Thoughts from St Alphonsus for Every Day-January 8

WE must practise patience in sickness. This is the touchstone by which the spirit of a Christian is found to be of gold or copper. Some are cheerful, patient, and devout as long as they enjoy health, but when visited with sickness they commit a thousand defects: they appear insonsolable; they are impatient to all; they complain of every pain. Behold the gold is found to be copper!
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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