Today's devotion: let's take a Saint as an example

1. How much it can on our heart. We live largely imitation; in seeing others doing good, an irresistible force moves us, and almost drags us to imitate them. Saint Ignatius, Saint Augustine, Saint Teresa and a hundred others recognize from the example of the Saints much of their conversion ... How many confess that they have drawn from there, virtue, ardor, flames of holiness! And we read and meditate very little on the lives and examples of the Saints! ...

2. Our confusion compared to them. Compared to sinners, pride blinds us, like the Pharisee close to the tax collector; but before the heroic examples of the Saints, how small we feel! Let's compare our patience, our humility, the resignation, the fervor in the prayers with their virtues, and we will see how miserable are our boasted virtues, our pretended merits, and how much we have to do!

3. We elect a particular saint to our model. Experience shows how useful it is to elect a saint every year as protector and teacher of a virtue that we lack. It will be sweetness in St. Francis de Sales; it will be the fervor in Santa Teresa, in S. Filippo; will be the detachment in St. Francis of Assisi, etc. Trying to reflect on its virtues all year round, we will make some progress. Why leave out such a good practice?

PRACTICE. - Choose, with the advice of the spiritual director, a saint to your patron, and, from today, follow his examples. - A Pater and Ave to the elected Saint.