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Offline Maria Dolorosa

The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« on: March 06, 2026, 08:41:36 AM »
St. Bernard says that the devil sits upon the tongue of him who loves to speak against his neighbor, and in the ear of him who likes to listen to such conversation.

— Fr. Lasance, The Catholic Girl’s Guide, Truthfulness
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #1 on: March 07, 2026, 02:13:46 PM »
The Cherubim were placed at the gate of the earthly paradise with their flaming sword, to teach us that no one shall enter into the heavenly paradise who is not pierced through with the sword of love. For this cause, Theotimus, the sweet Jesus who bought us with his blood, is infinitely desirous that we should love him that we may eternally be saved, and desires we may be saved that we may love him eternally, his love tending to our salvation and our salvation to his love.

— St. Francis de Sales, Treatise on the Love of God, 
Translated by the Rev. Henry Benedict Mackey, O.S.B., 1910, p. 83-84
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #2 on: March 08, 2026, 12:36:01 PM »
And since devotion consists in a certain excelling degree of charity, it not only makes us ready, active and diligent in observing all the commandments of God; but it also prompts us to do readily and heartily as many good works as we can, even though they be not in any sort commanded, but only counselled or inspired.
— Chapter I, Description of True Devotion, St. Francis de Sales, Introduction to the Devout Life
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Offline Maria Dolorosa

Re: The Saints on Charity (for God + Neighbour)
« Reply #3 on: Today at 09:24:43 AM »
“Just at this time I heard of the miseries France was suffering, of the havoc the Lutherans were making there, and how this wretched sect was increasing. It grieved me bitterly, and as if I could have done anything, or had been of any consequence, I cried to God and begged Him to cure this terrible evil. I felt that I would have laid down a thousand lives to save one of the many souls perishing there.” — The Way of Perfection, Chapter I (The reason why I founded this convent in such austere observance), St. Teresa of Avila
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