Friday, October 20 : Saint John Eudes

Our beloved Savior assures us in many places of his Holy Scriptures that he is constantly caring and keeping watch over us, that he carries and will himself always carry us in his breast, his heart, his bowels. Nor is he content to say just once or twice that he will carry us in this way, but he asserts and reasserts it as many as five times in the same place. Furthermore, he assures us that even if a mother were to be found who would go so far as to forget the child she had borne in her womb, yet he will never forget us; that he has written us on his hands so as to have us always under his eyes; that whoever touches us, touches the apple of his eye; that we should never be anxious about what we need to live and to clothe ourselves, that he knows well we need these things and takes care of them for us; that he has numbered the hairs on our head and not one of them will perish; that his Father loves us as he loves him and that he loves us as his Father loves him; that he wills we should be where he is, that is to say that we should be at rest with him in the breast and heart of his Father. (Biblical references : Is 46,3-4; 49,15-17; Zec 2,12; Mt 6,31-3; 10,30; Lc 21,18; Jn 17,26; 15,9; 17,24; 1,2)

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