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

"The"""We276 THE CURri OF ABS.with us as a great king who sends his messenger to bringone of his subjects to him, saying, You will accompanythis man whithersoever he goes, and bring him back tome safe and sound. What a blessed thing, my children,to have the Holy Spirit for our companion He ! is a goodGuide, and yet there are those who will not follow Him.Holy Spirit is like a man with a good horse andcarriage, who offers to take youto Paris. You havein. It is nonothing to do but to say, yes, and to gethard matter to say yes. Well, the Holy Spirit wishes totake us to Heaven. We have nothing to do but to sayyes, and to let him take us there. The Holy Ghost islike a gardener, who cultivates our souls. The HolySpirit is our servant.Here is a gun. Well, you load it,but there must besome one to fire it off. So there is material in us wherewith to do good the Holy ;Spirit fires the train, and goodworks are the consequence. The Holy Ghost rests in thesoul of the j ust like the dove in her nest. He hatches gooddesires in a pure soul, as the dove hatches her little ones.The Holy Spirit leads us as a mother leads a child oftwo years old in her hand as one who can see leads ablind man.The Sacraments which our Lord institutedThewould not have saved us without the Holy Spirit.death even of our Lord would have been useless to uswithout Him. And therefore our Lord said to HisApostles, It isexpedient for you that I go away ; forif I go not away, the Paraclete will not come to you.The descent of the Holy Ghost was needed to render thatharvest of graces fruitful. As with a grain of wheat :you cast it into the earth, but it needs the sun and rainto make it spring up and bringshould say every morning:Myforth the ear.God, send me