IF beggars do not receive the alms they ask they do not cease asking; they return to ask again. If the master of the house does not show himself any more, they set to work to knock at the door. This is what God wishes us to do: to pray, and to pray again, and never to leave off praying.
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From Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day
Compiled by Rev. C. McNeiry, C.SS.R.
Imprimatur: Joseph Hull, C.SS.R., Prov. Angl. Sup.
Nihil Obstat: Innocentlus Apap, O.P., S.T.M., Censor Deptutatus.
Imprimatur: Edm. Can. Surmont, Vicarius Generalis.
Westmonasterii, Die 9a Junii, 1927.
First published 1927
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