Tuesday, August 19 : Saint Charles de Foucauld

How good you are, my God! If you had first called the rich, the poor would not have dared to approach you, they would have thought they had to stay away because of their poverty, they would have looked at you from afar, leaving the rich surrounding you. (…) How good you are! You have taken the right way to call all your children around you, with no exceptions! And what a balm you have put to the end of tme in the heart of the poor, small, disdained in the world, showing them from your birth that they are your privileged, your favorites, the first called: the always called around you who wanted to be one of their own and be from your cradle and your whole life surrounded by them. God did not attach salvation to knowledge, intelligence, wealth, long experience, to rare gifts and that not all have received, no. He attached it to what enters the hands of all, absolutely all, young and old, humans of all ages and all class, of all intelligence and all fortune. He attached it to what everyone can give him, for a little good will: a little good will, that is all that it takes to win this heaven that Jesus attaches to humility, to take the last place, to obey, that he attaches elsewhere to poverty, to the purity of heart, to the love of justice, to the spirit of peace. Hopefully, since by the mercy of God salvation is so close to us, in our hands, and that we have enough by a little good will to obtain it.

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