DAILY WORD of BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE 2023
To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the death of our founder, Blessed James Alberione, we will reflect on his words and use them as our daily guide.
PRAYER INTENTION for FEBRUARY
Religious saint, or nothing. Because this is precisely the purpose of our religious life: to attend to one’s own sanctification. As you go along in the years, more virtues, more righteous intentions, more zeal... So Jesus grew up, so did Mary and the saints (Pr 1, 42).
Religious life is happy, serene, pleasant when charity reigns, because then God lives, is present and blesses and enlightens and comforts (Pr 1, 55).
Lord, I offer you Jesus-Host and myself, so that priests, men and women religious and laity may multiply in the Church who, consecrated to the apostolate with the means of social communication, make the message of salvation resound in the whole world.
What concerns our sanctification, our apostolate, comes from God, from God!(RSp, 31).
Even a sick person, who cannot do great things, who must expect everything from others, can become a great saint. But he will say to himself: “He did nothing”. He did a lot, instead; he did everything: he was united with Jesus, he suffered for love of Jesus and in everything, he conformed to the holy will of God (Pr 1, 17).
God’s designs for the Pious Disciples of the Divine Master were very clear in that year in which, to St Scholastica, your special mission began. The various events were for the greater glory of God and for your greater sanctification (The Apostle Paul, inspirer and model, 248).
What is religious life? It is the will of the Lord above us: the will of God that calls some souls to be closer to the Lord in heaven and, consequently, wants them closer to himself on earth. Religious life is therefore a gift from God, a privilege (Pr 5, 143).
Mary is the mother of Religious. It can be said she is truly worthy of this title, because she began religious life in the world with the vow of purity, with love for poverty, with love for obedience, with love and the sanctification of domestic life, which is common life (Pr 5, 144).
The one called to religious life is the one who best develops his human personality: he develops it in an excellent way, both on the human and on the supernatural side.The supernatural, then, is what also keeps the natural on the right path (Pr 5, 147).
In Antioch, St Paul was humble… And even during the rest of his mission, he was always docile, guided by God, by Jesus Christ, by his voice. We ask for this spirit of obedience, of submission of the mind, will and heart to God (Pr 1, 159).
Thank God who created us and who gave us intelligence, speech, sight. Thank God who created us for holiness (RSp, 36).
Do we pray enough, for how long? And do we pray well enough, with the necessary dispositions: of faith, humility, perseverance? (RSp, 31).
I heard two expressions some time ago. One, he received a little displeasure for an offense, he exclaimed: «You will pay me for it!». Lack of brotherly love. Instead, another, in the same condition, said: «I will pray more for him and I will try to win him with affection and service». Fraternal piety (Pr 2, 130-131).
Among the various forms of religious life, there is ours, there is the Pauline one: which, on the one hand, is the search for great holiness, to which our Father and Protector St Paul invites us; on the other hand, it is the apostolate with the most effective and quickest means (RSp, 32).
The lazy, indifferent soul, full of vanity and with all the seven deadly sins, cannot receive the word of God well and cannot make it bear fruit (RSp, 35).
The soul in grace has peace with its neighbour, because whoever is upright walks his way and in the end, he will receive esteem and a certain admiration. He treats everyone well and is, after all, respected by everyone; he has good relations with each brother, and with each one he tries to show himself generous (Pr 1, 92).
Oh, the Heavenly Father, how much he loves us! Do we think about it? Do we thank him? Oh, the ineffable gift of life! Oh, the ineffable gift of time! (RSp, 37).
What penances to propose for Lent? We could recommend several. Patient charity is the first penance; benign charity; patient charity with everyone, and also with ourselves (RSp, 49).
Life is precious: use it to the fullest! Complaining about this or that means not understanding anything, not understanding that what matters is virtue... God, who is generous, thinks of giving us the opportunities... to practice virtue and acquire Heaven: let us take advantage of it! (RSp, 37).
Life is beautiful spent for God and for souls!... A life of innocence, a life of piety, a life of union with God, a life of apostolate: this is how our life must be (RSp, 37).
If there is sufficient piety, there will be the blessings of the Lord on study, on the apostolate... the Lord will not let the apostles lack the necessary bread; He, who provides for the sparrows, will take care of his beloved children (RSp, 42).
Our vocation is manifested especially by three signs: first, love for truth; second, imitation, love for Jesus; third, love for piety (RSp, 45).
See if we sanctify our mind; if we serve the Lord with all our strength; if He is the master of our heart; if we love Him with all our soul (RSp, 54)
Everything in the Congregation is an activity. Those who look at it from the outside confuse it with an almost industrial or commercial activity. But it is all a fire that is in the heart of our Congregation! And when the fire is well lit... then the activity is explained. Action from prayer (Pr 5, 128).
While being able to ask for every grace, the one that must be most important to us is this: «to do the will of God», that is, to correspond to the vocation, to the graces of the Lord (RSp, 52).
The most urgent grace to ask for is the improvement of piety. Pray and pray well (RSp, 50).
Study the Divine Master. Read the Gospel; try to understand it, understand it well. Intensify the practice of the virtues: of humility, of charity (RSp, 49).
Let us ask for the grace to hear the Mass well, with the due dispositions; to understand it better, in order to get the most out of it (RSp, 50).
Our foundress
Venerable Thecla Merlo
night of 31 December 1900 and felt obliged “to do something for God and for the people of the new century.”
Our founder Blessed James Alberione
Fr James Alberione encountered the Lord in the
Eucharistic adoration on the
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