The Most Humiliating Mistakes

'God allows His greatest servants to make the most humiliating mistakes. 

This humbles them in their own eyes and in the eyes of their fellow men. 

It prevents them from seeing and taking pride in the graces God bestows on them.'

St. Louis de Montfort

Painting: Théodule-Augustin Ribot, Still Life with Pumpkin, Plums, Cherries, Figs and Jug

Turn Everything to Profit

"Take advantage of little sufferings even more than of great ones.  God considers not so much what we suffer as how we suffer....

Do what a shopkeeper does in regard to his business; turn everything to profit.  Even though it be only an insect sting or a pin prick, a little eccentricity of your neighbor or some unintentional slight, the loss of some money, some little anxiety, a little bodily weariness, or a slight pain in your limbs.  Turn everything to profit, as the grocer does in his shop, and you will soon become rich before God...

At the least annoyance say, 'thank you, Lord; Your will be done."
                            - St. Louis de Montfort





(Guido Marulli painting, placed by artist in public domain)