Saturday, September 20, 2008

Just for Today, September 21

For the profit of one that stands in need, a good work is sometimes freely to be omitted, or rather to be changed for a better. For by doing thus, a good work is not lost, but is changed into a better.
-Bk. I, ch. xv.
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"When the bell rings for us, or someone knocks, we must mortify ourselves and not do another stitch before answering. I have practised this, and can assure you that it is a source of peace to the soul."

After the Saint had given me this advice I followed it faithfully. One day during her last illness she witnessed my prompt obedience: "When you come to die," she said, "you will rejoice to see your merit. You have done a more glorious thing than if you had been clever enough to win the goodwill of the Government towards religious communities, and all France acclaimed you a Judith."
-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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