A WORD OF ADVICE FROM THE CURÉ OF ARS FOR THE END OF THE YEAR

 “Many Christians work only to satisfy this corpse [he always called the body a ‘corpse’] that will soon rot in the earth; and yet they do not think of their poor soul, which must be eternally happy or unhappy. They lack spirit and common sense: this is terrifying! You see, my children, we must remember that we have a soul to save and an eternity that awaits us. The world, riches, pleasures, and honors will pass away, but heaven and hell will never pass away. Let us be careful!” 

 Saint Curé of Ars

Saint John Mary Vianney dixit

 

POOR MUTE SHEPHERDS, THEY WILL BE JUDGED SEVERELY BY GOD

 

Saint Curé of Ars dixit

 

PEACE OF SOUL

"...If a person has true virtue, nothing whatever can change him; he is like a rock in the midst of a tempestuous sea. If anyone scorns you, or calumniates you, if someone mocks at you or calls you a hypocrite or a sanctimonious fraud, none of this will have the least effect upon your peace of soul. You will love him just as much as you loved him when he was saying good things about you. You will not fail to do him a good turn and to help him, even if he speaks badly of your assistance. You will say your prayers, go to Confession, to Holy Communion, you will go to Mass, all according to your general custom."

Saint John Mary Vianney

THE GREATEST ACT OF CHARITY

And he did not preach this truth to the air, because thousands of souls were saved thanks to his ministry.

How many souls have been saved or will be saved by your apostolic work? How big is your charity?

HOW WE PROVE OUR LOVE FOR GOD

 

IT IS NOT GOD WHO CASTS US INTO HELL; WE CAST OURSELVES INTO IT BY OUR SINS

For a blasphemy, for a bad thought, for a bottle of wine, for two minutes of pleasure!... For two minutes of pleasure to lose God, one's soul, Heaven… forever! My children, if you saw a man prepare a great pile of wood, heaping up fagots one upon another, and when you asked him what he was doing, he were to answer you, "I am preparing the fire that is to burn me, " what would you think? And if you saw this same man set fire to the pile, and when it was lighted throw himself upon it, what would you say? This is what we do when we commit sin. It is not God who casts us into Hell; we cast ourselves into it by our sins. The lost souls will say, "I have lost God, my soul, and Heaven; it is through my fault, through my fault, through my most grievous fault!" Pray, make your spiritual meditation, frequent the Sacraments daily, have good friends, flee from occasion of sin, read spiritual books... Lead a holy life in the eyes of God.

From the homilies of Saint John Mary Vianney

AN EXCELLENT ADVICE FROM SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY, VERY SUITABLE FOR THE END OF THE YEAR

“Most Christians do nothing but work to satisfy this corpse [he always called the body “corpse”] that will soon fall under the ground, with no regard for the poor soul, who is destined to be happy or unhappy for eternity. Their lack of spirit and good sense makes the skin leap. See, my children, we must reflect that we have a soul to save, and an eternity that awaits us. The world, its riches, pleasures, and honours will pass away, Heaven and Hell will never pass. Let us take care, then.”

Saint John Mary Vianney

THE TEMPTATION by Saint John Mary Vianney

"It is most unfortunate for ourselves if we do not know that we are tempted in almost all our actions, at one time by pride, by vanity, by the good opinion which we think people should have of us, at another by jealousy, by hatred and by revenge. At other times, the Devil comes to us with the foulest and most impure images. You see that even in our prayers he distracts us and turns our minds this way and that. If we wish to hunt these temptations away, we must, as St. Anthony tells us, make use of the same weapons. When we are tempted by pride, we must immediately humble and abase ourselves before God. If we are tempted against the holy virtue of purity, we must try to mortify our bodies and all our senses and to be ever more vigilant of ourselves. If our temptation consists in a distaste for prayers, we must say even more prayers, with greater attention, and the more the Devil prompts us to give them up, the more we must increase their number. The temptations we must fear most are those of which we are not conscious."

Saint John Mary Vianney

BAD CHRISTIANS

"Nor will we say anything about those Christians who are such only in name; who practice their duty as Christians in such a miserable way, that that we could die of compassion for them. You see them praying with annoyance, dissipated, without respect. You see them in the church without devotion; the Holy Mass always begins too early for them and ends too late; the priest has not yet come down from the altar, and they are already outside the church. Of the frequency of the sacraments, let us not speak; if they ever approach to receive them, their air of indifference proclaims that they absolutely do not know what they are doing. Everything that concerns the service of God they practice with a dreadful tedium. Good God! Hoy many souls lost for eternity! How little the number of those who enter the Kingdom of Heaven, when so few do what they should to deserve it!" 

 Book "Sermons of Saint John Maria Vianney, the Curé of Ars". 

WHERE IS YOUR TREASURE?

"A Christian’s treasure is not on earth, it is in heaven. Well then, our thoughts should turn to where our treasure is. Man has a noble task: that of prayer and love. To pray and to love, that is the happiness of man on earth. Prayer is a foretaste of heaven, an overflowing of heaven. It never leaves us without sweetness; it is like honey, it descends into the soul and sweetens everything. In a prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow under the rays of the sun." 

 Saint John Mary Vianney 

THE GREATEST ACT OF CHARITY

 

SAINT JOHN MARY VIANNEY DIXIT:

 

WHERE DOES LUST LEAD US?

 

YOUR AUDIENCE

 

HUMAN RESPECT

Those Who Refuse to Come Out of the Manure Pile, Will Probably Die in it

"To sin is terrible, but much more terrible, is to reject the graces that God sends us to repent and give us his forgiveness."

Saint John Mary Vianney

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The Value of the Holy Sacrifice of the Mass

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