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John Vianney Biography

Jean-Baptiste-Marie Vianney, T.O.S.F. (8 May 1786 – 4 August 1859), commonly known in English as St. John Vianney, was a French parish priest who is venerated in the Catholic Church as a saint and as the patron saint of parish priests. He is often referred to as the "Curé d'Ars" (i.e., Parish Priest of Ars), internationally known for his priestly and pastoral work in his parish in Ars, France, because of the radical spiritual transformation of the community and its surroundings. Catholics attribute this to his saintly life, mortification, his persevering ministry in the sacrament of confession, and his ardent devotion to the Blessed Virgin Mary. His feast day is 4 August.

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There were two saints in the desert, who had sewed thorns into all their clothes; and we seek for nothing but comfort!

Attachment, Clothes, Nothing, Saints, Two

If only we could see the joy of our guardian angel when he sees us fighting our temptations!

Angel, Fighting, Guardian, Joy, See

There is nothing so great as the Eucharist. If God had something more precious, He would have given it to us.

Given, God, Holy Eucharist, Holy Mass, Precious, Sacrifice

God commands you to pray, but forbids you to worry.

Command, Commands, God, Praying, Worry

My little children, your hearts, are small, but prayer stretches them and makes them capable of loving God. Through prayer we receive a foretaste of heaven and something of paradise comes down upon us. Prayer never leaves us without sweetness. It is honey that flows into the souls and makes all things sweet. When we pray properly, sorrows disappear like snow before the sun.

Children, Pray, Prayer, Sorrows, Sweet, Things

The Devil writes down our sins - our Guardian Angel all our merits. Labor that the Guardian Angel's book may be full, and the Devil's empty.

Angel, Book, Full, Guardian, Writes, Writing

Do not try to please everybody. Try to please God, the angels, and the saints - they are your public.

Angel, Angels, Everybody, Public, Saint, Trying

To serve the Queen of Heaven is already to reign there, and to live under her commands is more than to govern.

Govern, Heaven, Queen, Queens, Religious

Humility is like a pair of scales: the lower one side falls, the higher rises the other. Let us humble ourselves like the Blessed Virgin and we shall be exalted.

Blessed, Fall, Humble, Scales, Side, Virgin

All that we do without offering it to God is wasted.

God, Offering, Wasted

If you invoke the Blessed Virgin when you are tempted, she will come at once to your help, and Satan will leave you.

Blessed, Helping, Religious, Satan, Virgin

Others will give away large alms in order to be considered charitable people. Should they not give these out of their own wages, which so often they squander on trifles? If this has happened to you, do not forget that you are obliged to pay back to the person concerned all that you gave to the poor without the knowledge or consent of your employers. Then again, there is the one who has been entrusted by his employer with the supervision of the staff, or of workmen, who gives out wine and all sorts of other things to them if they ask him.

Alms, Forget, Order, People, Staff, Wine

Put a good bunch of grapes under the winepress, and a delicious juice will come out. Under the winepress of the cross, our soul produces a juice that feeds and strengthens us. When we haven't got any crosses, we are dry. If we carry them with resignation, what happiness, what sweetness we feel!

Dry, Feeds, Juice, Soul, Strengthens

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary - a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.

Body, Extraordinary, Joy, Sacrifice, Thrills

The sign of the cross is the most terrible weapon against the devil. Thus the Church wishes not only that we have it continually in front of our minds to recall to us just what our souls are worth and what they cost Jesus Christ, but also that we should make it at every juncture ourselves: when we go to bed, when we awaken during the night, when we get up, when we begin any action, and, above all, when we are tempted.

Christ, Church, Jesus, Minds, Night, Soul

Only after the Last Judgment will Mary get any rest; from now until then, she is much too busy with her children.

Busy, Catholic, Children, Judgment, Mary, Religious

A pure soul is like a fine pearl. As long as it is hidden in the shell, at the bottom of the sea, no one thinks of admiring it. But if you bring it into the sunshine, this pearl will shine and attract all eyes. Thus the pure soul, which is hidden from the eyes of the world, will one day shine before the Angels in the sunshine of eternity.

Angel, Eternity, Eye, Fine, Sunshine, World

When our hands have touched spices, they give fragrance to all they handle. Let us make our prayers pass through the hands of the Blessed Virgin. She will make them fragrant.

Blessed, Give, Hands, Let, Prayer, Touched

The virtue of obedience makes the will supple. . . It inspires the courage with which to fulfill the most difficult tasks.

Inspire, Obedience, Tasks, Virtue

The pure soul is a beautiful rose, and the Three Divine Persons descend from Heaven to inhale its fragrance.

Beautiful, Divine, Fragrance, Heaven, Pure, Rose

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