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John Vianney
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“An educated person always has two guides who walk before him: counsel and obedience.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“The curate of Ars [...] shows us as if it were the first time what confession is. He frees her from the nausea of Christians and makes her a luminous revelation of the Holy Spirit.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Adrienne von Speyr, Mistica oggettiva, edited by Barbara Albrecth, translation into Italian by Benedetto Testa, Jaca Book, Milano, 1989. ISBN 88-16-30175-9, pp. 85-86.
“[In Paradise] Up there is St. Thomas, a saint so phlegmatic that, if an ox had entered his room, he would have continued to study; and there is also St. John Eudes, who felt himself boiling with anger at the mere sight of a heretic. There's Francis de Sales, the saint of fine manners, an artist in speaking and writing; and there's the Curate of Ars, a champion of discipline on his back and potatoes eaten with mold a week after cooking.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Albino Luciani, Illustrissimi, foreword by Igino Giordani, commented by Giovanni Mocchetti, Edizioni A.P.E., Mursia, Milano, 1979, p. 94.
“Probably the greatest confessor of the Church is the holy Curate of Ars.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“But let the Curé d’Ars himself tell the touching story: “A few years ago there died a man of this parish, who, entering the church in the morning to pray before setting out for the fields, left his hoe at the door and then became wholly lost in God. A neighbour who worked not far from him, and thus used to see him in the fields, wondered at his absence. On his way home he bethought himself of looking into the church, thinking that the man might be there. As a matter of fact, he did find him in the church. ‘What are you doing here all this time?’ he asked. And the other made reply: ‘I look at the good God, and he looks at me’ (J’avise le bon Dieu et le bon Dieu m’avise).” Whenever he told this anecdote — and he did so frequently and never without tears — the Curé used to add: “He looked at the good God, and the good God looked at him. Everything is in that, my children.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Instructions de onze heures, MSS. of M. de la Bastie, p. 58. Francis Trochu, The Curé D' Ars, translated by Dom Ernest Graf (Westminster, MD: The Newman Press, 1950), p. 184
“God has filled our hearts with desires so vast and so magnificent that nothing in creation is capable of satisfying them. Thus it is that in the hope of finding some pleasure, we attach ourselves to created objects and that we have no sooner possessed and sampled that which we have so ardently desired than we turn to something else, hoping to find what we wanted. We are, then, through our own experience, constrained to admit that it is but useless for us to want to derive our happiness here below from transient things. If we hope to have any consolation in this world, it will only be by despising the things which are passing and which have no lasting value and in striving towards the noble and happy end for which God has created us. Do you want to be happy, my friends? Fix your eyes on Heaven; it is there that your hearts will find that which will satisfy them completely.”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
“If we did not have the Sacrament of Order, we would not have Our Lord. Who put it in the tabernacle? The priest. Who received your soul upon its entry into this world? The priest. Who feeds her to give her strength to make her pilgrimage? Always the priest. Who will prepare her to appear before God, washing her soul for the first time in the Blood of Jesus Christ? The priest, every time the priest. If the soul, then, comes to the hour of passing away, who will resurrect it, making it calm and peaceful? Once again the priest. You cannot think of any benefit of God without encountering, along with this memory, the image of the priest. If you went to confess to the Holy Virgin or an angel, would they absolve you? No. Would they give you the Body and Blood of Jesus? No. The Holy Virgin cannot send Her divine Son down to the Holy Host. Even two hundred angels could not absolve you. A priest, however simple he is, can do it. He can tell you, "Go in peace, I forgive you." What a great thing the priest is!”
John Vianney (1786–1859) said by 1859 at the latest wikiquote, CC BY-SA 4.0 source
Recorded in: Quoted in Gianpaolo Romanato, Pio X. La vita di papà Sarto, Rusconi, Milano, 1992, p. 224-225. As reported in Cristina Siccardi, San Pio X. Vita del papa che ha ordinato e riformato la Chiesa, edizioni San Paolo, Cinise…