Quote of the Day – April 27: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 26: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 25: The suffering of Our Lord caused His words to bear fruit, and your crosses will likewise cause the seed you sow to bear fruit in hearts (V:547).
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Quote of the Day – April 23: I ask Our Lord to be your first and second assistant in the other missions you are going to undertake (V:534).
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Quote of the Day – April 22: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 21: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 20: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 19: When a person is determined to give himself to God without reserve, temporal interests must accommodate themselves to this plan (V:490).
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Quote of the Day – April 18: Since you are entrusting yourself entirely to God’s goodness, you must allow God to continue to work through you (V:490).
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Quote of the Day – April 17: Missionaries should strive to remain lowly and unknown and not to make a display and cause others to esteem them (V:485).
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Quote of the Day – April 16: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 15: We are not true Christians if we do not embrace and cherish tenderly the ridicule that will be heaped upon us (V:483).
Quote of the Day – April 14: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 13: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 12: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 11: 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)
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Quote of the Day – April 10: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 9: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 8: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 7: I ask Our Lord to be your light and strength in all the events of this life (V:451).
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Quote of the Day – April 6: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 5: 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).
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Quote of the Day – April 4: Mortification, like all the other virtues, is acquired only by repeated acts (V:443).
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Quote of the Day – April 1: We ask God to guide and possess you entirely in time and eternity (V:452).
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Quote of the Day – April 2: May God be ever in the center of your heart and give you the strength needed in the present disturbances! (V:435).
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Quote of the Day – April 3: 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).
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