Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-December 19

AT the sight of the Empress Isabella, who had died in the midst of worldly grandeur and in the flower of her youth, St Francis Borgia resolved to give himself entirely to God. "Thus then," he said, "end the grandeur and crowns of this world; henceforth I will serve a master who can never die."
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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