Sunday, August 12, 2007

Thoughts and Counsels - August 12

As we take the bitterest medicine to recover or preserve the health of the body, we should cheerfully endure sufferings, however repugnant to nature, and consider them efficacious remedies which God employs to purify the soul and con­duct it to the perfection to which He called it.­

-St. Vincent de Paul
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From Mary, Help of Christians
Compiled by Fr. Bonaventure Hammer, OFM (© 1909, Benziger Brothers)

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