Saturday, May 3 : Saint Vincent de Paul

As you know, Sisters, conferences served our Lord for the establishment of his Church. From the day when he brought together his apostles he gave them to them. Then, when his Company became larger and had both apostles and disciples, he sometimes held assemblies with them. And it was during a conference like that that Saint Philip, whose feast day we keep today, said to our Lord: “Lord, you talk to us about your Father but let us see your Father.” And our Lord replied: “Whoever sees me sees my Father; my Father and I are one.” In those conferences the apostles put forward their difficulties and our Lord gave them his answer. He dealt with the promotion of the Church and the means God would use to enable it to flourish in such a way, my dear Sisters, that one could say – and indeed it is true – that Jesus Christ himself instituted conferences and made use of them for the beginnings, the progress and the perfection of his Church. And after his death and glorious ascension he did not enable any other instruction among the faithful through the apostles and priests except in the form of a conference. There was no sermon at all; when the Christians were assembled, the conference began.

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