Catholic Men at Work

For this 11th Sunday after Pentecost, a special treat: thoughts from St. John Vianney, the Cure d'Ars, whose feast day we celebrated this past week. We found these at the wonderful williedoyle.org website. First, something Father Willie wrote in his diary about one of his favorite saints when he visited where the saint lived and worked in France. "In the little village Ars, near Lyons, lived and died, some fifty years ago, a simple French Curé. He had none of the great gifts which the world looks for in her famous men; so deficient was he in learning, that his Bishop hesitated about ordaining him, and he could call neither talent nor eloquence to his aid. But the Blessed Curé d’Ars possessed a marvellous, secret power over men, the power of personal holiness. For the last thirty years his life never varied. At midnight, after a broken sleep of only three hours, he entered his confessional, where for eighteen hours he absolved and consoled the hundred thousand pilgrims who annu...