DAILY WORD of BLESSED JAMES ALBERIONE 2025
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 life is for sanctification through the three vows and common life. It is choosing a trade, a profession: the profession of making oneself a saint (FSP31*, 221).
Jesus was the first friar, the most devoted lover of religious life and he marked its path. But he has always practiced common life, and even before he exercised all its virtues perfectly (FSP31*, 221).
True religious life is always happy and full of hope and promises, promises of God. And then, Paradise is always in sight. And here we can have a certain consolation, a certain joy (APD64, 296).
To overcome ourselves. If we had also won the whole world and had not won ourselves, we would have done nothing. The greatest merit lies in overcoming ourselves, not overcoming others (FSP31*, 213).
There are daughters who only love trinkets, flowers, their whims; others, however, love souls, because they love the Crucifix, they understand his groans and read in those wounds dripping with blood the story of immense divine love. Big and generous hearts, so expansive that they want to save all souls! (FSP31*, 157).
If a person is virtuous it is not known from social virtues, but from his heart, from how he behaves in the family, it is there that the person shows that he is hardworking, humble, charitable, thoughtful, delicate, etc.: these are the family virtues by which people are known (FSP31*, 250).
Take care of one’s soul... Those who never take care of it are always distracted by the things of the world, by the thoughts and worries of the earth... One must also think about material things, but always as a means to reach Paradise, our ultimate goal (FSP31*, 242).
The yoke of the Lord has its burdens. Why does the Lord say this burden is light? Because there are many helps: help of special graces, protection of the Holy Virgin, interior satisfactions and consolations and especially the “treasure in heaven” (Mt 19:21), the hope of reward (Mt 19:21), (VCG 138).
Hope is a supernatural virtue infused by God into our soul, through which we hope for Paradise and the means to achieve it. It is certainty, not a vague probability, as regards heaven as much as for the graces for getting there (Donec formetur Christus in vobis, 71).
Examination of conscience: to be more fruitful it is good to examine the thought first, then the feeling, third the action. External things are easier to discover, whereas thoughts and feelings are more difficult, for example pride, ambition, hard-headedness, vanity, etc. (FSP30*, 74).
The man who prays and prays in difficulties rather than letting himself be discouraged becomes very strong; he is victorious in the first temptation in the morning, in the second which comes in the midday hours, in the third which comes towards the vespers of our life (FSP31*, 287).
Do not dream of big things, take the small opportunities. Those who cultivate their little vineyard, cultivate it well, pull out the weeds, take care of every leaf, every shoot and harvest healthy fruits (FSP31*, 252).
All of life is a test: test of faith, test of hope, test of love. Test of faith, if we believe... Test of hope, when we know how to endure and how to fight. And test, at the same time, of charity, if there is true love of God, if there is true love of neighbour (APD60, 53).
Do we govern the heart, the desires? And are our thoughts holy?... We need to govern the inside. We often care about words and actions, but Jesus looks first of all at the heart (FSP30*, 79).
This is what the apostolate of the press is: it is reminding men of divine truths, of God’s commands, of the obligations they have to honour and serve God (FSP31*, 171).
Wisdom is not the privilege of those who have studied at the university, but consists in knowing oneself and God. Knowing oneself is the highest philosophy, knowing God is theology (FSP32*, 278).
Take advantage of the means of apostolate: you have the machines, the books, the bookshops. Do you take advantage of these very means to do good? A little yes, but keep going, if you have reached six you have to reach nine and ten. You have many tools in your hands, know how to use them! (FSP32*, 296).
Do you say to yourselves, like St. Bernard: “Bernarde, ad quid venisti? Why did you come here?”. Isn’t it to serve God? So why so much self-love, so much pride? Why don’t I make myself a saint? (FSP30*, 79).
One must extract good from evil. There is much good to be gained: first of all there is humility to be gained. From that day in which he denied the Master, St. Peter always kept his head bowed, thinking: I have sinned (FSP31*, 239).
Insistently ask for the sanctification of the mind and heart, because often that is where one does not arrive and that is precisely there where one must arrive (FSP30*,79).
We must give our heart to Jesus and he wants to give us his grace, his light (FSP30*, 80).
[Many times] we know everything except what concerns ourselves. Do you see that you had a distraction, that you did not pay attention to your duty, that you are always distracted? Let us pay attention to ourselves, to our apostolate, to what concerns our soul (FSP31*, 244).
It is necessary to know what to say, what to suggest to the sick person, without becoming burdensome: very short acts of faith, hope, charity and repentance, feelings of trust in God, of abandonment in Him (Prediche alle Suore Pastorelle, I, 41).
We have only hope in heaven: everything, only and always for Paradise; that the thought of Paradise makes us active (Mihi vivere Christus est, 7).
The soul that loves the Madonna also comes to love Jesus, the Host, the Visit. The Holy Virgin cannot be in our heart as the main object, but she wants to put Jesus (FSP30*, 73).
Acquire the humility of the child. Being humble means seeking the glory of God and not ours, the salvation of souls and not that of our own self-love... seeking the glory of God and the peace of men (FSP31*, 164).
If we feel good in church in the presence of Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament in the Visits, then we can enter into the intimacy of Jesus’ thoughts and pray to Jesus to give us his light so that we can see ourselves, ask him for the gift of understanding (AP 1958/1, 174).
How beautiful is the devotion to the private life of Jesus! Your soul should often turn to Jesus the Savior at that age, taking him as an example... in his heroic virtues (FSP31*, 223).
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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