ONE of the forms in which we should practice gentleness regards ourselves, in never growing irritable with ourselves on our imperfections; for, although, in reason
ABANDONMENT is the virtue of virtues; it is the cream of charity, the fragrance of humility, the sweetness of patience, and the fruit of perseverance.
CONSIDER the love with which Jesus Christ Our Lord suffered so much in this world, particularly in the Garden of Olives, and on Mount Calvary.
The first purification to be made is that of sin, and the means—the holy Sacrament of Penance. Seek the best confessor that you can, take some one of the books prepared for the aid of conscience, read it carefully, and observe minutely wherein you have sinned from the earliest period up to the present time,
All the children of Israel actually departed from Egypt, but they did not all depart heartily, wherefore in the desert some of them regretted the flesh, the melons, the leeks, and onions of Egypt. (Num. 11). And so some penitents, though they forsake sin outwardly,
Preparation 1. Place thyself in the presence of God. 2. Prostrate thyself before Him, and seek His aid.
THESE first four days of the holy season of Lent serve as a preface to indicate the preparation that we ought to make in order
In the creation God commanded the plants of the earth to bring forth fruit, each after its kind; and in a similar way He commands
Saint Francis de Sales spoke the following words in a Christmas Eve Sermon on December 24, 1613. The below sermon is presented in a shorter
As the great St. Ambrose says, truly one must be clothed and armed on all sides with humility if one wishes to enter into the
The bed of the sick is an altar of sacrifice…Happy is the just man who disturbs not the sacrifice by his murmurs and his cries,
These temporal years pass away; the months are reduced to weeks, the weeks to days, the days to hours, and the hours to moments, which
We must have our mind settled on two points: one, to expect the growth of weeds in our garden; the other, to have courage to
I find in the Gospel a perfect model of this virtue in the person of St. Peter’s mother-in-law. This good woman, attacked by a heavy
Nothing disturbs us so much as self-love and self-esteem. If our heart does not overflow with tender emotions, if our mind does not teem with
As a gentle mother, leading her little child with her, helps it to walk, carries it according as she sees necessity, allows it to make
“If sin abounds in malice to destroy, grace superabounds to repair.” -St. Francis de Sales The entrance of sin takes away life from the heart
Among the praises given by the saints to Abraham, St. Paul mentions this above every other, that he believed, hoping against all hope. God has
Our Lord, the great and excellent physician of our infirmities, announced everywhere, before coming into this world, both His arrival and the maladies He would
The feast of the Purification has no octave; it should continue our whole life. We must have our mind settled on two points; one, to
Sermon for Good Friday, March 25, 1622, concerning the brass serpent which saved the Israelites, the sinlessness of Christ, the manner in which He redeemed
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