Prayers & Reflections for February 6

The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime

CHAPTER VI
Encouragement

A woman once went to the Cure of Ars, Saint John Vianney, and said: "My husband has just fallen off a bridge - he has not been to the Sacraments in twenty years. A double death! His soul is lost."

Father Vianney answered: "Madam, there is a little distance between the bridge and the water."

Never give up hope: "Him that cometh to me, I will not cast out" (John 6:37).

[Continued tomorrow]
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From:
The Armor of God
Reflections and Prayers for Wartime
by Rt. Rev. Msgr. Fulton J. Sheen
(C) 1943, P.J. Kenedy & Sons