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 MARCH
The examination of conscience is a look at the soul to see what is already good, and thank the Lord for it; to see what is bad in us and detest it. The examination of conscience is a look at our soul, in front of God, and before one’s duties (RSp, 57).
Life is not a game; life is serious, it has eternal consequences. Each one works for himself, to build his house in eternity. Some do not build anything; they waste their time (RSp, 57).
O Saint Joseph, model of all virtues, obtain for us your interior spirit. In loving and industrious silence, you have reached a very high degree of holiness. Obtain for us increase of faith, hope and charity; large infusion of the cardinal virtues; abundance of the gifts of the Holy Spirit.
When we read Scripture, we should not do it with a spirit of criticism, but with simplicity. Like the son who reads his father’s letter, without doing the grammatical analysis; how bread is eaten at table, without chemical analysis: this is done in laboratories (RSp, 71).
The veneration that we owe to the Gospel must be of mind, of will, of heart... The veneration of the mind consists especially in faith; the veneration of the will consists especially in obedience... Thirdly, the veneration of the heart is owed to Holy Scripture (RSp, 75).
The Holy Books are like the precious pearl, which all the faithful seek and jealously guard; so that the faithful always conform their thoughts to Sacred Scripture and live according to the will of God (RSp, 75).
Sin, after all, is pride: from pride came the ruin of humanity, and the ruin continues for those men who put themselves off the road out of pride (RSp, 59).
The airplane does not rise by itself towards the sky: it takes some means; so it is for us: it takes effort to rise to heaven (RSp, 62).
Which way do we walk: by the wide or by the narrow way? The narrow way is that of living faith, of religious observance, of generous apostolate: this is the narrow road, which is however always illuminated by the light of God (RSp, 69).
Let us ask for these graces: 1) that we always keep the Bible in due honour; 2) that we can read and meditate on it, according to the spirit of the Church, our Teacher; 3) that we can spread it with our apostolate (RSp, 86).
Many benefits come to us from reading Sacred Scripture; we particularly remember three: the increase of faith, hope and charity (RSp, 86).
The Gospel must be, yes, in the most distinctive place in our premises; but above all, it must be in the place of honour of our heart; it must penetrate our mind, our will, because it is the directive of our whole life (RSp, 76).
How beautiful it is, in the morning, in time, to find all of us united at Jesus’ feet to receive from him the light, the grace necessary to begin the day with him and then go promptly to the apostolate! (RSp, 59).
Whoever carries out the apostolate of the edition must hold Scripture in due honour, be inspired by it and live it. One cannot do better than to imitate God in writing (RSp, 70).
If in a library, there were even a thousand volumes and the Bible was missing, everything would be missing; how everything is lacking in man who does not have God… But when a soul reads the Bible, with devotion, with relish, he will have God with him and will earn a happy eternity (RSp, 79).
If we do not at least read the whole Bible, when we present ourselves before God’s judgment, we will deserve a rebuke: «You did not read my word, you did not want to know my will, you did not read the letter I wrote to men...» (RSp, 84).
In the Bible, there is a reference to all the individual virtues... In the Gospel, there is a reference to all the social virtues... In the Bible, there is everything: the Bible is the way, truth and life for the apostle of the Edition (RSp, 87).
People are looking for peace in many ways, with many means, but this peace is only in God, in Jesus Christ, in his Gospel. Only when we live according to the Gospel and only if the nations stand according to the principles of the Gospel will they find peace (Pr 2, 18).
In the life of those who do not pray, there are failures that succeed one after another: internal and external. But whoever prays receives grace upon grace (RSp, 117).
Here is a lamp that has very pure oil, and slowly, slowly, that oil is consumed for Jesus in the Blessed Sacrament. Here is the perfect religious; here is the religious faithful to the end. And how everything was consumed for the Lord by that heart, how everything was consumed by that being for Jesus Christ (Pr 1, 9).
Blessed are the feet that brought peace and the Gospel. Blessed are the hands that composed the Gospel, who printed it and carried it. Blessed are those who knew how to consume all their strength for God (Pr 1, 8-9).
If we want to understand Providence for ourselves, let us think about this: God created us; he has saved us by sending his he Divine Son to earth; he has given us a special vocation; he keeps us alive; he sends us his Spirit every day (RSp, 93).
St Joseph is the man of silence and recollection. He loved “to do”, not to speak. More than talking to men, he loved talking to God (RSp, 56).
Joseph is always distinguished by his abandonment into the hands of God. Most obedient executor of the divine laws, he took all adverse things from the hands of God, as well as those happy and favourable ones, with the same intent: to please God, to fulfil his most holy will (Pr 1, 132).
Feel the beauty of the Apostolate. Anyone who does not love the Apostolate, who does not understand it, who does not have zeal for souls, would always be discouraged (RSp, 101).
The proud believes himself to have enough capacity, enough intelligence, skill, to need neither the advice of men nor the grace of God (RSp, 116).
If someone works to earn his bread, it is a good thing; but it is a great thing to work to earn and distribute the bread of eternal life, the Bread of Truth, to give it to men, to make known this God, One and Three (RSp, 105).
Infuse me, O Jesus, with a living faith in your paternal goodness; a living faith in the promises you have made to us. I believe that you are infinitely faithful; I believe that whoever asks will be given (RSp, 116).
Mary among us, therefore, Mary with us, Mary for us. A particular flame of love from Mary towards us, a particular communication from Mary that wants to kindle our hearts with that particular flame that was burning in her heart (Pr 1, 151).
God alone gives peace. God is the joy and the source of all our consolations: He is infinite Good. Let us draw close to Him. To God! More and more of God! (RSp, 108).
Know Jesus, imitate Jesus, preach Jesus, live in Jesus. The great work we have to do on earth is this: to take away what is evil in us, to replace it with what is good: the good is Jesus who is everything: «Way, Truth and Life» (Pr 2, 52).
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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