“Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.”
“Avoid slander, because it is difficult to retract. Avoid offending anyone for to ask forgiveness is not delightful.”
“What kind of work can be more noble than to cultivate the minds of young people, guarding it carefully, so that the knowledge and love of God and His holy precepts go hand-in-hand with learning? To form young Christians and citizens, isn’t this the most beautiful and noble minded way to make use of life, of all one’s talents and energy?”
COLLECT: O Almighty God, grant that the example of the holy confessor John may help us to advance in the science of the saints and in mercy towards others, so that we may obtain forgiveness for ourselves through his merits.
“Going hand-in-hand
with that true brand of humility
one saw in him a great childlike humility.
There was nothing deceitful or ambiguous
in his actions and words.
Whatever was in his heart, he revealed,
unhesitantly and honestly.
If he thought his words,
even when speaking the truth,
could accidentally offend someone,
he humbly asked for forgiveness
before approaching the Altar.”
Pope Clement X
(In the Bull of Canonisation
of St John Cantius on 16 July 1767)
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I appreciate the mention of humor. Especially maybe taking ourselves with more than a grain of salt.
“Fight all error, but do it with good humor, patience, kindness, and love. Harshness will damage your own soul and spoil the best cause.”
As we are all sinners and everyone we ever meet is a sinner – except that 1 guy & his mom 😉 I’m sure we can all think of many people who need to read that 10 times.