July 23, 2014 With Blessed Father Alberione and With Father T0m

Wednesday, July 23
OF THE DAY
ST BRIDGET OF SWEDEN, RELIGIOUS
Jer 1: 1, 4-10
Ps 71: 1-6, 15-17
Mt 13: 1-9

There is study, there is the apostolate, there is the human part, but the first wheel of the cart is always piety. Piety is the foundation because religious life is by nature supernatural. Without piety the religious life collapses (FSP spiegazione delle Costituzioni 209.210)
 
From Father Tom: "Without piety the religious life collapses."  And with piety, the practice of prayer and a prayerful attitude, secular life is a "a thing full of sound and fury, signifying nothing." The problem is to remember this when the sound and fury (= human success) are at their loudest. Won't happen to you or me, but has happened for past Paulines.

Please Pray for Our Deceased: Fr Silvio Restelli SSP (1945)--Sr. M. Grazia Filippi FSP (1996)--Giovanni Iorio HFI (2002)--Sr. Stefanina Cillario FSP (2006)--Fr. Domenico Molino SSP (2007)--Sr. Elizabeth Agius FSP (2011)--Chas Drouhard (1965)