#St. Joseph Marello AJD

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"Without sacrifice there is no love." - St. Maximilian Kolbe

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Love is nourished only by sacrifices, and the more a soul refuses natural satisfactions the stronger and more disinterested becomes her tenderness.

St. Therese of Lisieux (Holiness In The Ordinary, Pg. 76)

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Come here to live in profound humility and complete resignation, ready to accept with equanimity of spirit both desolations and consolations, sweetness and tribulations, dryness and repugnances.

St. Francis De Sales (Holiness In The Ordinary, Pg. 18)

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"God alone satisfies." - St. Thomas Aquinas

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Henry David Thoreau Poem

Fame cannot tempt the bard,  Who's famous with his God, Nor laurel him reward, Who has his Maker's nod.

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Through The Heart Of St. Joseph, Pg. 189

"Nothing is so strong as gentleness. Nothing is so gentle as real strength."

-St. Francis de Sales

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Tender, Gentle, Firm, And Stand Up For One's Self

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Live by Providence.

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Brief Memories Of The Life Of Joseph Marello Bishop Of Acqui, Pg. 111

God is the boss, and we are His servants. His role is to reveal His Will, and ours is to follow it fully. The more closely we are united to Him with this attitude of conformity and resignation, the more perfect our love will be, for God's Will is infinitely holy and perfect, our source of peace and happiness even amidst life's greatest trials.

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Brief Memories Of The Life Of Joseph Marello Bishop Of Acqui, Pg. 57

If he is holy, let him pray for us; if he is learned, let him teach us; but if he is prudent, let him govern us.

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Brief Memories Of The Life Of Joseph Marello Bishop Of Acqui, Pg. 50

But virtue cannot be kept hidden from others. On the contrary, it is often more evident, the more it is accompanied by modesty.

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The Ladder of Divine Ascent, Pg. 147

Always let the remembrance of death and the Prayer of Jesus, being of single phrase, go to sleep with you and get up with you; for you will find nothing to equal these aids during sleep.

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Holiness In The Ordinay, Pg. 110

Faithful to the spirit of the founder, and realizing that “noise does no good, and the good make no noise,” the Congregation works “humbly, quietly and diligently in the imitation of St. Joseph,” whom the founder appointed as its special patron and exemplar.

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God does not force anyone.  He accepts whatever is given to Him; but He gives Himself totally only to those who give themselves totally to Him.

St. Teresa (Holiness In The Ordinay, Pg. 106-107)

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God, who is the way, the truth, and the life, will be at the beginning of the journey, He will show us how to proceed, and will accompany us to Heaven.

St. Joseph Marello (Holiness In The Ordinay, Pg. 105)

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Holiness In The Ordinary, Pg. 103

In his treatise on ascetical and mystical theology, ... Tanqueray concludes that from all this one can see which souls are in the unitive way.

“They are those who possess these three qualities: a) a great purity of heart; b) a great degree of self-mastery; c) a constant need of thinking about God.”