How happy is that guardian angel who accompanies a soul to Holy Mass!
JOHN VIANNEYOur Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere. We ought often to invoke them.
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To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.
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If you are attached to the things of this earth, you should give alms sufficient to enable you to punish your avarice by depriving yourself of all that is not absolutely necessary for life.
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The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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The virtue of obedience makes the will supple… It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.
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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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When we have been to Holy Communion, the balm of love envelops the soul as the flower envelops the bee.
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If you find it impossible to pray, hide behind your good Angel and charge him to pray in your stead.
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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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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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Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.
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Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.
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A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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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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Our body is a vessel of corruption; it is meant for death and for the worms, nothing more! And yet we devote ourselves to satisfying it, rather than to enriching our soul, which is so great that we can conceive nothing greater – no, nothing, nothing!
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