Don't let your life be barren. Be useful. Make yourself felt. Shine forth with the torch of your faith and your love.
The Way #1
Josemaria Escriva
Though it is perfectly natural to experience sadness over loss or injury, the virtue of patience enables us to bear suffering without being broken by sorrow or led to forsake the way of virtue.
"Wouldn’t it be wonderful if we could call everyone in our workaday world friends!"
If with the help of grace we reject the ‘tongue-tied’ devil, we will find that one of the immediate fruits of sincerity is joy and peace in our souls.
We need patience to endure the sorrow that besets us so that we do not betray the good we have.
"We have to win Heaven with our ordinary work. "
"Look at the birds of the air; they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them."
‘At your word, Lord, I will begin again.’
The virtue of poverty consists in living with our heart in God, and therefore detached from material things.