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Called to Life
by Rev. Jacques Philippe
One of the most gifted retreat masters in the world, Rev. Jacques Philippe, has written a new book, Called to Life, that will help you recognize the call of God and know what He wants you to do.
After one retreat, a young woman approached Fr. Philippe and told him her life was a complete disaster. Her fiancé had left her in the lurch, and she was out of work. What’s more, she had family problems including a bad relationship with her father.
Fr. Philippe couldn’t solve her problems, but after thinking about her situation he said a few words to her, and she left peaceful and content. Those words of wisdom could also help you get through a tough situation.
Fr. Philippe’s new book also describes how reading the Bible in a certain way can cause a Scripture verse to leap off the page and give you exactly the message from God that you need right now. If your Bible reading has become spiritually dry and unproductive,
I strongly recommend that you follow Fr. Philippe’s centuries-old method of reading the Bible to meet your here-and-now need for light, encouragement, and guidance.
With remarkable clarity Fr. Philippe describes this method of Bible reading on pages 109 to 117. Best of all, it’s simple. Anyone can do it. And it only takes 15 minutes a day! This method, which has withstood the test of time, is considered “the best way to enter a life of prayer.” If you’ve tried this method before and it didn’t work, Fr. Philippe’s guidance will help give you a breakthrough. His book reveals the secret of finding true happiness.
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Too Small a World: The Life of Mother Frances Cabrini
by Theodore Maynard; Forward by Cardinal Timothy Dolan
During St. Cabrini’s childhood she became fascinated with the Church’s greatest missionary after St. Paul the Apostle: St. Francis Xavier, S.J., who traveled the world winning souls for Christ.
Her heart burned with desire to become a great missionary like him and go to China. But no community of nuns would accept her, telling her that her health was too frail to be a nun. This rejection is why she founded her own missionary order of nuns: the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus and founded schools and orphanages throughout Italy.
But she needed the Pope’s permission to fulfill her dream of missionary work in China, The Pope said no. But he could see the the intensity of her ambition and instructed her to set sail for America with her small band of nuns to help the impoverished, desperate Italian immigrants there.
Facing hopeless obstacles and impossible difficulties at every turn, St. Cabrini always, always, always found a way to achieve what she wanted for the glory of God!
Incredible as it sounds, this frail lady who was “too unhealthy to be a nun” criss- crossed the ocean several times and out-traveled even her hero St. Francis Xavier. She founded schools, orphanages, and hospitals not just in New York but also in Chicago, Seattle, California, New Orleans, Central America, South America, France and Spain. Not bad for a frail nun who died at the age of 67.
Although she died before she could fulfill her ambition to help the people of China, her order eventually expanded her work into China — fulfilling even that dream of hers! The title of the book says it all: This World Is Too Small. The world was indeed too small for St. Cabrini’s colossal ambition to help people in need.
After her death, one of her nuns in the Manhattan hospital she’d founded made a grave mistake in the solution she mixed to wash out an infant’s eyes. She blinded the little boy named Peter Smith. Doctors said there was no hope for restoring sight to Peter’s severely scarred eyes. The nuns pinned a relic of St. Cabrini to his pajamas and prayed all night for a miracle. In the morning, the scars on his eyes were completely gone. It was a verified miracle!
