Thursday, October 8 : Saint Vincent de Paul

Perhaps you will tell me, dear Sisters, that you are so little recollected, even when you are praying, that you can’t spend a quarter of an hour without distractions. Don’t be surprised by this. Sometimes the greatest servants of God experience the same difficulties. I was speaking recently to a good priest, converted many years ago, who spends a long time in prayer to God. He was telling me he often did not have either taste or satisfaction beyond that of saying: “O my God, here I am in your presence to do your most holy will here. It is enough that you see me.” You should do the same. (…) There is a very easy way: take Our Lord’s passion as the subject of your prayers. There is not a single one of you who does not know everything that took place there, either because you have heard it preached or because you have meditated on it. O my Sisters, what an excellent way of making one’s prayer is that of the passion of Our Lord! It is a spring ever young in which you will find something new every day. Saint Francis never had any other subject of prayer than the passion of Our Lord and he recommends all his dear spiritual children to make use of it constantly. And where do you think, daughters, the great Saint Bonaventure drew all his knowledge? In the sacred book of the Cross. You will do well to make a habit of it, I counsel you.

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