Since His Delights Are To Be With

If, On A Rare Occasion, It Is Necessary To Speak With Some Severity In Order To Make A Grievous Crime Felt, We Should Always, At The Conclusion Of The Rebuke, Add Some Kind Words. We Must Heal Wounds, As The Samaritan Did, With Wine And Oil. But As Oil Floats Above All Other Liquors, So Meekness Should Predominate In All Our Actions.

Saint Teresa, As The Roman Rota Attests, Never Fell Into Any Mortal Sin; But Still Our Lord Showed Her The Place Prepared For Her In Hell; Not Because She Deserved Hell, But Because, Had She Not Risen From The State Of Lukewarmness In Which She Lived, She Would In The End Have Lost The Grace Of God And Been Damned.

Do Not Allow Your Daughters To Be Taught Letters By A Man, Though He Be A St. Paul Or St. Francis Of Assissium. The Saints Are In Heaven.

So Great Is The Compassion Excited In Mary By Our Misery, And Such Is The Love That She Bears Us, That She Prays Constantly, And Relaxes Not Her Efforts In Our Behalf.

Before The Coming Of Jesus Christ, Men Fled Away From God And, Being Attached To The Earth, Refused To Unite Themselves To Their Creator. But The Loving God Has Drawn Them To Himself By The Bonds Of Love, As He Promised By The Prophet Osee [hosea]: "i Will Draw Them With The Cords Of Adam, With The Bonds Of Love" (11:4). These Bonds Are The Benefits, The Lights, The Calls To His Love, The Promises Of Paradise Which He Makes To Us, But Above All, The Gift Which He Has Bestowed Upon Us Of Jesus Christ In The Sacrifice Of The Cross And In The Sacrament Of The Altar.