Sunday in the Year for Priests

If you desire the worship that you give to God to be pleasing to Him and valuable for the salvation of your soul, put it properly into practice. Begin by preparing for holy Mass as soon as you awake, uniting yourself to all the Masses which are being said at that moment...

When you come out from your home, think about what you are going to do and what you are going to ask of God. Begin by clearing your mind of earthly matters so that you will be thinking of God only. Avoid all sorts of unnecessary conversations which serve no other purpose than to make you hear Mass badly. When you enter the church, recall to yourself what the holy patriarch jacob said: How awesome is this place! How holy it is! It is truly the house of  God and the gateway to heaven!

From the Sermons of the Cure of Ars, Translated by Una Morrissy

Please pray for the repose of the soul of the Rev. James Schleicher, a priest of the diocese of Cleveland who passed away recently.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie

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St. Peter's Shadow

One of my favorite scripture passages is taken from Acts 5:15:

The people carried the sick into the streets and laid them on cots and mattresses, so that when Peter passed by at least his shadow might fall on one or another of them.

Tomorrow we will celebrate the feast day of Our Lady of Lourdes-TheWorld Day of Prayer for the Sick.  In Lourdes, the sick are treated with great respect.  They are given "first-place" in all the celebrations. Many times throughout the day in Lourdes and especially during the afternoon Eucharistic procession the sick are wheeled out into the esplanade area or the sanctuary of the Grotto. Many people are on stretchers.  When the blessing of the sick takes place, the priest makes his way through the aisles formed by sick pilgrims, blessing them with our Eucharistic Lord in the monstrance he carries. The hopeful pilgrims are waiting for the rays of His love and mercy and compassion to fall upon them.

Scripture tells us that St. Peter's shadow was powerful.  So powerful indeed, that not only were the sick cured, but those with unclean spirits were delivered as well.  So, we can imagine what a sight it must have been to see those that had been brought in on mattresses and cots standing up totally cured and praising God! 

Why was Peter's shadow so powerful? A shadow is produced by light! Christ is the light that reflected off of St. Peter.

St. Peter's shadow is still passing over us today in the Catholic Church through the holy priesthood of Jesus Christ who administer to us the Sacraments Jesus instituted.

In this "Year of the Priest" let us recall the power and mercy of St. Peter's shadow when we see any priest (usually dressed in black) pass by us, offer the Sacraments and show us the love and mercy of Christ.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

One Sunday evening, Father Monnin relates, several young girls--and "not the most fervent ones"--had remained in the church after Vespers. The Cure of Ars was in the choir as usual. He glanced out at them and said to himself:
"This time I have them. Here is my Confraternity of the Rosary already full-blown!"
He came up to the girls.  "My children," he said to them, "we shall recite the rosary together to ask the Blessed virgin to obtain for you the grace of doing well what you are going to do."
He started the prayers, and the little band made the responses. It was as simple as that. Several of them were converted that evening...
From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre
photo: Fr. James Flood saying Mass at St. Edward Nursing Home in Akron, Ohio

The blog of Fr. Valencheck,

pastor of St. Sebastian Church

Akron, Ohio

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

...He demanded the frequent reception of the sacraments. "Go to Communion, my Brothers, go to Jesus! Go and live by Him, so that you may live for Him!--Do not say you have too much to do--Did not our divine Savior say: "Come to me, all you who labor and are burdened, and I will give you rest? Could you resist this invitation?--Do not say you are not worthy of it--It is true, you are not worthy of it, but you need it.

He also said: "The soul can only be nourished with God! Only God can suffice it! Only God can fill it! Only God can satisfy its life! It has an absolute need of its God! In every home there is a place where the family provisions are stored. The Church is the home of souls. It is our own home, we who are Christians. Well! In this home there is a pantry. Do you see the tabernacle? If one were to ask the souls of Christians: What is that? your souls would answer: It is the pantry."

From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michele de Saint Pierre



Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, ocds
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

And whether he was talking, hearing confessions, or preaching, he would choke up with tears. Father Vianney had the gift of tears. And above all, he put so much ardor, so much power of conviction, so much hopelessness into his exhortations, that they made an extraordinary impression on his hearers even at that early period of his life. It seemed that when he spoke of the love of God, when he called to mind the offenses against His holy name, he poured out all his energies in a torrent. When he stopped talking and entreating his brothers, it was as if he were breathing his last.
From the Remarkable Cure of Ars, by Michel de Saint Pierre


“A Christian should always be ready for combat. It is in combat, and in acceptance of the sorrows he sends us, that we prove to God our love for him.”     St. John Vianney

The Litany of St. John Vianney

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

Click here to view U.S. Bishops daily video meditation

The Precepts of the Catholic Church

1.  You shall attend Mass on Sundays and on holy days of obligation and rest from servile labor.

2.  You shall confess your sins at least once a year.

3.  You shall receive the sacrament of the Eucharist at least during the Easter season.

4.  You shall observe the days of fasting and abstinence established by the Church.

5.  You shall help to provide for the needs of the Church.
From the Catechism of the Catholic Church #2042-43

(The traditional precepts included two more.)

1.  Study Catholic teaching.

2.  Observe the marriage laws of the church and provide religious training for one's children.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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At Mass on the first Sunday after Father Vianney's arrival, practically the entire parish came to church. A few persons had already caught a glimpse of the new pastor, but that morning everybody examined him with curiosity.

The first thing they noticed about him was that he was not very tall, that he wore peasant shoes, and that his cassock was of coarse cloth. Then they saw him at the altar. There his awkward gestures were transformed into a sort of unexpected majesty, and already a few of the parishioners sensed that here was a man of unprecedented fervor and zeal...People began to say: "Have you noticed our new pastor? How fervently he prays! How devout he is! He is not an ordinary man. There is something extraordinary about him..."

From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michele de Saint Pierre

How beautiful it is, how great it is to know, love and serve God! That is all we have to do in this world. Beyond that, eveything we do is just a waste of time.
St. John Vianney

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

His church was neither beautiful nor rich. The frame structure above it could not really be called a steeple. Inside, the main altar was of painted wood, adorned with four wooden candlesticks that did it no honor. A modest statue of the Blessed  Virgin stood to the right of the choir. Now while Father Vianney loved poverty, he did not admit its presence in a church. Nothing was too beautiful or too sumptuous for what he would later call "God's household."
From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michele de St. Pierre
(Photo by Rosemarie of Spirit Singing-Taken at St. Martin of Tours-Valley City, Ohio)

Meaning of the Ceremonies at Mass
From an old prayer card that reads: Imprimatur, New York, July 21, 1913, John M. Farley, Archbishop of N.Y.

1.    Priest--Goes to the altar
       Christ--Goes to Mount Olive

2.   Priest-Commences Mass
      Christ-Begins to pray.

3.   Priest--Says the Confiteor.
      Christ--Falls down in agony.

4.   Priest--Kisses the altar.
      Christ--Is betrayed by Judas with a kiss.

5.   Priest--Goes to the Epistle side.
      Christ--Is bound and taken to Annas.

6.  Priest--Goes to the altar and says the Kyrie eleison.
     Christ--Is brought to Caiphas and there denied three times by Peter.

7.  Priest--Says  Dominus vobiscum.
     Christ--Looks at Peter and converts him.

8.  Priest--Reads the Epistle.
     Christ--Is brought to Pilate.

9.  Priest--Prays at the middle of the altar.
     Christ--Is taken to Herod and mocked.

10. Priest--Reads the Gospel.
      Christ--Taken back to Pilate; again mocked.

11.  Priest--Uncovers the chalice.
       Christ--Is stripped of His garments.

12. Priest--Offers bread and wine.
      Christ--is scourged at the pillar.

13. Priest--Covers the chalice.
      Christ--Is crowned with thorns.

14. Priest--Washes his hands.
      Christ--Is declared innocent by Pilate.

15. Priest-Says the Orate Fratres.
      Christ--Is shown by Pilate to the people with the words "Ecce Homo."

16. Priest--Prays in low voice.
      Christ--is mocked and spit upon.

17. Priest--Says the Preface and the Sanctus.
      Christ--Is kept instead of Barnabs and condemned to death.

18. Priest--Makes the Memento for the living.
      Christ--Carries the Cross to Mount Calvary.

19. Priest--Continues to pray in a low voice.
      Christ--Meets his mother and other pious women.

20. Priest--Blesses the bread and wine with the sign of the cross.
      Christ--Is nailed to the cross.

21. Priest--Elevates the Sacred Host.
      Christ--Is raised on the cross.

22. Priest--Elevates the chalice.
      Christ--Sheds His blood from the five wounds.

23. Priest--Prays in a low voice.
      Christ--Sees His afflicted mother at the cross.

24. Priest--Says aloud: Nobis quoque peccatoribus.
      Christ--Prays on the cross for all men.

25. Priest--Says aloud the Our Father.
      Christ--Says the seven words of the cross.

26. Priest--Breaks and separates the Host.
      Christ--Gives up His spirit and dies.

27. Priest--Lets a small part of the Sacred Host fall into
      the chalice.
      Christ--Descends into Limbo.

28. Priest--Says the Agnus Dei
      Christ--Is acknowledged on the cross to be the Son of God by bystanders.

29. Priest--Gives Holy Communion.
      Christ--Is laid in the sepulchre.

30. Priest--Cleanses the chalice.
      Christ--Is anointed by pious women.

31. Priest--Prepares the chalice for use again.
      Christ--Arises from the dead.

32. Priest-Says the Dominus vobiscum.
      Christ--Appears to His mother and disciples.

33. Priest--Says the last prayer.
      Christ--Teaches for forty days.

34. Priest--Says the last Dominus vobiscum.
      Christ--Takes leave of His disciples and ascends into Heaven.

35. Priest--Gives the blessing.
      Christ-Sends down the Holy Ghost.

36. Priest--Says Ite, Missa est, and reads the last Gospel.
      Christ--Sends the Apostles to preach the Gospel.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

The first concern of the young priest, as soon as he was alone, was to go and visit his church. There he knelt down and made one of those fervent imperative prayers to which he had the secret, imploring, crying out for God's mercy. His first thought on seeing his village was: "How small it is!" And then, illumined with one of those presentiments that would light his way through life, he added: "This parish will be too small to contain all those who will some day come to it!"
(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michele de Saint Pierre)

It has been written that the Cure of Ars spent up to 17 hours a day hearing confessions. Recently, I read a story of a priest assigned to a new parish. He related that he spent his first Saturday there in the confessional for 45 minutes waiting for penitents to arrive. During that time he heard only two confessions.

I'm sure most of us witness Sunday after Sunday, people flocking to Communion, but hardly any crowds flocking to the Sacrament of Penance.  While we cannot judge people, we can safely say that our society is suffering from a lack of the sense of sin.

The Secular Carmelite has a great opportunity for witnessing to the world our charism of contemplative prayer through our love for the Sacrament of Penance.  In fact, our Secular Rule states:

"The Secular Carmelite will, in addition, have a great esteem for the Sacrament of Penance, or Reconciliation..."

Why do we need to have a great esteem for the Sacrament of Penance?  The Secular Carmelite seeks the face of God in prayer-this is the heart of our calling-to pray without ceasing-to ponder the law of the Lord in our heart. We are striving for purity of heart, therefore, we are working with God's grace to overcome our faults and imperfections.  We need the grace of the Sacrament of Penance to help us gain self-knowledge to see ourselves as we really are, painful though this may be.

We need the Sacrament of Penance to help us live more perfectly our promises of chastity, poverty, and obedience.  We can examine our conscience as to how we are being faithful or unfaithful to our spiritual marriage to the Order of Carmel.

The Cure of Ars, like many other saints, experienced a deep sense of sin that caused him to weep over his sins and failings.  The Cure of Ars lived a life of Beatitude-offering forgiveness and mercy to the sinner.  We can ask ourself this question: When was the last time I wept over my sins?  Have I truly mourned over my sins before the Lord?  

Let us ask the Holy Spirit to give us a deep sense of sin and compunction of heart, that we will truly be among the blessed-"Blessed are those who mourn, for they shall be comforted."

Let us pray for each other.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, ocds

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Happy Feast Day to all Carmelites!

Although it falls on a Sunday this year, the Carmelite Order

remembers Bl. Elizabeth of the Trinity.

O my God, Trinity Whom I adore, help me to forget myself entirely that I maybe established in You as still and as peaceful as if my soul were already in eternity. May nothing trouble my peace or make me leave You, O my Unchanging One, but may each minute carry me further into the depths of Your Mystery.

Give peace to my soul; make it Your heaven, Your beloved dwelling and Your resting place. May I never leave You there alone but be wholly present my faith wholly vigilant, wholly adoring, and wholly surrendered to your creative action.O my beloved Christ, crucified by love, I wish to be a bride for Your Heart;I wish to cover You with glory; I wish to love You even until I die of love!But I feel my weakness, and I ask You to "clothe me with Yourself,"to identify my soul with all the movements of Your Soul, to overwhelm me, to possess me, to substitute Yourself for me that my life may be but a radiance of Your life.

Come into me as Adorer, as Restorer, as Savior, O Eternal Word, Word of my God, I want to spend my life in listening to You, to become wholly teachable that I may learn all from You. Then, through all nights,all voids, all helplessness, I want to gaze on You always and remain in Your great light. O my beloved Star, so fascinate me that I may not withdraw from Your radiance.O Consuming Fire, Spirit of Love, "come upon me,"and create in my soul a kind of incarnation of the Word:that I may be another humanity for Him in which He can renew His whole Mystery.

And you, O Father, bend lovingly over Your poor little creature:"cover her with Your shadow," seeing in her only the "Beloved in whom You are well pleased."O my Three, my All, my Beatitude, infinite Solitude, Immensity in which I lose myself, I surrender myself to You as Your prey. Bury Yourself in me that I may bury myself in You until I depart to contemplate in Your light the abyss of Your greatness.

(Bl. Elizabeth's famous prayer to the Holy Trinity)

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

...he learned that he had been given the spiritual care of a village in the countryside of Dombes. It was a poor, insignificant village of some two hundred thirty inhabitants. Its church was only a chapel. And, it was said, the people of the hamlet were not very devout.

"Go!" So spoke Father Courbon, the vicar general, to Father Vianney. "There isn't very much love of God in that parish. You will put some into it."

On the morning of February 9, 1818, John Mary Baptist Vianney, former curate at Ecully, set out for his new parish and his new village: Ars.

(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

Photo of the incorrupt body of the Cure of Ars at the official website in Ars, France

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

Father Courbon, the first of the vicars-general, took over the direction of the Lyons' religious affairs. It was up to him to decide the fate of Abbe' Vianney. Word came to Fr. Courban that Fr. Balley's disciple would never know much Latin. But the vicar-general was an indulgent man. Taking into account the urgent need for priests in the diocese and what he knew of poor Vianney's efforts, he was content to ask one searching question: "Is Abbe Vianney a pious man?" He was told that the seminarian was a model of piety. "Well, then," said Fr. Courban, "I summon him for ordination! The grace of God will do the rest."

(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de St. Pierre)
Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

Years later, in a moment of immense gratitude, The cure of Ars said, referring to the hardships of his youth: "When I think of the care the good God took of me...I don't know what to do...I recognized it particularly on two occasions. when I studied, I would be overcome with sadness. I did not know what to do any more...I can still see the place where it happened. I was passing by the Bibot house. I heard words spoken to me, as if whispered in my ear: "Come now, don't worry. You will be a priest some day."
(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)
Priest's Diary Blog

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

John Mary Vianney was now seventeen...The future? Already John Mary Vianney had only one ambition: to be a priest. But he was tormented by the clear awareness of his ignorance and by the prospect of having to learn Latin.

He spoke of all these things to his mother.

"If I were a priest," he said, " I would want to win many souls!" Marie Vianney wept for joy at the thought of it. And when Aunt Margaret Humbert was let into the secret, she too approved highly of John Mary's noble goal.

(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

St. John Vianney's Prayer to his guardian angel:

Good evening, my guardian angel. I thank you for keeping watch over me throughout the day. While I sleep, please offer to God every one of my heartbeats.

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

Father Vianney's memories of his childhood provided him not only a gay palette to give color to his fiery and fertile ideas. They also filled him with bitter regret. Love of the soil, of prayer, and of solitude would always continue to haunt him. In the exile of his crushing ministry, in the prison of his little confessional, he would often think of it with tears in his eyes: " If only, now that I am cultivating the souls of others, I had time to think of my own soul, as I did when I farmed my father's acres! How happy I would be!"..."I believe my vocation was to remain a shepherd all my life."

( the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

(photo: The Late Fr. Matthew Herttna, chaplain of St. Dymphna Shrine, Massillon, Ohio)

Visit the Shrine's website:

http://www.natlshrinestdymphna.org/

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

According to Catherine Lassange, one of the primary witnesses to the life of the Cure of Ars, he gave this account of his first confession: "I still remember it! It was at home, right beneath our clock."

But John Mary had to wait until the summer of 1799 to make his First Holy Communion. It had been said that the bloody upheavals and persecutions did not really disturb the mind and soul of this child. But now came the time of the "Second Terror." The calm had not lasted very long. New persecutions began against Catholics...

One had to go into hiding to pray to God. So much so, in fact, that John Mary--then slightly over thirteen years old--received his First Holy Communion in secret, in the shuttered room of a house in Ecully. "I was there," said Margaret Vianney. "My brother was so happy, that he did not want to leave that room." Fifty years later, the Cure of Ars showed his First Communion rosary to the children in his catechism class.

(From the Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

As a child, he always kept with him the statuette of the Blessed Virgin given him by his mother. Having discovered an ancient willow tree with a hollow trunk, he placed the wooden figurine inside and knelt before it to pray. The willow now took the place of the barricaded church. But in order to decorate the improvised chapel, he had to leave his flock for a moment to the care of Margaret, and set down the woolen sock that little shepherds knitted as they watched their flock.


In the vicinity there were several other shepherd boys. John Mary gathered these boys around him, called them "my children, " gave them sermons, and taught them their catechism. He also organized processions. The children would march behind a homely cross made of two sticks, reciting the rosary and singing hymns.

(The Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michel de Saint Pierre)


"How beautiful it is, how great it is to know, love and serve God! That is all we really have to do in this world. Beyond that, everyhing we do is just a waste of time."
St. John Vianney


Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

...His mind, oriented toward God and his calling, was in no sense adapted to purely intellectual speculations. And besides, he knew only the barest rudiments of French grammar. How would he ever be initiated into the mysteries of Latin grammar?

Father Balley's other students, who were much younger than Vianney, made fun of him. One day one of them, Matthias Loras, who was helping his good friend to translate a text, finally lost patience at his stupidity and slapped him. Vianney was the older and by far the stronger of the two. And yet, controlling his strong natural reaction, he knelt down before the offender, before this twelve-year old boy, and humbly asked his forgiveness.

(From The Remarkable Cure of Ars by Michele de Saint Pierre)

"When one has just received communion, of what use are the words of men when it is God who is speaking? We must listen to what the good Lord says to our hearts."

St. John Vianney, pray for us!

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie, OCDS

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Sunday in the Year for Priests

From the life of St. John Marie Vianney

by Michele de Saint Pierre

Young Vianney, as we have said, was intelligent, shrewd, extraordinarily gifted with intuition, inclined to the loftiest spiritual meditation, and endowed with a generous and fiery imagination. He kept his impetuous temperament under control, thanks to his exceptional will power. He had good mental balance. Above all, he possessed vitality beyond compare, which was already at the service of his limitless zeal. He was a veritable volcano of interior energy, which love of God would later cause to erupt, sending its lava of charity far beyond the village of Ars, far beyond the boundaries of France.

John Paul II on the Cure of Ars

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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Sunday in the Year for Priests

From the life of St. John Vianney

Already little John Mary Vianney had the temperament of the priest he would some day become. At once practical and inspired he was both peasant and poet. He felt the peace of the trees and the languor of the day in the very fibers of his being. He loved the meadows, the ripening crops, the good smell of earth and sun. And how he delighted in the lightning flashes that crossed the horizon from end to end. Forty years later, fifty years later, even until he died, he would still speak of it all in a voice filled with nostalgia.

The fact is that John Mary Vianney was first of all a contemplative. He had the sense of prayer. He prayed just as easily as he breathed, with the naturalness, the simplicity that made him seek out solitude. What he preferred above all else was to speak to God without any witnesses, or else listen silently to Him. Dom de Laveyne, who was a great religious, once said: "Silence is the most certain sign of the presence of God in a soul." But little John Mary had to store up his provision of silence, recollection, and solitude right there and then. For when he attained manhood all these things would be denied him.

From the Remarkable Cure of Ars, by Michelle de Saint Pierre

Prayer for Priests

O Jesus, our great High Priest, Hear my humble prayers on behalf of your priest, Father [N].Give him a deep faith a bright and firm hope and a burning love which will ever increase in the course of his priestly life.

In his loneliness, comfort him in his sorrows, strengthen him in his frustrations, point out to him that it is through suffering that the soul is purified, and show him that he is needed by the Church, he is needed by souls,he is needed for the work of redemption.

O loving Mother Mary, Mother of Priests, take to your heart your son who is close to you because of his priestly ordination,and because of the power which he has received to carry on the work of Christin a world which needs him so much.

Be his comfort, be his joy, be his strength,
and especially help himto live and to defend the ideals of consecrated celibacy. Amen.

John Joseph, Cardinal Carberry (+1998)Archbishop of St. Louis 1968-1979

Peace be with you!

Rosemarie

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An excerpt from the Life of St. John Vianney

by Michel de Saint Pierre

The official website of St. John Vianney in Ars, France

The incorrupt body of St. John Vianney

Another day, when he was still only four, he disappeared mysteriously from the house. Marie Vianney noticed it, looked for him, called him. All in vain. In a panic, she sought him all over the farm, weeping and despairing. Suddenly fear struck terror to her heart as she remembered a certain water hole, dark and deep, where the child might have drowned. But at last she found John Mary in the stable praying, with his hands on the famous wooden satuette. Perhaps Marie was edified, good Christian that she was. But she did not let him know it. Instead, she chided: "Why did you run away? Why did you cause me so much worry? And why do you hide to say your prayers? You know very well that we all pray together."

John Mary Vianney owed a great deal, and would continue to owe a great deal to this woman who was his mother. Concerning his own filial sentiments, he later on expressed himself in a way that left no room for doubt:

My love of prayer and of the altar? After God, I owe it to my mother." "Virtue passes easily from the hearts of mothers into the hearts of their children!"

Fr. Monnin, a very reliable witness and one of the confidants of the last years of his life, has declared: "We remember hearingh him say on several occasions that a child should not be able to look at his mother without weeping."

Prayer of St. John Vianney:

I love You, O my God,
and my only desire is to love You
until the last breath of my life.
I love You, O my infinitely lovable God,
and I would rather die loving You,
than live without loving You.
I love You, Lord
and the only grace I ask is to love You eternally...
My God, if my tongue cannot say in every moment that I love You,
I want my heart to repeat it to You as often as I draw breath.

Peace be with you!
Rosemarie, OCDS
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