Thursday, June 19 : Saint Vincent de Paul

“If you ask me what can maintain each of you individually, dear Sisters, I’ll answer that it’s prayer, for it’s the daily manna that , comes down from heaven…. You see, dear Sisters, gardeners take the time twice a day to water the plants in their gardens because without this assistance they would wither away during very hot weather. On the contrary, thanks to this watering, they draw their nourishment from the soil because a certain humor coming from this watering rises from the roots, flows through the stem, and gives life to the branches and leaves and savor to the fruit. “rn the same way, dear Sisters, we are like those poor gardens in which drought causes all the plants to die, unless the gardener’s care and hard work make provision for this. That’s wby you have the holy custom of mental prayer which, like a gentle dew, moistens your soul every morning by the grace it draws from God. When you’re worn out by encounters and difficulties, you have again, in the afternoon, this salutary refreshment, which continuously invigorates all your actions. You’ll see her growing day by day in holiness, just as the gardener sees his plants growing day by day, and in a short time she’ll advance like the beautiful dawn that rises in the morning and goes on increasing until noon. In this way, Sisters, she’ll go on until she has reached the Sun ofJustice, who is the light of the world, and be swallowed up in Him, as the dawn is lost in the sun.

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