The Life Of The Venerable Madeleine Barat PDF Download

Excerpt from The Life of the Venerable Madeleine Barat: Foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart of JesusWhen the Church permits us to call one of her'departed children Venerable, and the person so honored is one whom we have ourselves seen and known, or heard of from our friends, or who has at any rate lived in our own days and amidst scenes more or less familiar to our mind, it seems to bring before us even to a greater de gree, than in the case of holy persons in past ages, the fact that sanctity is attainable and should be aimed at not by a few only but by all baptized Christians. The details of such a life have greater influence, generally Speaking, than those of the Saints of the Deserts or the Martyrs of old. The words, Go thou and do likewise, seem less impossible to obey - the first step easer to take, in a road the features of which are not strange, and where all depends on the spirit and strength of will with which it is entered upon and pursued. Little did the Vener able Mother Bamt dream where God was leading her. Every successive stage in that long pilgrimage of more than eighty years took her humility by surprise, and when it was completed she looked back and felt she had done nothing. It was her profound humility which led to her great achievements, and if God gives us grace to build in the least measure on the same foundation, we may hope to accomplish something towards the same end.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.