Forgotten Truths To Set Faith Afire!

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons )  …it is essential to despise all earthly things, looking upon them as refuse, and holding only what is strictly required by one’s needs.   Even these should be curtailed a little so as to endure some inconvenience out of love for poverty…Unfortunately, many desire poverty in name only and provided that they want for nothing.   They profess to be friends of poverty, but are very careful to avoid, as much as possible, hunger, thirst, abjection and contempt, those inseparable companions of poverty.   St. Vincent Ferrer, O.P.

(Image Source: Wikimedia Commons ) A person who has a [spiritual] director by whom he allows himself to be guided, whom he obeys in all his actions, great and small, will more easily and quickly arrive at perfection then he ever could by himself, even were he gifted with an extraordinary degree of intelligence and supplied with books explaining the nature of all virtues and the means of acquiring them.  St. Vincent Ferrer