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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

John Vianney

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary – a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.
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Body Experience Fragrance Holy Joy Thrill
The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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Angel Conscious God Imitation Presence
How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
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Accompany Angel Happiness Holy
The saints had no hatred, no bitterness; they forgive everything and think they deserve much more for their offenses against God.
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Bitter Deserve Forgiveness God Hate Offend
When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.
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Blessing Fragrance Hands Herself Prayer Touch
If people would do for God what they do for the world, what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.
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God Heaven Number People World
When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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Envelope Holy Love Soul
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
Christian wife! Follow in the footsteps of the ideal of all womanhood, the Blessed Mother of God; in joy and in sorrow, she will be your advocate at the throne of her Son.
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Herself Ideal Joy Sorrow Woman
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
We ought to ask the Blessed Virgin, the angels, and the saints to pray for us that we may receive the good God as worthily as it is possible for us to receive him.
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Angel Blessing God Goodness Himself Possible Worth
If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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Goodness Impossible Prayer Yourself
The Lord is more anxious to forgive our sins than a woman is to carry her baby out of a burning building.
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Anxiety Build Burn Carry Forgiveness God Sin Woman

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