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St John Vianney – The Cure of Ars<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

If people would do for God what they do for the world,
what a great number of Christians would go to Heaven.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Private prayer is like straw scattered here and there:
If you set it on fire it makes a lot of little flames.
But gather these straws into a bundle and light them,
and you get a mighty fire, rising like a column into the sky;
public prayer is like that.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

When we receive Holy Communion, we experience something extraordinary: a joy, a fragrance, a well-being that thrills the whole body and causes it to exalt.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Every Consecrated Host is made to burn Itself up with love in a human heart.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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St John Vianney on Prayer<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Consider, children, a Christian\u2019s treasure is not on earth, it is in heaven.
Well then, our thoughts should turn to where our treasure is. Man has a noble task: that of prayer and love. To pray and to love, that is the happiness of man on earth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer is nothing else than union with God. When the heart is pure and united with God it is consoled and filled with sweetness; it is dazzled by a marvellous light. In this intimate union God and the soul are like two pieces of wax moulded into one; they cannot any more be separated. It is a very wonderful thing, this union of God with his creature, a happiness passing all understanding.We had deserved to be left incapable of praying; but God in his goodness has permitted us to speak to him. Our prayer is an incense that is delightful to God.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer is a foretaste of heaven, an overflowing of heaven. It never leaves us without sweetness; it is like honey, it descends into the soul and sweetens everything. In a prayer well made, troubles vanish like snow under the rays of the sun.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prayer makes time seem to pass quickly, and so pleasantly that one fails to notice how long it is. When I was parish priest of Bresse, once almost all my colleagues were ill, and as I made long journeys I used to pray to God, and, I assure you, the time did not seem long to me. There are those who lose themselves in prayer, like a fish in water, because they are absorbed in God. There is no division in their hearts. How I love those noble souls! Saint Francis of Assisi and Saint Colette saw our Lord and spoke to him as we speak to one another.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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