Just for Today, April 25

Nature loves idleness and bodily rest: but grace cannot be idle, and willingly embraces labour.

- Bk. III, ch. liv.
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One day I was making my way very leisurely toward the laundry to help with the wash, admiring the flowers as I went. The Saint was going in the same direction, but she was walking quickly and, overtaking me, said: "Is this the way to make haste when one has to earn a living and keep a family?" ­

-Conseils et Souvenirs.
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Adapted from Just For Today(©1943 Burns & Oates)
Nihil Obstat: Reginaldus Phillips, S.T.L.,Censor deputatus
Imprimatur: Edwardus Myers, Vic. Cap.