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

"You"M."""No"M."May"""""M."304 THE CUR* OF ARS."M. le Cure,"said a priest, "when I leave thisplace,I wish to make a retreat at the Novitiate ofFlavigriy."will do well, my friend ; you will do very well.Would that I could go with you !le Cure, suppose our Lord were to bid meremain there, and take the habit of St. Dominic ?No, my friend, no ;this desire does not come fromHim. Stay where you are."Do not you think that our Lord may ask an accountof me of a good desire, which may have corne from Him,and which I shall have stifled ?"!"very decidedly you are where He would;have you to be. You will always have more good to dothere than you will be able to accomplish."le Cur, give me your blessing, that I mayalways know and do the will of God."that blessing, my friend, urge you on andrestrain you"A parish-priest of the diocese of Autun came to himwith a very complicated case, upon which no one whomhe had hitherto consulted had been able to throw anylight.M. Vianney replied in one word ; but that wordthrew so vivid and instantaneous a light upon the mostobscure point of the question, that the priest could nothelp saying to himself, Well !you have certainly someone who counsels you!" adding aloud,le Cur&where did you study theology ?M. Vianney pointed to his prie-Dieu.So great was the estimation in which the holy curb sjudgment was held, that there was scarcely a work ofcharity or a religious congregation, among the many