| Age | Sources and Pages | Code Number | Quotations | Relevant Key Words, Phrases and Their Code Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 14 | SS 99 -98. |
13-14-1 |
…He made me a fisher of souls.
I experienced a great desire to work for
the conversion of sinners, a desire I hadn't
felt so intensely before. I felt charity enter into my soul, and the need to forget myself and to please others; since then I've been happy! One Sunday, looking at a picture of Our Lord on the Cross, I was struck by the blood flowing from one of the divine hands. I felt a great pang of sorrow when thinking this blood was falling to the gound without anyone's hastening to gather it up. I was resolved to remain in spirit at the foot of the Cross and to receive the divine dew. I understood I was then to pour it out upon souls. The cry of Jesus on the Cross sounded continually in my heart: “I thirst!” (John 19:28.) These words ignited within me an unknown and very living fire. I wanted to give my Beloved to drink and I felt myself consumed with a thirst for souls. And yet, it was not the souls of priests that attracted me, but those of great sinners; I burned with desire to snatch them from the eternal flames. |
2-14-1 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials), 7-14-1 (Renunciation, Forget Self), 14-14-1 (The Little Way), 17-14-1 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 22-14-1 (Salvation of Souls), 27-14-1 (Sinners, Sins), |
| 14 | GCI 269, May 31(?), 1887, LC 49: from Sr. Marie of the Sacred Heart. |
13-14-2 | …how much reason we have for singing to our good Jesus. Oh! yes, even when our heart is sad. It has so many reasons for being happy, so many! so many! | |
| 14 | GCI 284, Sep. (?), 1887, LC 52: from Sr. Agnes of Jesus. |
13-14-3 | …Don't torment yourself with anything and for no reason. This does not please God, who loves to see the little hearts of His children always joyful. |
39-14-4 (Pauline) |
| 23 | GCII 966, July 12, 1896, LT191: to Celine. |
13-23-1 |
…At the time of the law of fear, before the coming of Our Lord,
the Prophet Isaias already said, speaking in the name of the King
of heaven: “Can a mother forget her
child?…Well! even if a mother
were to forget her child, I myself will never forget you.”
(Isaias 49:15.)
What
a delightful promise! Ah! we who are living in
the law of love,
how can we not profit by the loving advances our Spouse is making
to us… how can we fear Him who allows Himself to be enchained by
a hair fluttering on our neck. Let us understand, then, how to hold Him prisoner, this God who becomes the beggar of our love. When telling us that it is a hair that can effect this prodigy, He is showing us that the smallest actions done out of love are the ones which charm His Heart. Ah! if we had to do great things, how much we would have to be pitied? … How fortunate we are since Jesus allows Himself to be enchained by the smallest things.… It is not little sacrifices you lack, dear Leonie, is not your life made up of them?… I take delight at seeing you before such a treasure and especially when thinking you know how to profit from it, not only for yourself, but for souls …. It is so sweet to help Jesus by our light sacrifices, to help Him save souls that He bought at the price of His Blood and that are awaiting only our help in order not to fall into the abyss…. It seems to me that if our sacrifices are the hairs which captivate Jesus, our joys are also; for this, it suffices not to center in on a selfish happiness but to offer our Spouse the little joys He is sowing on the path of life to charm our souls and raise them to Himself…. |
1-23-1 (Self-love, Nature), 10-23-5 (Littleness), 14-23-3 (The Little Way), 17-23-10 (Love Jesus, The Love of God, Charity), 22-23-3 (Salvation of Souls), 42-23-4 (Works, Actions, Great Actions) |
| 24 | LC 52, May 27. |
13-24-1 | 10. “At the time when my departure for Tonkin was planned, around the month of November, you recall how we began a novena to Theophane Venard in order to have a sign of God's will? At this time I returned to all the community exercises, even Matins. Well! During the novena precisely, I began to cough again, and since then I've gone from bad to worse. He's the one who calling me. Oh! I would love to have his portrait; he's a soul that pleases me. St Louis de Gonzague was serious, even during recreation, but Theophane Venard was always cheerful.” | |
| 24 | LC 74, July 5. |
13-24-2 | 2. “Don't be sad about seeing me sick, little Mother, for you can see how happy God makes me. I'm always cheerful and content.” | |
| 24 | LC 82, Jul. 9. |
13-24-3 |
1. She didn't want any sadness around her, nor at
Uncle's home: “I want them all to have a ‘good time’ at La Musse. I'm having a spiritually good time all day long.” “This‘good time’ can't be very happy,” I said: “I find it very happy.” |
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| 24 | LC 92, Jul. 12. |
13-24-4 |
7. It seemed to me she was down-hearted in spite of her happy
mood, and I said: “It's for our sake that you take on
this happy mood and say these cheerful things, isn't it?” “ I always act without any ‘pretence.’” |
14-24-16 (The Little Way), 20-24-4 (Truth) |
| 24 | LC 146, Aug. 11. |
13-24-5 |
6. She told us all sorts of things about the time of the
influenza epidemic. I said to her: “What fatigue you
underwent! And how nice and amiable you were!
Certainly,
all that cheerfulness was not sincere; you were suffering
too much in both body and soul.” With a smile, she said: “I never ‘pretend,’ I'm not like Jeroboam's wife.” (I King 14) |
20-24-9 (Truth) |
| 24 | LC 184, Sep. 5. |
13-24-6 |
3. Pointing to her glass of
reddened water, with a nice little gestures,she
said cheerfully: “Something to drink, little Mother, if you please. There is ice in it, that's good!” After drinking: “I drank without thirst! I'm a little ‘drinker without thirst.’” I was telling her she suffered less during the silence: “Oh! just the opposite! I suffered very much, very much! But it's to the Blessed Virgin that I complained.” |
2-24-71 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials) |
| 24 | LC 185, Sep. 6. |
13-24-7 |
2. In the afternoon, she cried with joy when someone brought her
a relic of Blessed Thophane Venard. With great tenderness, she offered me a little daisy for my anniversary. She was very demonstrative, all through the afternoon, in her affection for us, and was attractive in all sorts of ways. I said: “I've noticed that whenever you are able, you return to the way you were formerly.” “Ah! That's very true! Yes, whenever I can, I do my very best to be cheerful in order to please you.” |
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| 24 | LC 191, Sep. 17. |
13-24-8 |
1. “
When we are around the sick, we must
be cheerful.” She said this because we were telling her our troubles. “After all, we mustn't lament like those who have no hope.”(1 Thessalonians 4:13.) Then with a mischievous look: “You'll end up by making me regret life.” We said: “It would be hard for us to do that.” “That's true! I said it only to scare you a little.” |
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| 24 | LC 194, Sep. 21. |
13-24-9 | When drying her eyes, a few
eyelashes were detached from her eyelids: “Take these lashes, Sister Genevieve, for we must give as little as possible to the earth.” [a la terre] (She was making a pun here upon the name Pere Alaterre, a workman, and brother of Sister St. Vincent de Paul.) “Poor man, if this gives him any pleasure!” It was in this way that she was always cheerful in spite of her great sufferings of both body and soul. |
2-24-73 (Sufferings, Sacrifices, Crosses, Trials) |