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Show Short Sermons. Go to Our Lady, whose love is as the sea; pray to her to help you to overcome over-come your faults, to obtain for you grace never to commit a deliberate fault, never to offend God. She will not only make you very good, but very happy. -?- O ambition! torment of the ambitious." ambi-tious." How is it that thou, that tor-mentest tor-mentest the world, art also able to please the world? St. Bernard. The heart will not be subject to so many changes, if it roots out the first cause of its frivolity. St. Gregory the Great, O. S. B. The Blessed Sacrament is not one thing out of many; but it is all things, and all in one, and all better than they are in themselves, and all ours and for us and it is Jesus. Father Faber. No one ever despises his own work. An author loves his book, an artist his picture. God is our Author, our Artist, and he cannot bear to see anything done to spoil us. If we realized how sensitive he is about us, how great would be our confidence in him! Like children, we should place our hand in his, and walk forward where he leads. Father Dignan, S. J. There is sometimes a greater charity in seeming not to see our neighbor's trouble than in trying to relieve it. "Let me alone!" is the prayer of many a tortured heart when the curious, the officious and the tactless force the door of its place of desolation; albeit, they bring wine and oil. Katherlne E. Conway. Con-way. I distrust both the intellect and the morality of those people to .whom disorder dis-order is of no consequence who can live at ease in an Augean stable. What surrounds us reflects more or less that v hich Is within us. The mind is like one of those dark lanterns.' which in spite of everything, still throw some light around. If our tastes did not reveal re-veal our character, they would be no longer tastes, but instincts. Emiie Souvestre. Let us serve God in the. sunshine while he makes the sun shine. We shall then serve him all the better in the dark when, he sends the darkness. It is sure to come. Only let our Jight be God's light and our darkness God's darkness, and we shall be safe at home when the great nightfall comes. , You can live without many things and still be comfortable, but if you try to live without the approval of your conscience, despair will creep over you as the shadows of evening creep over the earth at sundown. Religion teaches us to keep our faces toward heaven, as a mariner watches the pole star, and to steer by what we see. .To be true, just, kindly, Is to bring heaven so near that when you die you have but a step to go, and that step will take you within with-in reach of welcome that will make you glad that you have sacrificed all else but kept your faith in the true and the right intact. Which of us can sit down at the close of a day and say, "Today I have done all that was in my power to do for humanity and righteousness?" Ah, no! we look for large things and forget that which is close at hand. To tak life "as God gives it, not as we want it." and then make the best of it, is the hard lesson that life puts before the human, soul to learn. The worst of having inflicted a wrong upon the innocent is that you can never by any means retrieve it. You can repent, re-pent, and it is probable that your very repentance ensures your forgiveness at a higher tribunal than that of earth's judgment, but the results of wrong cannot be wiped out or done away with In this life: they continue to exist, and, alas! often multiply. Even, the harsh and unjust word cannot be recalled, and however much we may regret having hav-ing uttered it, somehow, it is never forgotten. |