He Summoned and Sent Them

The following was taken from the Magnificat meditation for September 27, 2017

God’s works are not regulated by our plans and wishes. We should be content with making the best of the few talents he has placed in our hands, and not distress ourselves about having more or greater ones. If we are faithful in that which is little, he will place us over that which is great. That, however, must come from him, and not be the result of our efforts. Let us leave it to him and curl ourselves up in our shells. The company began without any plan on our part. It has multiplied by God’s guidance alone…. Let us continue to act in the same way. Such abandonment will please God greatly, and we shall be at peace.

The spirit of the world is restless, and wishes to do everything.

Let us leave it to itself.

Let us have no desire to choose our own paths, but walk in those which God may be pleased to prescribe for us. Let us regard ourselves as unworthy that he should make use of us, or that others should think of us, and then all will be well with us. Let us offer ourselves to him to do and to suffer all things for his glory and the establishment of his Church. He asks for nothing else. If he desires results, they rest with him and not with us.

Let us courageously extend the confines of our heart and will in his presence, and let us not decide upon doing this thing or that until God has spoken. Let us implore him to grant us the grace to labor meanwhile to practice those virtues which our Lord practiced during his hidden life.

» Saint Vincent de Paul | Saint Vincent de Paul († 1660) devoted his priestly life to alleviating human suffering and caring for the poor.