Just for Today, May 23

There is then no sanctity, if Thou, O Lord, withdraw Thy hand. No chastity is secure without Thy protec­tion. No guard that we can keep upon ourselves will profit us, if Thy ho1y providence watch not over us.

Oh! how humbly and lowly ought I to think of myself: how little ought I to esteem whatever good I may seem to have!

-Bk. III, ch. xiv.
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The lilies of my soul would droop,
And fade, if Jesus went;
The Lily of the Valley, He,
Preserves their spotless purity,
The fragrance of their scent.

-Poems.
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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.