for foreign languages than the older men who find them very difficult to learn (V:128). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6450950 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT Experience has taught us that those who do not conduct themselves well in community do no better as pastors (V:125). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6450076 Thu, 15 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT We must conform ourselves to the will of God and adore the wisdom of God's ways (V:117). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6449050 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT An honorable man would never abandon his friend in time of need (V:117). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6447919 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT This life is full of annoyances and troubles both of mind and of body; it is a state of continual agitation, which snatches peace of mind from those who think they possess it and eludes those who seek it (V:111). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6446929 Mon, 12 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT I ask God that we may apply ourselves constantly to divine matters and the salvation of our neighbor (V:81). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6445765 Sun, 11 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT My only desire is that God may give us the spirit of profound gratitude for so many benefits bestowed on us (V:81). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6444817 Sat, 10 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT It is a source of consolation to us that Our Lord seems to want to use the Company everywhere for the service and relief of the poorest of the poor (V:66). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6443755 Fri, 09 Dec 2011 00:00:03 EDT The wisest persons, surprised by some passion, often say things they later regret (V:63). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6442699 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT I hope that you will all live in peace in order to advance in virtue, lighten each others' burdens, and be a consolation to one another in your heavy labors (V:58). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6441752 Wed, 07 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT Since God is the Master of the sea and the winds, I ask God to make them favorable to you, to steer the ship wherever you go, to be your guide and pilot, and, in a word, to lead you safely to your destination (V:37). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6440700 Tue, 06 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us continue to offer one another to God and to love each other in Our Lord, as he has loved us (V:28). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6439714 Mon, 05 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us allow God to act; God bring things to completion when we least expect it (V:27). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6438864 Sun, 04 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT Perhaps in heaven you will discover that the good you are doing here is one of the most pleasing things you have ever done for God (V:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6438157 Sat, 03 Dec 2011 00:00:02 EDT It is even strongly to be feared that good accomplished without suffering is not a perfect good (V:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6437088 Fri, 02 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT Good is not good if one does not suffer in doing it (V:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6435976 Thu, 01 Dec 2011 00:00:01 EDT We should be satisfied with striving to omit nothing which can advance God's work and not blame others for the delay (V:7). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6434945 Wed, 30 Nov 2011 01:00:03 EDT I ask God to be Himself the bond of your souls; for in this case nothing will be able to disturb you, Your work will be lighter, your conversations holier, and you and your spiritual exercises more pleasing to God. In a word, your Little Company will be like a little paradise, diffusing a sweet perfume within and outside of it (V:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6433988 Tue, 29 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT It is no surprise that among the Sisters there are some who become discouraged in the thick of temptation (V:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6432991 Mon, 28 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT The inspirations of God are gentle and peace, inclining us lovingly toward the good He desire of us (IV:569). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6432279 Sun, 27 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT Persons who love very much, easily take offense at trifles (IV:558). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6431556 Sat, 26 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT It is better to go beyond the limits of charity than to fail in it (IV:513). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6430798 Fri, 25 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT Spare nothing to save the life of the souls and bodies of those poor people. (IV:511) http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6430073 Thu, 24 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Those who serve the neighbor at the risk of their lives are like unrefined gold, which becomes visible in fire and which would otherwise remain hidden under ordinary actions and sometimes under faults and failings (IV:493). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6429035 Wed, 23 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us never do anything that does not give glory to God, to that end, let us trample underfoot human respect and self-interest (IV:480). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6427888 Tue, 22 Nov 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us work to become very humble, very patient, very mortified, and very charitable. That is the only way to be highly esteemed (IV:479). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6426914 Mon, 21 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT You acquire new merits daily by the unprecedented good you do everywhere and for all sorts of persons (IV:456). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6426124 Sun, 20 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT People devoted to the assistance of their neighbor are using all their energy and alms to snatch the poor from the jaws of death and poor girls from occasions of sin (IV:453). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6425181 Sat, 19 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT I hope that God in his goodness will draw strength from these weaknesses and His glory from our miseries (IV:439). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6424141 Fri, 18 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT God be praised that you are ready to do His Will in all things and everywhere and to go to live and die wherever He chooses to call you (IV:437). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6423002 Thu, 17 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT We can say that this war will be the cause of the damnation of many persons but that God will also make use of it for the grace, the justification, and the glory of many persons (IV:415). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6421925 Wed, 16 Nov 2011 00:00:03 EDT Soup is distributed daily to fourteen or fifteen thousand persons who would die of hunger without this assistance (IV:396). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6420866 Tue, 15 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT We hope from the goodness of God that peace will come (IV:395-396). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6419663 Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT The poor are our portion, and now that they are coming to us, driven out by the hardships of war, which is emptying the countryside, it seems that we are more obliged to work for their salvation in the present affliction in the place where they are now (IV:392). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6418662 Sun, 13 Nov 2011 00:00:00 EDT All our trust must be in God and we must rest assured that nothing will happen to us that God does not allow (IV:393). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6417639 Sat, 12 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Even if the whole world should rise up to destroy us, nothing will happen except what God, in whom we have put our hope, will allow (IV:387). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6416263 Fri, 11 Nov 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us establish ourselves in total dependence on God, trusting that in so doing whatever men say or do against us will turn to the good (IV:387). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6414958 Thu, 10 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT We pray well when we remain in the presence of God, with no exertion of the understanding or will (IV:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6413718 Wed, 09 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT It seems to me that there is no dwelling place comparable to the one to which you aspire-- that of peace and quiet (IV:382). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6412624 Tue, 08 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT What Our Lord guards is well guarded (IV:381). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6411351 Mon, 07 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT If God does not give us peace, we are on the eve of many evils (IV:371). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6410184 Sun, 06 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Courage gentlemen! It is God Himself who has established you in the place and duty where you are. If His glory is your goal, what can you fear, or rather, for what should you not hope (IV:361). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6409052 Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Rarely is any good done without difficulty (IV:361). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6407557 Fri, 04 Nov 2011 00:00:01 EDT By union and counsel we can achieve anything (IV:360). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6406211 Thu, 03 Nov 2011 00:00:04 EDT Lost time can never be recovered, death is approaching, the harvest is great, the workers are few, and Our Lord is relying on you (IV:358). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6404873 Wed, 02 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT It is time for you to follow Our Lord along the narrow path of a life in conformity with your vocation (IV:358). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6403630 Tue, 01 Nov 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us have greater confidence in God than we do; let us allow God to steer our little bark; if it is useful and pleasing to Him, He will save it from shipwreck (IV:347). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6402821 Mon, 31 Oct 2011 11:39:00 EDT If we divested ourselves, once and for all, of all self-will, we would then be in a position of being sure of doing the Will of God (IV:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6400902 Sun, 30 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Our confidence is increasing that God will soon give us peace, according to the maxim that where human means fail, divine operations begin (IV:329). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6399695 Sat, 29 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Happy will we be if God finds us worthy of suffering for justice's sake and if God grants us the grace of loving humiliation and returning good for evil (IV:301). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6398232 Fri, 28 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT God often wants to build lasting benefits on the patience of those who undertake them (IV:290). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6396484 Thu, 27 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT God providence will never fail us as long as we do not fail in His service (IV:284). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6394938 Wed, 26 Oct 2011 00:00:04 EDT God Himself will be your support and your courage, all the more complete since you will have no refuge or trust but in Him alone (IV:283). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6393296 Tue, 25 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT How happy are those who bear their cross lovingly in imitation of the Master (IV:283). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6391857 Mon, 24 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT How happy the man of means who uses his wealth and his life for the greater glory of God, from whom he has received them (IV:267). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6390819 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 23:59:58 EDT We should help and support one another and strive for peace and union among ourselves. This is the wine that cheers and strengthens travelers along this narrow path of Jesus Christ (IV:265). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6389712 Sat, 22 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Live together as having but one heart and one soul so that by this union of spirit you may be a true image of the unity of God (IV:238). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6388256 Fri, 21 Oct 2011 01:00:02 EDT I ask God to give you a twofold share of His Spirit: the first share to unite you to Him, to act in His holy presence and for love of Him; and the other, for the guidance of the souls entrusted to you (IV:220). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6386646 Thu, 20 Oct 2011 00:00:00 EDT I ask Our Lord to redouble your strength, to sustain you with the essence of His Spirit, to gladden you with the hope of His glory and the success of your work, and to fill the family with peace and confidence in His divine guidance (IV:214). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6384951 Wed, 19 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT How pleased Our Lord is with your concern for the relief of His suffering members (IV:202). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6383293 Tue, 18 Oct 2011 00:00:03 EDT Those persons who console you today may humiliate you tomorrow (IV:180). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6381668 Mon, 17 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT God sanctifies souls by crosses, just as He has redeemed them by His own cross (IV:180). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6380278 Sun, 16 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT The better you serve God, the more likely His Goodness will try you (IV:180). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6379040 Sat, 15 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Only the Spirit of God, dwelling in your sacred person, could unite justice with charity (IV:178). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6377595 Fri, 14 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Peace is never so complete that we may not have something to suffer (IV:171). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6376023 Thu, 13 Oct 2011 06:51:00 EDT Money has been given us to work for the salvation of the people (IV:140). http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDeRdh-cdQk http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6374486 Wed, 12 Oct 2011 15:11:00 EDT God determines some things for certain times, which He does not want at others (IV:139). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6373091 Tue, 11 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT There is nothing good that does not meet with opposition and it should not be valued any less because it encounters objections (IV:132). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6371325 Mon, 10 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT God will give you His own Spirit, and by means of His light, you will illuminate souls whom vice and ignorance are keeping in the dark (IV:131). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6369727 Sun, 09 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT While you are making progress in the school of Our Lord, He will give you greater knowledge that what can be found in books (IV:131). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6367973 Sat, 08 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT God will do through you alone what all men put together could not do without him (IV:129). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6366066 Fri, 07 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it (IV:128). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6364120 Thu, 06 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly (IV:128). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6362165 Wed, 05 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT Three can do more than ten when Our Lord puts His hand to things (IV:122). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6360238 Tue, 04 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Put your trust in the Lord and following His example, always act humbly, graciously, and in good faith. You will see that all will go well (IV:122). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6358398 Mon, 03 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let yourself be led by Our Lord; he will govern all things through you (IV:122). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6356782 Sun, 02 Oct 2011 00:00:02 EDT Keep alive your determination to go in search of the lost sheep (IV:118). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6355462 Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:00:01 EDT People look upon you as servants of God and workers of the Gospel. I mean good servants, and that is why you are esteemed and assisted (IV:117). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6353666 Fri, 30 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT May you always be only of one heart and one mind (IV:96). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6351894 Thu, 29 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT How happy are you to be in the state of the beatitude which declares blessed those who suffer persecution for justice's sake (IV:90). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6350263 Wed, 28 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us ask God for the grace for all of us to carry our crosses well so that we may be worthy children of that cross which begot us in His love, and by which we hope to praise him and possess Him forever in the eternity of the ages (IV:88). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6348545 Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Suspicions are often deceiving (IV:85). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6346942 Mon, 26 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT Happy the missionaries who will persevere in the service that is so hard for them but so profitable for the neighbor (IV:80). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6345697 Sun, 25 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us strive to distinguish ourselves from other only by great submission, deference, and the practice of the virtues which constitute a true missionary (IV:62). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6344604 Sat, 24 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT Blessed are those who converse on this earth only to snatch souls from it so as to raise them up to God (IV:57). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6343256 Fri, 23 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT God be praised that people say the Company knows the things of God but knows men very little (IV:57). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6341953 Thu, 22 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT We are more sensitive to pain than to pleasure, to the prick of a rose than to its fragrance (IV:55). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6340738 Wed, 21 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT A spiritual man rises above covetousness and masters it to the point of depriving himself voluntarily of his own satisfactions, but with difficulty do they succeed in truly loving the hurt that comes to them from others (IV:55). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6339695 Tue, 20 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Our principal aim is the instruction of the country people, and the service we render to the ecclesiastical state is merely accessory to that (IV:48). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6338684 Mon, 19 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Give yourself to God and declare to Him that you desire to serve Him in the way most pleasing to Him (IV:37). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6337702 Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT In order to raise a soul to the highest perfection God allows it to pass through dryness, brambles, and combats (IV:37). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6336688 Sat, 17 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT You have already overcome the greatest difficulties, so you must take courage and hope that God will grant you the grace of overcoming the lesser ones (IV:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6335294 Fri, 16 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT Perseverance is needed on the narrow path on which we have entered (IV:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6333967 Thu, 15 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT Nature grows weary of austerity (IV:21). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6332471 Wed, 14 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT We have to borrow money to feed ourselves and for the relief of the poor (IV:19). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6331011 Tue, 13 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT We belong to God and His Providence, ready to comply with His orders as soon as they are made known. Would to Our Lord that they were already known (IV:16). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6329643 Mon, 12 Sep 2011 00:00:03 EDT It is the daily bread, the bread of the elect, which we must often ask of Him and make every effort to bread and share with the children of the house, the poor, so that they may make good use of their poverty and not lose the kingdom that belongs to them (IV:15). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6328362 Sun, 11 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT All officials are jealous of their authority and only with great difficulty do they recover from wounds in such a tender spot, once they think they have been attacked (IV:12). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6326911 Sat, 10 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT The laborers of the Gospel are treasures who deserve to be well taken care of (IV:3). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6325016 Fri, 09 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT There are some persons who are content with everything and others who are scarcely content with anything. These latter need patience to bear with themselves (III:616). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6323301 Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:00:00 EDT We take our temperament with us wherever we go (III:616). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6321548 Wed, 07 Sep 2011 00:00:03 EDT God often delays the conclusion of a holy endeavor so that those involved in it might merit the grace by the length of the work, their patience and their prayers (III:614). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6319981 Tue, 06 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT The works of God are not accomplished when we wish them, but whenever it pleases God (III:613). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6318561 Mon, 05 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Peace is worth more than all worldly possessions (III:612). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6317257 Sun, 04 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT God is our All and leads us to Himself by Himself (III:603). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6315849 Sat, 03 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us honor His poverty, at least by our moderation, if we do not do so by total imitation (III:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6314378 Fri, 02 Sep 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us take care of His affairs and He will take care of ours (III:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6312991 Thu, 01 Sep 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us be more careful to extend the empire of Jesus Christ than our own possessions (III:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6311639 Wed, 31 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT By the grace of God we belong to Him; what else should we desire except to please him? (III:509). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6310166 Tue, 30 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT Our business is to gain heaven; everything else is a sheer waste of time (III:503). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6308599 Mon, 29 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT The poor who do not know where to go or what to do, who are suffering already and who increase daily, are my burden and my sorrow (III:492). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6307211 Sun, 28 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT Remember that the means for acting in a useful manner in your office are mistrust of self and confidence in the Lord who, if He needed the help of men for the successful outcome of His plans, would have put in your place a Doctor and a saint (III:464). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6305816 Sat, 27 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT May God be pleased to give the Company men who are equally zealous in our dear vocation (III:452). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6304136 Fri, 26 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT The day will come when the Company will have greater credibility and support, and those who can do good for it will have greater charity for it than they do now (III:448). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6302518 Thu, 25 Aug 2011 00:00:00 EDT Charity converts necessity into virtue by acquiescing to God's good pleasure in all the afflictions we inevitably suffer (III:398). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6300854 Wed, 24 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us rely on Our Lord and allow Him to act since it is He who governs and not we (III:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6299058 Tue, 23 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT Trials from on high are always salutary (III:385). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6297537 Mon, 22 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT We cannot better assure our eternal happiness than by living and dying in the service of the poor, in the arms of Providence, and with genuine renouncement of ourselves in order to follow Jesus Christ (III:384). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6296106 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT God raises up and humbles us, consoles and afflicts us, according as he sees us disposed to profits by these states (III:382). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6294740 Sat, 20 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT We should take as a maxim never to be surprised at current difficulties, nor more than at a passing breeze, because with a little patience we shall see them disappear. Time changes everything (III:382). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6293312 Fri, 19 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT May He who has set you apart to instruct His people in salvation maintain your flock in doing good and preserve your Church without stain or wrinkle under your guidance (III:377). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6291753 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 00:00:03 EDT The apostolic life does not exclude contemplation but encompasses it and profits by it (III:344). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6290254 Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT If temptations are necessary for everyone, they are also a source of merit for those to whom God grants the grace of turning all things to good (III:342). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6288536 Tue, 16 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT Man's life is nothing but temptation, and no one is exempt from it (III:342). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6286925 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT Here we want to treat our Brothers as servants, even though it is true to say that most of them are more virtuous than most of us (III:319). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6285644 Sun, 14 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT I think the trouble caused in religious Orders by the brothers arises from the fact that they are kept in too lowly a position (III:319). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6284467 Sat, 13 Aug 2011 00:00:05 EDT Honey from your hive flows even into this house and serves as food for its children (III:275). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6283002 Fri, 12 Aug 2011 00:00:03 EDT We are poor people more liable to turn aside His blessings than to draw them down (III:275). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6281444 Thu, 11 Aug 2011 00:00:03 EDT Experience teaches that what is feasible at the beginning is sometimes harmful as things go on (III:272). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6279745 Wed, 10 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT O Divine Goodness, unite in this way all hearts in the Little Company of the Mission, then order whatever you please. Labor will be sweet to them and every task easy; the strong person will relieve the weak one, and the weak will cherish the strong and obtain increased strength for him from God. And so, Lord, Your work will be done as you would like, for the building up of your Church and your workers will multiply, attracted by the perfume of such charity (III:258). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6278153 Tue, 09 Aug 2011 00:00:02 EDT Grace strengthens you in order to sanctify you and sanctifies you so that you might encourage others in the ways of salvation (III:258). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276755 Mon, 08 Aug 2011 00:00:01 EDT You are a prisoner for charity, or, to put it better, a prisoner for Jesus Christ. What a happiness to suffer for this great Monarch, and how many crowns await you if you persevere to the end (III:242). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276586 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:12:00 EDT O God my Lord, please be the bond of their hearts; bring to flower the effects of so many holy affections You cause them to form, and give growth to the fruits of their labors for the salvation of souls. Water with Your eternal blessings this establishment, like a new tree planted by your hand. Strengthen these poor Missionaries in their fatigue. Lastly, my God, be yourself their reward, and through their prayers spread over me your immense mercy (III:241). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276585 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:11:00 EDT All of you desire to belong entirely to God, and God also wants all of you to belong to Him (III:241). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276584 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:11:00 EDT The fears and mistrust you experience come from nature, and only from a distance do they have access to your heart, which is much more generous than that (III:207). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276583 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:10:00 EDT The important thing is to be aware of our weaknesses and to love the humiliation coming from them (III:207). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276582 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:10:00 EDT What reason can you have for becoming discouraged when things do not turn out right for you (III:207). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276581 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:09:00 EDT Let us believe that all is going along the best in the world when we take no satisfaction in it (III:206). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6276580 Sun, 07 Aug 2011 21:09:00 EDT Since God is satisfied with our good will and honest efforts, let us also be satisfied with the outcome He gives to them (III:206). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6264406 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 23:00:02 EDT What would it be like if everything were favorable to us, and what right have poor people like us to expect that we will always be successful (III:206). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6263209 Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT The Church has enough solitaries: her great need is evangelical men who work to purge, enlighten, and unite the Church to her Divine Spouse (III:204). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6262013 Fri, 29 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT I beg Our Lord to bind all of us together in His pure love, so that together we may love Him uniquely, strongly, and eternally (III:203). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6260793 Thu, 28 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Conscience urges me to limit myself to what I can do and to honor the omnipotence of God by recognition of my own powerlessness (III:198). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6259491 Wed, 27 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT Grace imitates nature in many things, making them ugly and unpleasant, but with time she perfects them (III:191-192). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6258055 Tue, 26 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT May your heart ever taste the sweetness of that of Our Lord (III:190). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6256775 Mon, 25 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT God's good pleasure is that those blessed, chosen souls, whom He loves so dearly, should be tempted and afflicted daily (III:182). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6255669 Sun, 24 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT When I hear that you are living as true Daughters of Charity my consolation is increased to the extent that only God alone can make you realize (III:181). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6254501 Sat, 23 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT There is no lot in life where there is nothing to be endured (III:173). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6253085 Fri, 22 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT We should be satisfied with the state in which we have been placed by the designs of Providence, and in which God blesses us (III:173). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6251599 Thu, 21 Jul 2011 00:00:04 EDT Losing this person [Lambert aux Couteaux] is like plucking out one of my own eyes or cutting off my arm (III:169). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6250147 Wed, 20 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us be steadfast in this precious trust in God, the Strength of the weak and the Eye of the blind (III:159). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6248587 Tue, 19 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT Things have to be done gradually. Grace has it small beginning and its progress (III:157). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6247145 Mon, 18 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us be steadfast and always walk in the ways of God without coming to a standstill (CDD III:157). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6245762 Sun, 17 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us work courageously and lovingly for such a good Master as ours; let us imitate Him in His virtues (III:154). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6244479 Sat, 16 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT We owe obedience to the bishops in all things pertaining to our work in the missions, with ordinands, etc, but the spiritual and internal direction belongs to the Superior General (III:153). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6241448 Thu, 14 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Consider Our Lord close by you and within you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you call upon Him for help (III:143). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6239915 Wed, 13 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Mistrust of your own strength must be the basis for the trust you should have in God (III:143). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6238466 Tue, 12 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT May your words be like seeds sown in their hearts, bearing a hundredfold the fruits of charity and good example to the poor faithful (III:140). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6237007 Mon, 11 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT Remember that you have God with you, that He fights along with you, and that you will certainly overcome (III:138). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6235724 Sun, 10 Jul 2011 00:00:00 EDT Be hopeful that in proportion as difficulties increase, God will increase His grace for you (III:136). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6234295 Sat, 09 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT Trust fearlessly in God who has called you and you will see that all will go well (III:136). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6232593 Fri, 08 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT Where human assistance is lacking, God's abounds (III:135). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6230966 Thu, 07 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT The persons who wants to cure bodily ills and restore health must administer the remedies gradually (III:124). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6229332 Wed, 06 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Practice the divine virtue of patience and submission to His good pleasure. It is the touchstone by which He tries you and by it He leads you to His own pure love (III:120). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6227634 Tue, 05 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Trials bear the special mark of God's goodness (III:120). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6225950 Mon, 04 Jul 2011 00:00:02 EDT Things arrange themselves with time. Only God can have everything to His liking (III:115). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6224277 Sun, 03 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT What a strange demon is vanity of the mind! (III:108). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6222756 Sat, 02 Jul 2011 00:00:01 EDT Virtue is not found in extremes, but in prudence (III:102). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6221093 Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:00:03 EDT It is not so important for us to live a long time as to continue in the vocation to which God has called us and to abide by what we have promised God (III:97). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6219379 Thu, 30 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT We should relinquish to others the good works they offer to do, in the belief, with good reason, that they will do them better than we (III:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6217873 Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT Our Lord's work is accomplished not so much by the multitude of workers as by the fidelity of the small number whom He calls (III:67). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6216213 Tue, 28 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT How many demons the prince of demons has assigned to tempt you (III:50). http://vinformation.famvin.org/ http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6213451 Sun, 26 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT Ask God to sanctify your dear soul more and more so that, always and in all things, you may act in a holy manner (III:46). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6211806 Sat, 25 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT What price there would be if, under the guise of deference and humility, we were to abandon the honor of God so as not to risk our own (III:44). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6210031 Fri, 24 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us not be so little attached to God's service that we yield to a useless fear which may cause us to abandon the task He has given us (III:44). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6208502 Thu, 23 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT The maxim of the Company is to prefer to suffer a loss rather than go to court (III:42). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6206993 Wed, 22 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT Now these losses of the Church in the past hundred years give us reason to fear in the present misfortune that in another hundred years we may lose the church entirely in Europe (III:41). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6205469 Tue, 21 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT I hope Our Lord will look upon the little we have attempted to do as proceeding from charity (III:33). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6204034 Mon, 20 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT I recommend my soul to you that God may be pleased to make it a sharer in the good you are doing (III:25). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6202807 Sun, 19 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT It is true that illness, far better than health, makes us see what we are (II:623). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6201710 Sat, 18 Jun 2011 00:00:00 EDT Remember that Our Lord is the strength and wisdom of those whom He employs (II:605). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6200468 Fri, 17 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT There are certain persons who are like millstones turning without any wheat; they catch fire and burn down the mill (II:588). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6199110 Thu, 16 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us work at storing up good works which we can present to God on that great day (II:569). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6198024 Wed, 15 Jun 2011 00:00:04 EDT Oh! What a great evil war is (II:545). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6196677 Tue, 14 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT He who is hasty falls back in the interests of God (II:521). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6195524 Mon, 13 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT Wisdom consists in following Providence step by step (II:521). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6194628 Sun, 12 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT The things of God come about by themselves (II:521). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6193708 Sat, 11 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT What usually deceives us is the appearance of good according to human reason, which never or rarely attains the divine (II;520). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6192558 Fri, 10 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT Do not let yourself get carried away by the impetuosity of your impulsive ideas (II:520). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6191480 Thu, 09 Jun 2011 00:00:04 EDT Let us abandon ourselves to the direction of God's loving Providence, and we shall be safe from all sorts of inconveniences that our haste may draw down on us (II:517). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6190167 Wed, 08 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us keep ourselves always dependent on God's Providence since it pleases him and He sees what is best for us (II:517). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6188830 Tue, 07 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT Be most cordial with everyone and spare nothing for the assistance of the sick members of the Company (II:499). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6187683 Mon, 06 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us abandon ourselves to the Providence of God and be on our guard against anticipating it (II:499). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6186741 Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:00:02 EDT Grace has its moments (II:499). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6185684 Sat, 04 Jun 2011 00:00:04 EDT What great missionaries you and I would be if we only knew how to animate souls with the spirit of the Gospel which should make them conformable to Jesus Christ (II:494). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6184422 Fri, 03 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT There is a great difference between being a Catholic and being an upright man (II:494). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6182662 Thu, 02 Jun 2011 00:00:01 EDT Excess in the practice of virtue is no less imperfect than the lack of it (II:471). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6179164 Wed, 01 Jun 2011 00:00:03 EDT Good living and the good odor of the Christian virtues put into practice draw the black sheep back to the right path and confirm Catholics on it (II:442). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6175639 Tue, 31 May 2011 00:00:07 EDT I no more trust in human means for divine ends that I do in the devil (II:433). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6172195 Mon, 30 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT The works of God are not sumptuous or showy (II:427). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6169000 Sun, 29 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT The downfall of most communities comes from the cowardice of superiors in not holding firm and in not purging them of the troublesome and incorrigible (II:422). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6165534 Sat, 28 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us purge the company of worldly persons and those who are not pleasing in the eyes of God (II:421). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6161794 Fri, 27 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT Whoever contributes to union of hearts in a company binds it indissolubly to God (II:413). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6158039 Thu, 26 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT Charity is the cement that binds communities to God and persons to one another (II:413). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6153999 Wed, 25 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT We can find no more effective means of letting people see the beauty and holiness of the Catholic religion than by hospitality shown to the sick (II:407). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6150290 Tue, 24 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT When I said that you must be unwavering as to the end and gentle as to the means, I am describing to you the soul of good leadership (II:403). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6146417 Mon, 23 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT Do not be constrained by the majority opinion. Chose the one that seems best to you, or your own, provided you give an account of this (II:403). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6142782 Sun, 22 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT All that contributes to the ruin of charity comes from the evil spirit (II:401). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6138870 Sat, 21 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT How happy are those who give themselves to God without reserve to do the works Jesus Christ did and to practice the virtues He practiced (II:389). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6134979 Fri, 20 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT The poor common people are starving for the Word of God and are being allowed to die of hunger (II:369). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6130948 Thu, 19 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT The misery of the war is really cooling the enthusiasm of those who could make a contribution (II:358). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6128175 Wed, 18 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT Our Lord humbles in order to raise up and allows the suffering of interior and exterior afflictions in order to bring about peace (II:350). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6125250 Tue, 17 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT One must be firm and unchanging with regard to the end but gentle and humble as to the means (II:332). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6121536 Mon, 16 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT The maxims of Jesus Christ and the examples of His life are not misleading: they produce their fruit in due time (II:316). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6118031 Sun, 15 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT God's Divine Goodness asks that we never do good in any place to make ourselves look important (II:315). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6114273 Sat, 14 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT Good work, sooner or later speak a much more favorable language than anything done for one’s own ostentation and show (II:311). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6110426 Fri, 13 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT If necessity urges us to make haste, then let it be slowly (II:310). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6106480 Thu, 12 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT The way to make a tree grow very tall is to lop off its branches (II:310). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6102510 Wed, 11 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT This Company, like Our Lord, takes spiritual and temporal care of the sick poor (II:306). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6098362 Tue, 10 May 2011 00:00:01 EDT God has preserved you as the apple of His eye (II:290). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6094474 Mon, 09 May 2011 00:00:03 EDT Would that God had rendered us worthy of spending our lives, as Our Lord did, for the salvation those poor souls so far removed from all assistance (II:288). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6090744 Sun, 08 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT When His Holiness chooses to send the Company to those countries, it will drop everything and go most willingly (II:288). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6086896 Sat, 07 May 2011 00:00:05 EDT Our Lord has turned to you for the sustenance of the poor (II:285). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6082885 Fri, 06 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT The spirit of God proceeds discreetly and always humbly (II:178). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6078577 Thu, 05 May 2011 00:00:04 EDT In the seminary there is more need of piety and passable knowledge with an understanding of chant, ceremonies, preaching and the teaching of catechism than of a great deal of doctrine (II:266). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6074378 Wed, 04 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT The spirit of the Mission must be to seek its greatness in lowliness and its reputation in the love of its abjection (II:265). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6070160 Tue, 03 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us trust that Our Lord will bring about what He wishes to have done among us (II:237). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6066132 Mon, 02 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT It is a maxim of ours to work in the service of the people, with the good pleasure of the pastors, and never to act contrary to their wishes (II:226). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6062464 Sun, 01 May 2011 00:00:02 EDT In order to become soundly virtuous it is advisable to make good practical resolution concerning particular acts of the virtues and to be faithful in carrying them out afterward. Without doing that, one is often virtuous only in one’s imagination (II:217). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6058705 Sat, 30 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT Take care of your poor life. Be content with consuming it little by little for Divine Love. It is not your own; it belong to the Author of Life, for love of whom you must preserve it until He asks it of you (II:211). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6055064 Fri, 29 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT God compensates for and accomplishes in a divine way what men and women are not able to do in a human way (II:199). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6051240 Thu, 28 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT Although you do not have so many talents, Our Lord will increase them for you, if He chooses (II:191). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6047257 Wed, 27 Apr 2011 00:00:03 EDT Your concerns do not depend on a house, but on the continuation of God’s blessing on the work (II:189). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6044264 Tue, 26 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT I cannot tell you how much alms have diminished here and the difficulty of finding any loans. Everyone is being affected by the misery of the age (II:171). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6040559 Mon, 25 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT I Beg Our Lord to reward you and to increase His love in you (II:169). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6037070 Sun, 24 Apr 2011 00:00:05 EDT How good God is to those who detach themselves from the affections of the world to unite themselves to Him (II:160). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6033505 Sat, 23 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT Zeal which goes outside the enclosure of love of the neighbor is no longer zeal, but the passion of antipathy (II:157). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6029730 Fri, 22 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT It is God’s plan that those who are to help others spiritually fall into the temptation of mind and body by which others can be tormented (II:152-153). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6025831 Thu, 21 Apr 2011 00:00:05 EDT On God’s road, not to advance is to fall back since one never remains in the same condition (II:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6022657 Wed, 20 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT Perfection consists in a constant perseverance to acquire the virtues and become proficient in their practice (II:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6019546 Tue, 19 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT Always remember that in the spiritual life little account is taken of the beginnings. People attach importance to the progress and the end (II:146). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6016622 Mon, 18 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT Have great confidence in God, really give yourself to Him so that he may direct you and be Himself the Superior (II:140). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6013816 Sun, 17 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT Let us set about stripping ourselves entirely of affection for anything that is not God, be attached to things only for God and according to God, and let us seek and establish his kingdom first of all in ourselves, and then in others (II:122). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6010867 Sat, 16 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT We must endeavor to have God reign sovereigly in us, and then in others (II:113). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6007686 Fri, 15 Apr 2011 00:00:05 EDT We must make a rule that they may not, under any pretext whatsoever, eat what is intended for the poor (II:107). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6004502 Thu, 14 Apr 2011 00:00:04 EDT Our Lord proclaims the idleness and sensuality of Magdalen to be more agreeable to Him than the less considerate zeal of Martha (II:85). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=6001511 Wed, 13 Apr 2011 00:00:04 EDT Zeal is the soul of the virtues (II:84). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5998425 Tue, 12 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT It is easy to go from deficiency to excess of the virtues, from being just to becoming rigid, and from zealous to inconsiderate (II:84). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5995395 Mon, 11 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT There is no act of charity that is not accompanied by justice or that permits us to more than we reasonably can (II:68). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5992789 Sun, 10 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT How little it takes to be very holy: to do the Will of God in all things (II:47). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5990326 Sat, 09 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT Roses are not gathered except in the midst of thorns, and heroic acts of virtue are accomplished only in weakness (II:22). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5988055 Fri, 08 Apr 2011 00:00:05 EDT Was it not necessary for Christ to be humbled and brought low before men in order to get him to accept the gentle yoke of His dominion and guidance (II:7). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5985080 Thu, 07 Apr 2011 00:00:04 EDT A priest should be more perfect than a religious as such, and a bishop even more so (II:5). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5982232 Wed, 06 Apr 2011 00:00:00 EDT We must hold as an irrefutable maxim that the difficulties we have with our neighbor arise more from our immortified moods than from anything else (I:597). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5979255 Tue, 05 Apr 2011 00:00:01 EDT We should prefer those who are most exacting to those who subscribe to our moods (I:597). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5976492 Mon, 04 Apr 2011 00:00:02 EDT The works God himself is accomplishing are never spoiled by the inactivity of men and women (I:588). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5973811 Sun, 03 Apr 2011 00:00:03 EDT God takes away the fear of death from those who have feared it during their life and who have practiced charity toward the poor (I:587). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5971034 Sat, 02 Apr 2011 00:00:05 EDT We must act against what is painful and either break our heart or soften it to get it ready for anything (I:579). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5968646 Fri, 01 Apr 2011 00:00:04 EDT No matter where we are or what we are doing, we will always be tempted and distressed; that is our cross. If we wish to follow Jesus Christ, we must carry it (I:562). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5966102 Thu, 31 Mar 2011 00:00:04 EDT God is sovereignly glorified by our abandonment to His direction, without our discussing the reason for His Will, except to say that His Will is His reason and His reason is His Will (I:551). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5963114 Wed, 30 Mar 2011 00:00:04 EDT Do not be afraid and let us not be in a hurry (I:549). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5960104 Tue, 29 Mar 2011 00:00:04 EDT There is no means of profiting by preaching if one does not preach from the depths of compassion (I:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5957344 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT There is no means of profiting by preaching if one does not preach from the depths of compassion (I:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5957342 Mon, 28 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT Bitterness has never served any purpose but to embitter (I:526). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5954695 Sun, 27 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT Grant us the grace to put ourselves in the last place among men and to keep ourselves there (I:524-525). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5951982 Sat, 26 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT What good will it do us to possess humility with regard to our person if we take pride in our state (I:524). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5949062 Fri, 25 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT That type of illness does not need remedies so much as patience, gentleness, and cheerfulness of mind (I:523). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5946881 Thu, 24 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT Everyone says that the missionary spirit is one of humility and simplicity...take hold of it (I:518). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5944621 Wed, 23 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT They shall try to do good to the souls of the poor while taking care of their bodies (I:504). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5941947 Tue, 22 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT Most willingly do I pray Our Lord to give His holy blessing to our dear Sisters and to grant them a share in the spirit He gave to the holy women who accompanied and cooperated with Him in assisting the sick poor and instructing children (I:503). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5939514 Mon, 21 Mar 2011 00:00:05 EDT This moderate care for our health does not preclude the obligation we have of generously risking our lives when the salvation of our neighbor is concerned (I:491). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5937072 Sun, 20 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT May God make you absolute master of yourself so that you have only one and the same will with God (I:491). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5934816 Sat, 19 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us be truly submissive to His good pleasure in the situation of the moment (I:484). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5932362 Fri, 18 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT When in Rome, you must do as the Romans do and accept the local customs (I:475). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5929846 Thu, 17 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT Judge whether the prickly thorns of our human nature do not produce fine roses; they blossom as soon as the sun of justice sheds the rays of its grace upon them (I:404). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5927377 Wed, 16 Mar 2011 00:00:05 EDT The most important thing is to have good bread (I:378). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5923277 Tue, 15 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT Try not to rush around, but do everything gently (I:375). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5920746 Mon, 14 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT There will be two of you for the work, Our Lord and you, and with Him you can do all things (I:369). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5918743 Sun, 13 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT You must make good use of your health at the present in order to preserve it and fortify it so as to be able to do something else in time (I:355). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5916842 Sat, 12 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT We are fortunate enough to resemble Our Lord by going, like Him, now to one place, now to another, to assist the neighbor (I:353). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5914628 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT God is the Master and does all for the best. Let us leave the care of everything to Him (I:350). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5912818 Thu, 10 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT We must give our attention mainly to the poor villages, because as far as the towns are concerned, it will never be any different. We are deluding ourselves by dallying in them (I:347). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5910938 Wed, 09 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT Grace is necessary to begin and we need more to persevere to the end (I:346). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5908913 Tue, 08 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT We are lost in admiration at seeing how Providence thinks of your concerns and provides for all that you need (I:346). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5906876 Mon, 07 Mar 2011 00:00:01 EDT Our days are numbered and we cannot add a moment of life to the last one God has determined for us (I:346). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5905323 Sun, 06 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT He whom from all eternity has chosen you to assist the poor will preserve you as the apple of His eye (I:346). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5903699 Sat, 05 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT As for servants, you must pay them great honor and treat them kindly, cordially, and most respectfully (I:344). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5901622 Fri, 04 Mar 2011 00:00:03 EDT The good God, who has ordinarily provided you with everything at the right moment, will not abandon you now (I:342). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5899629 Thu, 03 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT How true it is that the world is filled with misery! Courage, we must put up with our own and with that of others as long as God pleases (I:340). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5897662 Wed, 02 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT Sick minds need to be cared for more delicately and charitably than people who are physically ill (I:332). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5895613 Tue, 01 Mar 2011 00:00:02 EDT In His admirable Providence, Our Lord allows holy fathers and mothers to suffer anguish from their own flesh and blood (I:315). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5893601 Mon, 28 Feb 2011 00:00:00 EDT Remember that the faults of the children are not always imputed to the parents, especially when they have had them educated and have given them good example (I:314). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5892017 Sun, 27 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT I cannot tell you how much the poor have need of your living a long time (I:307). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5890442 Sat, 26 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT How I fear large numbers and expansion. What reason we have to praise God for allowing us to honor the small number of the disciples of His Son (I:304). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5888314 Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:00:04 EDT We are like the servants of the centurion in the gospel with regard to bishops, insofar as when they say to us: go, we are obliged to go; if they say: come, we are obliged to come; do that, and we are obliged to do it (I:297). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5886380 Thu, 24 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT Do not be afraid of undertaking too much of what you can do without coming and going; but fear only the thought of doing more than you are doing and more than God is giving you the means to do (I:290). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5884177 Wed, 23 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT People will never believe in us if we do not show love and compassion to those whom we wish to believe in us (I:277). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5881820 Tue, 22 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT We do not believe people because they are very learned but because we consider them good and love them (I:276). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5879609 Mon, 21 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT Remember, we live in Jesus Christ through the death of Jesus Christ, and we must die in Jesus Christ through the life of Jesus Christ, and our life must be hidden in Jesus Christ and filled with Jesus Christ, and in order to die as Jesus Christ, we must live in Jesus Christ (I:276). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5877517 Sun, 20 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT Must not a priest die of shame for claiming a reputation in the service he gives God and for dying in his bed, when he sees Jesus Christ rewarded for his work by disgrace and the gibbet (I:276). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5875423 Sat, 19 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT You have been chosen from all eternity by the Providence of God to be their second redeemer, have pity on them! (I:245). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5873167 Fri, 18 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT All things come to those who wait (I:234). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5870473 Thu, 17 Feb 2011 00:00:04 EDT Our Lord is a continual communion for those who are united to what He wills and does not will (I:233). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5867710 Wed, 16 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT It is good pleasure that we adapt ourselves to people's moods, to places and to times (I:238). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5865241 Tue, 15 Feb 2011 09:36:00 EDT Let us draw our strength from our weakness which serves as a reason for Our Lord to become Himself our strength (I:226). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5862965 Mon, 14 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT All the Orders in the Church have the same end, which is charity (I:222). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5860993 Sun, 13 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT I praise God for He is so good as to raise up in this century so many good and holy souls for the assistance of the poor common people. (I:222) http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5858995 Sat, 12 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT May Our Lord be in our hearts and our hearts in His (I:213). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5856838 Fri, 11 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT It is well to take notice of the more ardent affection that agitate your heart so that you can do your best to regulate them by the standard of the holy and ever-adorable Will of God (I:212). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5854596 Thu, 10 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT Honor God’s holy Providence in your conduct by not hurrying or bustling about (I:211). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5852345 Wed, 09 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT How fortunate we are to honor the poor family of Our Lord by the poverty and lowliness of our own (I:206). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5850181 Tue, 08 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT God does not consider the outcome of the good work undertaken but the charity that accompanied it (I:205). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5848123 Mon, 07 Feb 2011 00:00:04 EDT Humility … may this be our password (I:169). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5846117 Sun, 06 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let us strive to rid ourselves of this miserable sensuality which makes us prisoners of its whims (I:179). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5844196 Sat, 05 Feb 2011 00:00:03 EDT Honor the prudence, foresight, meekness, and the exactitude of Our Lord (I:178). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5842051 Fri, 04 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT Let us try to act rightly that we shall have reason to trust in the infinite goodness of the Auditor of our Life, our Sovereign Judge (I:172). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5839982 Thu, 03 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT The countryside is so vast! There are people by the thousand filling up hell. All the ecclesiastics, with all the religious, would not suffice to remedy this misfortune (I:166). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5837976 Wed, 02 Feb 2011 00:00:02 EDT Beg the Lord to bind your hearts together into one, which will be His own, and to strengthen you in your work (I:163). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5835516 Tue, 01 Feb 2011 00:00:01 EDT Place yourself complete in that holy love which is brought about by trust in God and mistrust of oneself (I:150). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5833365 Mon, 31 Jan 2011 00:00:03 EDT Oh, what great reason people of good will have to be cheerful (I:145). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5831454 Sun, 30 Jan 2011 00:00:01 EDT How admirable and adorable are thw way by which God leads his own (I:123). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5829416 Sat, 29 Jan 2011 00:00:03 EDT The spirit of Our Lord will be your rule (I:118). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5826998 Fri, 28 Jan 2011 00:00:00 EDT You must make it understood that the poor are being damned for want of knowing the things necessary for salvation (I:112). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5824630 Thu, 27 Jan 2011 00:00:02 EDT How fortunate you are to walk on the ground where so many great and holy individuals have trod (I:112). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5822297 Wed, 26 Jan 2011 00:00:04 EDT The kingdom of God is peace in the Holy Spirit (I:111). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5820054 Tue, 25 Jan 2011 00:00:04 EDT You are trying to become the servant of those poor young women and God wants you to be His own (I:111). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5817853 Mon, 24 Jan 2011 00:00:04 EDT You are, as it were, on a stage upon which one act of bitterness is capable of spoiling everything (I:110). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5816129 Sun, 23 Jan 2011 00:00:03 EDT Let there appear no sign of division between you (I:110). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5814131 Sat, 22 Jan 2011 00:00:01 EDT Do you think you will become more capable of drawing near to God by withdrawing from Him than you will by approaching Him? (I:108). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5811758 Fri, 21 Jan 2011 00:00:02 EDT The spirit of God urges one gently to do the good that can be done reasonably, so that it may be done perseveringly and for a long time (I:92). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5809367 Thu, 20 Jan 2011 00:00:04 EDT God is love and wants us to go to Him through love (I:81). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5806794 Wed, 19 Jan 2011 00:00:03 EDT Our Lord wants us to serve Him with common sense and the opposite is called indiscreet zeal (I:79). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5804551 Tue, 18 Jan 2011 00:00:02 EDT One beautiful diamond is worth more than a mountain of stones, and one virtuous act of acquiescence and submission is better than an abundance of good works done for others (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5802265 Mon, 17 Jan 2011 00:00:02 EDT Our Lord will perhaps draw more glory from your submission than from all the good you could do (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5800000 Sun, 16 Jan 2011 00:00:04 EDT It is very difficult to do any good without conflict (I:75). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5797459 Sat, 15 Jan 2011 00:00:01 EDT You belong to Our Lord and His holy Mother, cling to them and to the state in which they have placed you (I:71). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5794849 Fri, 14 Jan 2011 00:00:01 EDT May God be pleased to give you His spirit and the grace to act in this same spirit and to bear your troubles in the way He bore his (I:65). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5792435 Thu, 13 Jan 2011 00:00:03 EDT I pray that His Divine Goodness may accompany you, be your consolation along the way, your shared against the heat of the sun, your shelter in rain and cold, your soft bed in your weariness, your strength in your toil and finally, that He may bring you back in perfect health and filled with good works (I:65). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5789842 Wed, 12 Jan 2011 00:00:01 EDT What great hidden treasures there are in holy Providence and how marvelously Our Lord is honored by those who follow it (I:59). http://vinformation.famvin.org http://feeds.rapidfeeds.com/?iid4ct=5788551 Fri, 11 Mar 2011 10:36:00 EDT