Life of St John Vianney.pdf - the Catholic Kingdom!

""106 THE CD1. OF AK8."Look at that man who struggles, who makes a commotion, who wishes to domineer over every one ;whothinks himself to be some great one ;who seems to say tothe sun, * Depart hence ; let me enlighten the world inthy place. Some day that proud man will be reduced, atthe most, to a handful of dust, which will be carried onfrom river to river until it is lost in the sea.See, my children,I often think that we are likethose little clouds of dust which the wind collects uponthe road, which turn round and round for a moment, andthen disappear.See, we have brothers and sisters who are dead.Well, they arc now reduced to that little handful of ashesof which I have been speaking to you."The laboursof the holy cure for these poor wanderinglambs, now folded by his care, were fully repaid bythe fervent and tender piety which prevailed among them.Their eyes would sparkle with joy when their good fatheicame, in some rare moment of leisure,to talk to themibout the good God. Sundays and Thursdays were daysconsecrated to adoration of the Blessed Sacrament, inreparation for the injuries and insults offered to our Lordin that mystery of His love.When the elder girls, who were the most fervent,name oiheard of any scandal or profanationof the holyGod, they would ask permission to spend the night inprayer, and relieve each other hour by hour, that thenocturnal adoration might not be interrupted. Beside.-this, they practised mortification of the senses, like goodreligious in the best regulated convent."We were happy in that house," adds Catherine,* because all was done to ediiication."