Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists Quotes

“The Liturgy may be considered a school for acquiring four fruits: the presence of God, sorrow for sin, joy, and prayer.”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists

“Let us consider ourselves an exhausted traveler, panting for breath and parched with thirst, looking for a cool spring. At last, I see one, but it is on a high, steep rock. I thirst. The more I look at that spring, which would so refresh me as to enable me to continue my journey, the more I yearn to quench my increasing thirst. I will, cost what it may, reach that spring; and I make every effort, but all in vain. But, there is someone near, who seems to be awaiting my request for help, in order to help me. He even carries me in the steepest places, and after a few minutes, I am able to quench my thirst. In like manner, we can drink of the living waters of grace flowing from the Heart of Jesus.”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists

“O Lord Jesus, with Thy most kind and merciful, and yet most powerful, hand, deign to form my heart so that it may be like Thine.”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists

“Father St. Jure, S.J., commenting on Canticles 8:6 — “Place me as a seal upon thy heart and as a seal upon thy arm” — says that “the heart signifies the interior, contemplative life, and the arm, the exterior, active life, and that Holy Scripture mentions the heart and the arm together in order to show that both modes of life can be found perfect together in one person. The heart is mentioned first, because it is far more noble and necessary than the arm.”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists

“Action, to prove fertile, stands in need of contemplation;”
― Dom Jean-Baptiste Chautard, Spiritual Handbook for Catholic Evangelists