Thursday, July 31, 2008

Just for Today, August 1

I will go before thee, and will humble the great ones of the earth (Is. xlv, 2), I will open the gates of the prison, and reveal to thee hidden secrets.
-Bk. III, ch. xxiii.
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I showed her a picture of St Joan of Arc in prison, comforted by her voices: "I too am comforted by an interior voice," she said, "the Saints encourage me from Heaven, and tell me that as long as I am in fetters I cannot fulfil my mission, but that after my death will begin the time of my conquests."
-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.

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