A True Servant Of Mary Cannot Be

It Is Almost Certain That Excess In Eating Is The Cause Of Almost All The Diseases Of The Body, But Its Effects On The Soul Are Even More Disastrous.

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.

The More A Person Loves God, The More Reason He Has To Hope In Him. This Hope Produces In The Saints An Unutterable Peace, Which They Preserve Even In Adversity, Because As They Love God, And Know How Beautiful He Is To Those Who Love Him, They Place All Their Confidence And Find All Their Repose In Him Alone.

The Principal Means Of Acquiring An Ardent Love Of Christ Are Mental Prayer, Communion, Mortification, Retirement.

Certainly Amongst All Devotions, After That Of Receiving The Sacraments, That Of Adoring Jesus In The Blessed Sacrament Holds First Place, Is Most Pleasing To God, And Most Useful To Ourselves. Do Not Then, O Devout Soul, Refuse To Begin This Devotion; And Forsaking The Conversation Of Men, Dwell Each Day, From This Time Forward, For At Least Half Or Quarter Of An Hour, In Some Church, In The Presence Of Jesus Christ Under The Sacramental Species. Taste And See How Sweet Is The Lord.