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SUMMARY:Vigils Reading - Office for Vocations
DESCRIPTION:FRATERNAL CHARITY \nFrom the book “My Sister Saint Thérèse” by Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face 5 \n◊◊◊ \nFraternal charity…was one of Thérèse’s favourite themes. She left no stone \nunturned\, therefore\, to impress on her novices the supreme importance of this \nvirtue in community life… In order to encourage me in the practice of virtue\, \nThérèse confided to me one of the sacrifices she was called upon to make during \nher first years at Carmel. \nAs one of the former prioresses could not endure any fragrant odour\, \n<Thérèse>\, in deference to her\, had always been very careful not to have any sweet- \nsmelling flowers…at her cloister-shrine of the Child Jesus. It happened that\, one \nday\, just as she was about to place a lovely rose before the statue of the Holy Child\, \nshe heard the Mother calling her\, and Thérèse knew why… My humble little sister \nconfessed when relating the incident to me\, “I had a strong desire to let this good \nnun go ahead and actually complain before I should tell her that it was only an \nartificial flower. But at that same moment\, Jesus was tugging at my heart for a \nsacrifice of this little selfish satisfaction\, and He won out. Holding up the flower\, I \nexclaimed gaily: ‘See\, Mother\, how well they imitate nature nowadays! Wouldn’t \nyou think that this rose had just been freshly gathered from the garden?’ Oh! If \nyou only knew how happy I was after that act of charity\, and how marvellously it \nstrengthened my character.” \nOne day in the Infirmary during her last illness\, my sister called my attention \nto the soft\, downy linens which the infirmarian\, Sister Stanislaus always had at \nhand for the benefit of her patients. “Souls should be treated with the same tender \ncare\,” the Saint said\, “but why is it that we forget this so frequently\, and allow those \nabout us to go on unnoticed in the endurance of sharp\, interior pain? Shouldn’t \nthe spiritual needs of the soul be attended to with the same charity\, with the same \ndelicate care which we devote to our neighbour’s bodily necessities?… How \ntenderly we should not only love them but also show our love for them.” Whenever \nshe happened to find any sister in a disagreeable mood or at fault in any other way\, \nThérèse would extend herself to be only the more amiable\, obliging and \naffectionate; in this way she endeavoured to restore peace to an agitated heart \nwhich\, she knew\, must be suffering… \nBelieving that I was too self-centered at times\, our dear Saint said to \nme… \n“This tendency to fall back on self makes the soul barren and incapable of the \npractice of virtue… Whenever we find ourselves a prey to such self-introspection\, \nwe should have immediate recourse to external works of charity. <God> often \npermits us to become obnoxious to ourselves precisely that we might get away from \nself. Our only escape\, then\, is to go on a visit to Jesus and Mary by the performance \nof charitable works.” \n… \nThérèse frequently urged us to practise great charity in judging others\, for\, \nas she used to point out to us\, that which seems to be a fault in another is often an \nact of heroism in the sight of God. The unfinished task of a nun who may be over- \ntired or suffering interiorly\, she told us\, often brings more glory to God than a duty \nmeticulously completed by another nun robust of soul and body. In other words\, \nit is effort and not success that counts most with God… \nWhen the tuberculosis had spread to all parts of her body causing \nindescribable suffering\, we were imploring heaven one day in tears to give our dear \nlittle sister some relief when she said to us: “I am asking God that all the prayers \nbeing offered for me may serve rather for the salvation of souls and not for the \nalleviation of my sufferings.” And I can still hear her declare: “No\, I never would \nhave thought it possible to suffer so much… never\, never! I can only explain it by \nmy intense desire to save souls.” \n  \n5 Sister Genevieve of the Holy Face. My Sister Saint Thérèse. New York: P.J. Kenedy & Sons\, 1959. 124\, 129-132\, 137- \n138\, 148-149.11 \n  \n 
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