My Prayer Book_LASANCE - the Catholic Kingdom!

50 Don't Wony
these clubs of optimists may be a desideratum, but it is
not a necessity to a practical Catholic; for there can
be no doubt that the best "don't-worry club" in the
world is the Catholic Church, because she directs her
members to lead a pure and holy life, to do their duty,
to rejoice in Ik Lord always, and to preserve their peace
of soul by a simple, childlike confidence in the providence
of Our Father in heaven, in accordance with the
words of St. Paul: "We know that to them that love
God aU things work together unto good" (Rom. viii. 28).
"Happy is the man," says the dear St. Francis of
Assisi, "who does not worry, nor grieve himself, about
anything in this world, but leads a holy life, without
any inordinate attachment, and ahandons himself
cheerfully to the will of God."
St. Francis of Sales, knowing that all the accidents of
life, without exception, happen by the order of Providence,
reposed in Him with the greatest tranquillity,
like a child on the bosom of its mother. This gentle
saint was filled with so great a confidence in God that
in the midst of the greatest disasters nothing could disturb
the peace of his soul. "I can not but 11e persuaded,"
he often said, "that he who believes in an
infinite Providence, which extends even to the lowest
worm, must expect good from all that happens to him."
In the same spirit, St. Vincent de Paul exhorts us:
"Let us place our confidence in God and establish
ourselves in an entire dependence on Him. Then fear
not what men may say or do against us, all will turn to
our advantage. Yes, if all the earth should rise up
against us, nothing will happen but as God pleases,
in whom we have established our hopes."
Says the author of the "Spiritual Combat": "Nothing
is impossible to God, since His power is infinite.
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