| Age | Sources and Pages | Code Number | Quotations | Relevant Key Words, Phrases and Their Code Numbers |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 17 | SS 169. |
30-17-1 | …but I haven't said anything to you as yet concerning my good fortune at knowing our holy Mother Genevieve. This certainly was a priceless gift; God, who had given me so many graces, willed that I should live with a saint. Not one that was inimitable, but one who was made holy by the practice of the hidden virtues, the ordinary virtues…. | |
| 24 | LC 46- 47. From May 21 to 26 |
30-24-1 | 1. “Theophane Venard please me much more than St. Louis de Gonzague [St. Aloysius Gonzague], because the life of the latter is extraordinary, and that of Theophane is very ordinary. Besides, he is the one who is talking, whereas for the Saint someone is telling the story and making him speak; so we know practically nothing about his ‘little’ soul! “Theophane Venard loved his family very much, and I, too, love my ‘little’ family very much. I don;t understand the saints who don;t love their family…. My little family of today, oh! I love it very much! I love my little Mother very, very much.” | |
| 24 | LC 159 August 20 |
30-24-2 |
14. “How charming it will be in heaven to know everything that took place
in the Holy Family! When little Jesus began to grow up, perhaps when
He saw the Blessed Virgin fasting, He said to her:63145I would really
like to fast, too.63146 And the Blessed Virgin answered:‘No, little
Jesus, You are still too little, You haven;t the strength.’ Or else
perhaps she didn;t dare hinder Him from doing this. “And good St. Joseph! Oh! how I love him! He wasn;t able to fast because of his work. “I can see him planing, then drying his forehead from time to time. Oh! how I pity him! It seems to me that their life was simple. “The country women came to speak familiarly with the Blessed Virgin. Sometimes they asked her to entrust her little Jesus to them so that He would go and play with their children. And little Jesus looked at the Blessed Virgin to see if He should go and play. At times, the good women went directly to the Child Jesus and said to Him quite simply:‘Come and play with my little boy.’ “What does me a lot of good when I think of the Holy Family is to imagine a life that was very ordinary. It wasn;t everything that they have told us or imagined. For example, that the Child Jesus, after having formed some birds out of clay, breathed upon them and gave them life. Ah! no! little Jesus didn;t perform useless miracles like that, even to please His Mother. Why weren;t they transported into Egypt by a miracle which would have been necessary and so easy for God. In the twinkling of an eye, they could have been brought there. No, everything in their life was done just as in our own. “How many troubles, disappointments! How many times did other make complaints to good St. Joseph! How many timed did they refuse to pay him for his work! Oh! How astonished we would be if we only knew how much they had to suffer! |