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Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.

John Vianney

Shall we all be saved? Shall we go to Heaven? Alas, my children, we do not know at all! But I tremble when I see so many souls lost these days. See, they fall into Hell as leaves fall from the trees at the approach of winter.
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Children Fall Heaven Hell Myself Save Tree Tremble Winter
Understand this clearly: if you know how to give, you must know how to pay back. . .
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Pay Understand Yourself
God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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Command God Prayer Worry Yourself
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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Attachment Earth Life Necessary Punishment
Prayer is the inner bath of love into which the soul plunges itself.
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Love Prayer Soul
It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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God Heart Love Time
See, my children, a person who is in a state of sin is always sad. Whatever he does, he is weary and disgusted with every thing; while he who is at peace with God is always happy, always joyous. . . Oh, beautiful life! Oh, beautiful death!
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Beautiful Children Death Happiness Peace Person
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
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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Body Corruption Death Devotion Greatness Satisfaction Soul
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
If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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Angel Fight Ourselves See Temptation
A priest goes to Heaven or a priest goes to Hell with a thousand people behind.
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Heaven People Priest
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
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
On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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Count Path Step
The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.
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Beautiful Fragrance Purity Soul
There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.
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God Greatness Ourselves Precious
The man of impure speech is a person whose lips are but an opening and a supply pipe which hell uses to vomit its impurities upon the earth.
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Earth Hell Impurity Man Person
When the heart is pure and simple it cannot help loving, because it has discovered the source of love which is God.
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God Heart Help Love Purity Simplicity
Upon receiving Holy Communion, the Adorable Blood of Jesus Christ really flows in our veins and His Flesh is really blended with ours.
JOHN VIANNEY

Blood Connection God Holy Ourselves
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 Devil writes down our sins – our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel’s book may be full, and the Devil’s empty.
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Books Devil Empty Sin Writing
Our 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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Angel Faith Friendship Night
All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.
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God Offering Religious Waste
How sweet it is to die if one has lived on the Cross!
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Death Live Religious Sweet
I thought a time would come when people would rout me out of Ars with sticks, when the Bishop would suspend me, and I should end my days in prison. I see, however, that I am not worthy of such a grace.
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Day Myself People Prison Suspend Thinking Time Worth
We ought to run after crosses as the miser runs after money. . . Nothing but crosses will reassure us at the Day of Judgment When that day shall come, we shall be happy in our misfortunes, proud of our humiliations, and rich in our sacrifices!
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Judgement Misery Money Ourselves Rich Run Sacrifice

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