This book was written in 1916 talking about events that happened 500 years ago!  There is nothing new under the sun!!

"Indeed there is today little or no regard for legitimate authority, either in the home or in organized society.  The authority entrusted to the head of the family is almost entirely discarded.  The person of the chief magistrate of city, state or nation is treated with disrespect, and  the tribunal of justice is hailed with contempt.  Majesty is no longer attached to law.  This denial of authority has demoralized all conception of respect for superiors, for property rights, and for individual liberty; and the very foundation stones of the national structure are being moved one by one, so that the structure itself is in danger of tottering and falling asunder.  The general aversion to the guidance of legitimate and divinely established law, which Luther's loose and immoral teachings introduced into the world and which have come down to our day, must be removed if domestic happiness and national prosperity would bless the land, its homes and its people. " 

The Facts about Luther

Where it all started:

 "When in this age of ours when revolution walks like a destroying angel among the nations of the earth and breathes death from its nostrils among the peaceful inhabitants thereof; when the rulers upon their thrones are unsafe; when in this very land of liberty, calling itself Protestant, a Booth strikes down the most peaceful of men, the kindly Lincoln; a Guiteau destroys the useful life of a Garfield; when at the dawn of the twentieth century a ruler chosen by his fellow citizens is murdered by the hands of the assassin Czolgosz while enjoying the quiet hospitality of a sovereign state; and when you ask for the reason that produced such murderous outrages, we bid you turn to Luther and his rebellious teachings announced and embodied in the work falsely styled "Reformation"  producing the result of a deformation. Luther is its father, the sixteenth century its cradle, and autocracy its protector and high priest."

The Facts about Luther

 

Make it the fixed purpose of your life to make all others happy as far as it is in your power, and so (for that will be necessary) to put self out of view altogether.  This then, ought to be the first thought on awaking:  "Dear Mother, for thy honor I will take care that everybody who speaks to me today shall go away happier".  This thought  is to be the first thought in your examen at night:  "How many have I failed to make happy today."

 

Go out into the world with your heart full of gentleness and pity, and you shall find the response of kindliness from others; you will not only protect yourself from being hardened, but you will draw out the gentler side of others.

Father Maturin

 

Giving thanks to God the Father, who hath made us worthy to be partakers of the lot of the saints in light:  Who hath delivered us from the power of darkness, and hath translated us into the kingdom of the Son of his love, In whom we have redemption through His blood, the remission of sins; Who is the image of the invisible God, the first born of every creature: For in Him were all things created in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones, or dominations, or principalities, or powers: all things were created by Him and in Him.  And He is before all, and by Him all things consist.  And He is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead; that in all things He may hold the primacy: Because in Him, it hath well pleased the Father, that all fulness should dwell;  And through Him to reconcile all things unto Himself, making peace through the blood of His cross, both as to the things that are on earth, and the things that are in heaven.

Colossians 1:12-20

 It is not possible , as long as we are on this earth to think exactly as those think  with whom we live; therefore it is necessary to have a large fund of sweetness to oppose sudden movements of anger, so that we may not lose the peace of our soul.

St. Francis de Sales

 

There are some who appear sweet while every thing prospers and goes according to their wishes, but at the least adversity, the least contradiction, their sweetness disappears, they are on fire.  They may be compared to a coal hidden under ashes.  Their meekness is not of the kind Our Saviour asks when He tells us to be like unto Him.

St. Bernard

 

O Lord!  if we are mistaken, it is Thou who hast led us astray; because this Faith is proved by such signs and prodigies that Thou alone couldst work them.!

Richard of St. Victor

 If it be possible, never permit yourself to become angry; never open the door of your heart to this passion under any pretext whatever.  You may not be able to drive it away, neither can you control it at will; but should it happen to take possession of you, hasten and gather your forces to preserve your peace of heart, gently, without violence, as it is important not to increase the wound, but soothe it.

St Francis de Sales

 ST. SERAPHIM OF MONTEGRANARO

Confessor of the Third Order

October 12

St. Seraphim, who from early childhood looked after his father's flocks, had acquired a love of solitude and prayer.  After his father's death he endured with patience the ill-treatment which his older brother continually meted out to him until the age of sixteen, when he entered the Capuchins.  There he made great progress in all the virtues, regularity, penance, poverty, chastity, humility, obedience, love of the poor, scrupulousness of conscience and devotion to the Passion.  He was loved by all because of his great good ness and cheerfulness.  He died in 1604.  He was canonized by Clement XIII

 Nothing can rank in importance before gentleness of manner and sweetness of demeanor toward others.

**Father Faber**