Friday, July 5 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

“Learn what this means: I want mercy and not sacrifice … I did not come to call the righteous, but sinners. “(Mt 9:13) Be merciful, incline your heart to all miseries, those of the body, and even more those of the soul, because the diseases of the soul are infinitely more serious than all the evils of the body, threatening the life and the happiness of a member of Christ not for a few years, but for eternity … Do not endeavor to treat the fat sheep, clean and docile, abandoning the black sheep to their unfortunate fate, but love all men for God their father and their savior gave his care especially to the sick, to sinners, since they need it much more. Jesus gives us his whole body to love; All its members deserve an equal love on our part, as being all: some are healthy, other patients: if all must also be loved, the sick members are demanding all our care, a thousand times more than the others: before annointing the others with perfumes, be careful of those who are injured, bruised, sick, that is to say all those who have needs in their body or in their soul, especially the latter, and above all, especially sinners … We can do good to all men without exception, by our prayers, our penance, our own sanctification.

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