God sometimes seems to ask the impossible, a sorrow, a cross. Oh! it would crush me! How can this be? How? Lord, …
Virtues
April 23, 2016
A mother puts her little child on its feet, but the child itself must do something, must make an effort if it …
April 22, 2016
This morning I lay awake powerless to over come myself and to make my promised visit to the chapel. Then I felt …
April 21, 2016
“They forgot God who saved them” (Psalm 105, 21). To how many may not these words be applied today! How many there …
April 20, 2016
St Maximilian Kolbe in the concentration camp starvation bunker If I were put in a dungeon, like the martyrs, with nothing to …
April 19, 2016
I have just returned from a mission. Before going I made up my mind to give up for the week my …
April 18, 2016
What more insignificant than the ordinary daily duties of religious life! Each succeeding hour brings with it some allotted task, yet in …
April 15, 2016
If you are not yet strong enough to seek humiliations, just accept the little reverses that come. When you say or do …
April 9, 2016
I wish I could write to you at length about grace. It is a fascinating subject. You are quite right in calling …
April 8, 2016
No one is holy who is not fervent. But the fervour of the holy is not an impetuous, noviciate first-fervour, which does …
April 6, 2016