FROM A TALK BY ST VINCENT TO THE DAUGHTERS OF CHARITY. (31st May 1648)
What food is to the body, prayer is to the soul. A person who would take only one meal every three or four days would immediately grow weaker and be in great danger of dying; or if he lived, he would be very weak, incapable of any useful work, ending up a mere carcass, devoid of strength and vigor. It’s just the same with someone who never or hardly ever takes the nourishment of prayer; he’ll become lukewarm, listless, without strength, courage or virtue, a trail to others and unable even to put up with himself.
Point for discussion:
Is the opening sentence to be taken at it’s face value, or is it a bit or rhetoric?
Extract from Society Manual page 96(4th Edition)
Sis Angela Enyielu (For the IT Team)
