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.
JOHN VIANNEYGod commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.
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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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The first thing about the angels that we ought to imitate, is their consciousness of the Presence of God.
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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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Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints – they are your public.
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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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It is always springtime in the heart that loves God.
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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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If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!
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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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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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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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Oh, how I like those little mortifications that are seen by nobody, such as rising a quarter of an hour sooner, rising for a little while in the night to pray!
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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!
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On this path, it is only the first step that counts.
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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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