The Cure of Ars: his message

man of Eucharistic

He spent whole nights in prayer in front of the Blessed Sacrament, in his church. "The food of the heart, it is the body and the blood of God... Live of him in order to live for him "

man of Forgiveness

In the last years of his life, he confessed more than 16 hours per day. "The Good God is always been willing to receive us... His greater pleasure is to forgive us... "

man of prayer

He lived the offering of himself deeply and used to feel himself happy only when he could remain in the church to request. "The man is a poor who needs all to ask God. When you pray, you know that the Lord is there "

model of the Priests

He was declared " Patron saint of all the priests of the universe " and he is a model of pastoral charity. "I would like to gain hearts with good God... It is the priest who continues the work of the redemption on the ground... The priest is not a priest for him... He is not for him, he is for you.

Some thoughts of the Holy Curé of ARS:

Oh! how I love those words said the first thing in the morning: I will do and suffer everything this day for the Glory of God...nothing for the world or personal interest, all to please my Savior! - Counsel (T.).

Does our conduct correspond with our Faith? - Sermon on the Incarnation 1.

God does not require of us extraordinary things. - Catechism on Pride (Sp.).

A pure soul is with God, as a child with its mother.It caresses and embraces her, and its mother returns all its enderments. - Cathechisme on the Soul (M.)

With the Name of Jesus we shall overthrow the demons; we shall put them to flight. With this Name, if they dare to attack us, our battles will be victories... -Sermon on Temptation (Sp)

Our Guardian Angels are our most faithful friends, because they are with us day and night, always and everywhere.We ought often to invoke them. - Sermon of the Guardian Angels.

The Saints were so dead to themselves that they care a little whether others agreed or not. - Cathechisme on Pride (Sp.).

There are people who make capital out of everything, even winter.If it is cold they offer their little suffering to God. Cathechisme Saying (Sp.).

He who does see, does not know; he who does not know, does not love; he who does love God, love himself, and at the same time love his pleasures. - Catechisme on the love of God (Sp.).

The Wise Men overcame every difficulty and surmonted every obstacle, in order to follow the Star; - Sermon on the Magi. Have a pure intention. - Consel (T.) God speaks to us without ceasing by his good inspirations. - Consel (T.). Avarice is an inordinate love of riches and and the good things of things of life. Jesus Christ,to cure us of it, was born in extreme poverty, deprived of all conforts.He chose a Mother was poor. He willed to pass as the son of humble workman. - Notre-Dame d’Ars, Meditation 23.

How pleasing to our Lord in the Blessed Sacrement is the short quarter of an hour that we steal from our occupations,from something of no use,to come and pray to him, to visit him,to console him. - Catechisme on real Presence (Sp.).

You must accepte your cross; if you baer it courageously it will carry you to Haeven. - Counsel (M.).

Happy is who lives and dies under the protection of the blessed virgin; - Sermon on the feast of the rosary. Do not be like the proud who always want to assert their own opinion... I have known people with whom this had become a daily habit. - On Mortifying Self-Will (C.).

After the exemple of St Antony ,my children let us be always ready for the combat... - Sermon on temtation (Sp.).

"When I am about to talk to anybody",said a young village girl,I picture to myself Jesus Christ and how gracious and friendly he was to everyone". -Jesus Christ our exemple (F.).

My children, we are in reality only what we are in the eyes of God, and nothing more. - Sermon on Pride (Sp.).

We ought to love what He loved on earth, and to set no store by those things which He regarded as of no account. - Sermon on the Incarnation,1.

Directly anyone feels they are losing their fervour, they sould at once make a Novena to the Holy Spirit, asking him to give them Faith and Love. - Catechisme on the Holy Spirit (Sp.).

We can only receive God once a day; a soul enkindled with divine love makes up for this by the desire of receiving him every moment of the day. - Catechisme on the Holy EUcharist (M.)

God will forgive those who have forgiven: that is the law. - Homely (Sp.)

In your work, offer your difficuties and troubles quite simply to God... and you will find that his blessing will rest upon you and all you do. - On the sanctification of Daily Life (É).

A Christian either rules his inclinations, or his inclanations rule him... -Homely on Temptations (Sp.).

One serves God better by doing things which one takes neither pleasure nor delight. -Sayings (J.V.).

A Merchant does not consider the trouble he undergoes in his commerce, but the profit he gains by it. - The Curé of Ars in his Catechisme (Sp.).

The more we know of men, the less we love them. It is the contary with God; the more we know of him, the more we love him. - Catechisme on the love of God (M.).

"Are we in afflication?" says St John Chrysostom;"we shall find all manner of consolation at Mass.Are we tempted? Let us hear Holy Mass, and we shall find there a way of overcoming the Devil." - Eucharistic Meditation 24