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St. Vincent Pallotti
 
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My God,
I am the most
Unworthy of all
To think of you,
To speak of you,
To do anything
For you!
 

A witness to the works
Of mercy,
Both material
And spiritual.

     

My God,
Permit me to call the night
That is given to me for rest,
'The night of your infinite mercy.'

 

Trust in God and
God will be
Sufficient for you.

     

Religion must be defended
By its followers by means
Of honest witness, and
The authenticity of their words,
Thus demonstrating
The reasonableness
Of religion.

 

My God,
Permit me to call the light
That daily shines upon me,
'The light of
Your infinite mercy.'

     

I ask you to
Become peaceful,
Because your complaints are
Too frequent and without
Real grounds.

 

In God,
I am always united to you.

     

Your obsessions, your fears are
Like a turbulent stream
Which cannot be curbed…
Because you do not
Want to profit by them.

 

Let us not
Lose sight
Of the memory
Of our sins.

     

Our Lord Jesus Christ
Is truly free!

 

The title "Catholic Apostolate!"
Each and everyone
Must be imbued with a burning desire
To do everything in his or her power to
Promote the greater glory of God.

     

Jesus Christ
Does all things in us.

 

May the love
Of the Holy Spirit
Flow into our hearts.

     

You write to me
Because I tell you the truth.

 

The most important concern
Which whole world can
Have is the saving
Of a single soul.

     

Lord, make my life

 

In the Upper Room
Where the Apostles
Received the Holy Spirit.

     

The Catholic Apostolate
Is common to all classes of people
And consists in doing whatever
Anyone can and should do
For the greater honor of God
And for our own and
Our neighbor's
Eternal salvation.

 

I will try to free myself
From everything that prevents
Me from obtaining
This treasure that God is.

     

I would like
To become a drink
To quench the thirsty

 

How tender is the heart
Of Jesus Christ,
Whose love would not permit Him
To refuse those horrible tortures.

     

If only I could love God
To such an extent
As to give God
An infinite glory.

 

Let us walk trusting Christ,
Like a gazelle or a young
Heart swift on all the world.

     

We do not love
Our neighbor as ourselves
Unless we care
for our neighbor's
eternal salvation
as if it were our own.

 

Whoever,
With increasing fervor,
Unites the contemplative life
With the active,
Will realize the fullness
Of Christ.

     

Consider what it means:
God dwells within you.

 

See to it that nothing turns
You away form God.

     

You are not destined
To be a Trappist or a hermit.
Be holy in the world.
I intend from all eternity
And forever to live
And continue to live
The love of God.

 

Let us pray
That the work
Of the Blessed Trinity
Be realized in us,
Cherished by us
And be increasingly
More valuable to us.

     

Your holiness
Is simply to do
The will of God,
To do it always
And everywhere.

 

Inhale the divine
By just looking to God
Who is everywhere.

     

Wherever I shall be,
I shall picture myself
As among all

 

The love of our lord Jesus Christ
Urges everyone to the work of
The apostolate so that they may
Receive the honorable title
"Apostle".

     

Whoever trusts in God will
 Not be confused.

 

Loveable
In the Eucharist.

     

In order to begin
To love God
Practice
Interior recollection.

 

Before beginning
Any of our daily works,
We should consider
What would be
the thoughts of Jesus
and the affections
of His Divine Heart.

     

Jesus,
Relying on your infinite
Mercy, I wish to receive you
In every moment
--- forever.

 

Does God thirst
For my soul,
And my soul
Not thirst for God?

     

Jesus, our brother
In the Eucharist.
Jesus, our doctor and remedy
In the Eucharist.

 

My God, my mercy…
Arouse and preserve in me
The hunger and thirst
To be more and
More like you.

     

Let us hate that fault
Of having delayed
To love God,
Who is so worthy
Of infinite love.

 

May the most precious
Will of God
Be our food,
Our drink, our rest
And our heaven
On earth.

     

My Jesus,
How unworthy I am
To come to visit you.
Instead of rejecting me,
You call me, wait for me,
Welcome me because
You wish to fill me
With grace.

 

The principal goal of the union
Of the Catholic Apostolate:
To promote in any possible way,
The increase of the spiritual
And temporal means
For the spreading
Of holy faith.

     

Put yourself
Into God's hands…
Everything will go well.

 

I would like
to become medicine
and health for the sick.

     

Jesus, our food and grace
In the Eucharist.
Jesus, our treasure and
Happiness in the Eucharist.
Jesus, infinitely loved and

 

Profit
By the peace of mind
God gives you.

     

My Jesus
You have worked wonders
To draw me to your love.
Do it again and again,
So that I may
Be all your love.

 

My God,
Permit me to call
the air I breathe,
The earth I walk upon,
'the air and earth
of your infinite mercy'.

     

Be convinced
That you have received
The gift of priesthood
Through the mercy of God.

 

When Jesus Christ
Teaches you to ask
For something in prayer,
It is a sign that he wishes
You to have it.

     

Not food and drink,
Not tranquility and riches,
Not respect and honors,
But God.

 

There are few
Who constantly strive
To imitate Jesus Christ

     

The Son desire to feed me in the Eucharist.

 

Courage is but frailly at is best

     

We imitate Jesus Christ,
who is the Apostle
of the Eternal father.

 

Expect everything
Through the intercession of
The Blessed Virgin Mary,
Queen of Apostles.

     

Not the intellect, but God,
Not the will, but God,
Not the heart, but God.

 

We imitate Jesus Christ,
who is the Apostle
of the Eternal father.

     

How I rejoice to hear you say
In your need that
Now you have turned to God.

 

Mary says to us:
Lead a life of a true follower
Of my divine son,
And you will indeed
Be the salt of the earth
And the light
Of the world.

     

If possible,
Combine the activity of Martha
With the contemplation
Of Magdalene.

 

What I tell others to do,
I must first do myself!

     

Any Christian
Devoutly enjoys
The thought of having
To imitate the lord
Jesus Christ.

 

When you feel
guilty and confused,
let it not be the confusion
of a despairing soul
But one that
is repenting.

     

Through their eternal and
Infinite love, the Father ad

 

My discomfort, my worry,

     

My sinfulness,
My ungratefulness,
Who can fathom them?
No one but you my God!

 

To satisfy the hungers
Of your heart in things,
But in God
The creator of all things,
Their beginning and end.

     

Follow the advice Paul
The Apostle whether you eat
Or drink or whatever you do,
Do all for the love of God.

 

We should choose that type
Of inner prayer,
Which we find
The least difficult and
The most fruitful.

     

We do no love
Our neighbor as ourselves
Unless we care for our
Neighbor's eternal salvation
As if it were our own

 

Lay up your treasure in
Heaven, where thieves
Can not break in.
Be large-handed
To God's poor
And to God's work!

     

How many people could only
Open their eyes
To the light of truth,
How different would the scene be
That their eyes gaze on.

 

May the life
Of the lord Jesus Christ
Be my life,
Now and forever.

     

May God your banker!
If God wanted you
To give yourself
More to prayer
In order to practice virtue,
Wouldn't you do it?

 

Although Mary was neither
A priest nor an apostle,
She applied herself to God's
kingdom so much that she
surpasses all the Apostles.
For that reason,
The Church salutes her
As Queen of Apostles.

     

God does not
Look upon you
In the same way
That you think
About God.

 

Let us walk trusting Christ,
Like a gazelle
Or a young heart swift
On all the paths of justice.

     

Mary speaks to us:
My child, look on my divine son
Hanging on a cross.
It is the book from which you
Are to learn
A necessary lesson.

 

Do not seek
God looks upon you
With loving mercy.

     

Even in your
Trials and agonies,
But with deeds.

 

I will not fear those
Who can kill my body,
But those who can help
Me to lose my soul and you,
O God.

     

Do not foolishly presume
To know the moments
And the hours which are
In the hand of God.

 

God is the true life;
God will always be with you.
Thus you will always have
The true life.

     

Trials are a sure sign
That God is with you.

 

It is love
That brings Jesus
To wherever
There is want and need

     

Let us seek God.
In God alone
We will be safe

 

Trials are a sure sign
That God is with you.

     

Look at yourself
And all your life
From the viewpoint
Of God's infinite power,
Wisdom, love
And mercy.

 

Show mercy toward your
Neighbor in order to obtain
Mercy for yourself.

     

Look at yourself
And all your life
From the viewpoint
Of God's infinite power,
Wisdom, love
And mercy.

 

You are not
Beyond the reach
Of God's
Infinite mercy.

     

Jesus wished to say:
Blessed are you,
Although persecuted by the world,
Because the kingdom
Of heaven is yours

 

You are well off;
If you are loved and esteemed.
Return thanks to God
And the Blessed Mother.

     

Your distress is the object
Of God's goodness and mercy.

 

God be with you in all your
Apostolic undertakings.

     

Draw near to the holiness
Of the Church's heroes
By reading their lives.
Then you will catch
The fire of their zeal.

 

We must begin
To reform our lives
By putting all our confidence
In God.

     

Entrust to our lady
All things that may
Concern your health
Of mind and body;
Do not let anything
Worry you.

 

Mary speaks to us: learn from
The divine exemplar, Jesus Christ,
To have charity toward your
Neighbor, not with strong words
And thirst for holiness
The more we
Shall be filled.

     

Jesus Christ assures us:
The more we hunger
as to be well prepared
for death.

 

My God
that all may be
one fold and
one shepherd.

     

My child, remember that if
You have suffered, you also
Have consolation in time and
Eternity.

 

Experience shows us
that when a group of people
are intensity of activity
and work is
easily lost.

     

I can tell you
From my heart
That God is with you.

 

In God
I always find myself
united with you
in all your works.

     

Draw near to Jesus;
Learn from him
How to obtain the power
And grace to become meek
And gentle of heart.

 

This is not the time to think,
speak or act as a child,
but as a man or woman
of God.

     

With humility
And a childlike confidence
Ask for the light of God's
Truth and Jesus will rejoice
To give it to you.

 

What God demands of you
is love, gratitude,
and cooperation.

     

To pretend
Not to have to die
Would be foolish

 

Send forth, o Lord,
laborers into your vineyard,
and spare your people.

     

If you have failed
in the past
by not using well
the gifts of God,
do not lose heart.

 

Let us pray
that we may enter often
into the spirit
of God's interests.

     

Whoever is with God
is always well.

  Sufferings will have an end.
their reward will never end.
     

Let us profit
by the vivid impression
made by the death of others.

 

Obedience
will never cost anyone
as much as it cost

     

Live in such a way
Jesus Christ.

 

The delight of Jesus
has always been with the poor.

     

Love does not seek
its own advantage,
but the advantage
of Jesus Christ.

 

Everyone must try to prevent
the eternal loss
of their neighbor and
must use all means

for their salvation
     

In the Christian,
there is more to do
than to say.
so few words
and many works.

 

Lord, grant that I may never
profane your sacred words,
neither in speaking them
nor in writing them.
my intention
is that you be my
speaking and
writing.

     

Anyone who prays
must do so persistently.

 

With a sigh a relief,
breathe in God.

     

Take head
that your pupils
do not surpass
you in love.

 

Jesus was ready
to do everything
he had to do
for the whole world,
just to save
one single soul

     

Some priests and lay people
longed for the promised moment
when there would be
one fold and one shepherd.

 

During the day,
humble and fervent
short prayers must be recited...
Jesus, my mercy;
You can breathe
in God and
breath out God.

     

We hope that through
our fervent prayers
God will let that day
come about soon,
Which sees
the whole world
as one fold
with one shepherd.

 

All who are called and chosen
have received from the lord
talents in a measure
according to their election
and holy vocation.
but everything
that pleases God

     

My God,
I always have
the need to ask you!

  More than the talent
and ability of the preacher,
prayer makes the preaching
of the Gospel fruitful.
     

I do not want anything
that displeases God
in Christ's footsteps,
because imitating him
is the essence of Christian life
and the quick road
to perfection.

 

The constant prayer
of many fervent Christians
brings forth the blessing
and support for the laborers
in the lords vineyard.

     

God is more generous
in giving than
we are in asking.

 

Are you perhaps unaware
of the fact
that the triune God
is dwelling within you?

     

When we desire
something useful,
it is God who instills this wish,
and when we pray for it,
it is truly God
who asks through us.

 

The best method
of private prayer
is that which the spirit
of the person finds easiest
and most fruitful.

     

My God, act in me
as you wish...
Do everything in me.
you are my all,
now and forever.

 

Nurture us with
your divine life and
thus make us
a new creation.

     

Are you scholars?
then contribute as much as possible,
that the Father, the son and Holy Spirit,
the mysteries of redemption
and the law of the Gospel
be made known.

 

The most precious
will of God
be our food,our drink,
our rest and our paradise
here on earth.

     

Lord Jesus
create us anew.
be or life.

 

In every movement
of my body, and every act of
my mind, I intend
to give God infinite glory.

     

I must tell you
that you are not constant
in your endeavors
to do good.

 

In every movement
of my body, and every act of
my mind, I intend
to give God infinite glory.

     

Are you rich in material goods?
Then use them as far as you can
for an increase in the means
that support the spreading
of the faith.

 

I make the greatest
use possible of every means
to make the flame of Baptism
burn brightly.

     

All Christians must follow
God sends us all hardships
out of infinite love.

 

Consider this thought:
Queen of apostles,
realizing our weakness,
we entrust the renewal of
our personal lives and
our apostolate to
your intercession.

     

Do not try
to escape suffering.

 

Hearts that possess love are
fit to receive all God's graces.

     

If cheerfulness and joy
are lacking, few will
be attracted to
follow Jesus Christ.

 

Where you cannot reach with
your works, you will reach
with humility and trust in god.

     

continue to pray
with humility, confidence
and perseverance.

 

Anyone can excel in the good of the
apostolate, because god judges
the perfection and value of the
labor and work according to
the intentions of the heart.

     

I am bound to live
as the living image
of the infinite love of the Father and son.

 

Where you cannot reach with your works,
you will reach with humility
and trust in God.

     
Fear nothing. God will fulfill you.  

Everything is well when it is as God wishes.

     

Through the mercy of our God and
the grace of our lord Jesus Christ,
you will bear fruit.

 

God looks on you with loving mercy.
The Blessed virgin loves and protects
you. What more could you ask?

     

Oh my god, I ask you to give
me whatever insight I need to
discern the innermost part
of my heart.

 

 Jesus, mournful unto death,
dragged and bound with
cords and chains, clothed in a
robe of disgrace, have
mercy on me.

     

Remember that paradise has
been prepared for you by God's mercy.

 

No obedience will ever cost more than
it cost Jesus Christ.

     

God has shown us Mary,
who has so walked in the footsteps
of Jesus that she excelled all the
angels and all the elect.

 

Let us not forget the three fold
requisite of the Christian life :
deny yourself; take up your cross;
and follow Jesus Christ.

     

I am confused thought that you
would understand me. I must not
have expressed my self clearly
enough.

 

Behold the Madonna,
she wishes
to be with you.
she is the great
missionary.
of Jesus.

     

In all actions, we should keep before
our eyes our exemplar, mode
l and practical norm; our lord
Jesus Christ

 

God wants to enlighten the
mind of the sinner.

     

As her children,
we wish to bring joy
to Mary, our Mother.

 

Pray, and pray again,
so that God
may send workers.

     

As Mary is
my special intercessor,
I am sure she will help
and all in the Upper Room
where the Apostles
received the
Holy Spirit.

 

My God, who can give me tears?
I want to cry because
of my enormous ingratitude
toward your infinite love
and infinite mercy!

     

Following our Lord
demands great confidence
in God and
great distrust of ourselves.

 

Let our life be always
at the foot of the cross
of our Lord Jesus Christ.
in him, we always
find greater happiness

     

If we do not pray
or do not pray properly,
we build a dam
before the goodness of God
who wants
to inundate us.

 

Place yourselves
In the hands of Mary
and do not let anything
worry you.

     

The royal road
to sanctity is humility
and trust in God.

 

With a happy and cheerful face,
We can prove
that the imitation of Christ
fills our lives with joy.

     

Through a continuous life
of deep humility and
great trust in God,
we learn and practice
the difficult art of
overcoming
all temptations.

 

Courage
is but frailty at its best.

     

Lord, enrich me with your mercy,
transform me into
your mercy.

 

When Jesus Christ
teaches you to ask
for something in prayer,
it is a sign that he wishes
you to have it.

     

Prayer is easy
and possible for anyone
because divine mercy
does not exclude anyone
but urges all to pray.

 

Let us consider what words
of humility, meekness,
love, patience and prudence
have mercy on me.

     

Anyone who prays
must do so
in the name
our lord Jesus Christ
would utter.

 

St. peter and others
who were for a time
as wandering sheep
of the fold,
will how you
the way back again.

     

Establish for yourself
a regular daily exercise
of prayer.

 

It is our task
to co-operate in
the spreading of
the Gospel with
the power of God.

     

Jesus, stripped and scourged,
crowned with thorns
and greeted with derision,
spat upon, struck and ridiculed,
have mercy on us.

 

Let courage
lighten your step
and quicken your pace,
in the way that leads
to everlasting glory.

     

Many are sadly disappointed
when they cannot find
a little mote
in their neighbor's eye!

 

The goal of every thought,
word and action
must be God
form whom
every good comes.

     

Jesus, poor and scorned,
unknown and despised,
betrayed and cheaply sold,
have mercy on me

 

Let your lips never
cease to utter
the desire of 
your heart,
"thy kingdom come"

     

Your neighbor's sin
is no excuse
for your uncharitableness.

 

I wnat nothing but God!
Nothing!
Only God!

     

Seek God always
and you will always
find God.

 

Everything is reparable
with confidence in God.

     

Pray that the will
of the most High
be done on Earth
even as it is
done in Heaven.

 

Jesus, laden with
the cross of our sins,
nailed to infamous tree
between two thieves,
wearied with insults,

     

Anyone
who receives from God
the grace to do works
of charity and to profit by them,
will be the recipient
of new graces.

 

In order to arrive
at genuine joy,
it is necessary to pass
through genuine suffering.
until death, lovingly nailed
to the mystic cross.

     

God is always gracious
toward your weakness
your weakness is the object
of God's goodness
and mercy.

 

Jesus Christ assures us:
the more we hunger
and thirst for holiness,
the more we shall be filled.

     

All must mediate often
on the obedience
of the crucified lord.

  Eternal Father,
it is your will
that all should
be saved.
     

Show mercy
for your neighbor
in order to obtain
mercy for yourself.

 

Only one person
without the spirit
of Jesus Christ
will cause great harm.

     

Faith cannot
be spread throughout
the world unless it is
first reanimated 
among Catholics
and their charity
rekindled.

 

Remember that the
eternal reward is not proportioned
to the size of the harvest
but rather to the amount
of effort spent.

     

With the help of divine grace,
you can do even greater things
than all the saints together.

 

I recommend you
to that portion of the flock
that is most easily neglected:
the poor, the sick, and the dying.

     

It is love
that brings Jesus
to wherever
there is want and need.

 

I resolve to love Mary
with the  love
with which God loved her.

     

The ministry of the Gospel...
like a clap of thunder
that arouses the unhappy slaves
of sin to repentance,
to save them.

 

If many people
could only open their eyes
to the light of truth,
how different would the scene be
that their eyes gaze on.

     

For the love
of Jesus Christ,
we must persevere

 

My Jesus, I want to
leave you no more.

     

The only good is heaven.

 

Your food must be
 the infinite love  of God.

     

I would like to become
Food to feed the hungry.

 

Do not believe
 that you cannot
 do what the great saints
of the Church have done!

     

I would like to become
Clothing to cover the naked.

 

I would like to become
 a soft bed for the weary.

     

I would like
 to become life
 to raise the dead.

 

Rest assured
 That I neither had nor have
 the intention of abandoning you.

     

Oh my eternal, infinite,
immeasurable,
 incomprehensible God,
you are the food
 of my soul.

 

God gave us the darkness
 of the night to bring us rest
 after the struggles of day,
 and also to prepare us
for the eternal rest in heaven.

     

May everyday be lived
 as a thanksgiving for
 the Mass celebrated
and a preparation for the Mass
 to be celebrated.

 

May your hunger be great
and your thirst to advance
 in holiness be ardent
 and do not doubt:
 God will satisfy you.

     

We will use all
as good stewards
 so that we will attain
 our last and glorious end.

 

Woe to us if we preach alms,
 and we do not
 open our hands to the poor.

     

Since we have been created
 in the image of God,
we are endowed with
 and urge proper to our nature,
 to do good always and
never to be lazy.

 

We must be content
 with our food and clothing,
 so that we may have
 some small offering
to give to those in need.

     

Lord, take all of me,
 destroy my life
and let your life be my life.

 

God wishes us to make use
of medicine in our illnesses.

     

My God, my infinite,
immense, incomprehensible
 mercy! I do not
know you as i should.

 

I ask you to say often
 and from your heart:
 "Oh Lord, in you have I open;
let me never be put to shame;
your mercy endures forever."

     

There are times,
 when more than
ordinary prayer is needed
 to put aright minds and hearts.

 

Our heritage is God,
 God entirely,
the Father, the Son,
 and the Holy Spirit.

     

Often glance with confidence
 at the picture of
 Jesus and Mary that i give you.
You will be comforted.

 

My God, in your infinite love,
 you created me according
to your image and likeness.
 Help me to use your gifts
 and improve myself
so as to become totally
your living image.

     

Your most serious illness
 is mistrust.

 

The only purpose
 is the glory of God.

     

My God,
 you are infinite goodness.
You want to
spend yourself infinitely.

 

I resolve to glorify God
as Jesus Christ glorifies God
 when he was visible on this Earth.

     

Pray to obtain the grace
which will enable you
to rid yourself of mistrust
and fill you with
 spiritual confidence.

 

All, young and old, healthy and
 sick, in any position of life
 assigned to them by God,
can participate fully
in the apostolic mission
 of Jesus Christ
by any means whatsoever.

     

It must be remembered
that if holy joy is lacking,
very few souls
will be led to God.

 

Eternal word,
 Redeemer of all creation,
 lead all people to yourself.

     

If we are children of God,
 we must love those God loves
and seek what God seeks,
namely, the salvation
of all people.

 

I wish so much
to be the occasion
that ever more
 increases God's glory.

     

Lord Jesus,
 you nourish us with your light
 and destroy all the darkness within us.

 

I would like
 to become light
for the blind.

     

Trust God like a child!

 

Our faith is a grace and a gift.

     

 The greatest weakness
 is anxiety in all things.

 

Put everything
in God's hands.

     

One cannot be indifferent 
to small gifts and contributions.
Often these small means,
combined, result in greater sums
 which can  achieve
great results.

 

Console yourself
 with the thought of the
 delight you give God
by enduring everything
as God wills it.
Patience!
Patience!

     

Let nothing disturb you,
let nothing frighten you:
God alone is sufficient!

 

God will reward
your zeal and love.

     

Every mission
in the true Church of Jesus
Christ is called
Catholic Apostolate.

 

May God grant
that much good be done
through these printed prayers.

     

Promises and expectations
will be fulfilled
When it pleases God.

 

Imagine that every day is the
first and last day of your life.

     

Remember that
the trial distressing you
is not to death,
but to eternal life in glory.

 

Even one person filled with
the spirit of Jesus Christ will do much.

     

The only example
is the life of Jesus Christ

 

Is an image of the eternal,
the infinite, the immense,
the incomprehensible.

     

We are truly children of
God, heirs of God
and co-heirs with Christ.

 

Time is precious and brief;
the past does not return.