Writings of Mo. Marguerite Guillot
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Chapter of Faults.pdf I am going to speak to you, my Sisters, on the Chapter of Faults and Direction. There are two kinds of accusations – the first is made in the Chapter Room before the Community; the second before the Superior or the Mistress of Novices in the Novitiate. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1865 |
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Differences of Character.pdf Today, I would like to speak to you about the cordiality which should reign among you, in spite of character differences. Yes, characters differ one from the other, and yet it is necessary that the most perfect agreement exist among you and that you all have the same spirit. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1870 |
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On Temptations.pdf You have come here to become Servants of the Blessed Sacrament. We have received you and you have entered the Novitiate to learn how to serve our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1874 |
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The Novitiate is a Family.pdf My dear daughters, I would like to say a few words to you as a mother does to her children – are you not here like children with their mother, and is not the Novitiate a family, the family of the Blessed Sacrament? The Father, our Venerated Father, has departed for heaven where he enjoys perpetual adoration with the elect. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1876 |
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The Novitiate is the Apprenticeship of the Religious Life.pdf My dear daughters, I would like to say a few words to you as a mother does to her children – are you not here like children with their mother, and is not the Novitiate a family, the family of the Blessed Sacrament? The Father, our Venerated Father, has departed for heaven where he enjoys perpetual adoration with the elect. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1870 |
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The Novitiate is Time of Formation.pdf Profit well from your Novitiate; devote all your attention to your formation, saying; ͞Lord, what would you have me to do?͟… He will tell you, whether by making you understand it interiorly or by the voice of those who have the mission to form you. Several among you have heard this response of our Lord and are faithful in putting it into practice Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1870 |
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The Postulancy and Novitiate.pdf My dear Sisters, we have need of seeing one another again and of resuming our meetings. This is not to say you deserve reproaches, but we are so weak; if left to ourselves, laxity introduces itself quickly into our conduct. We need then, to be spurred on to advance, while at the same time, being sustained and enlightened to preserve the spirit of our vocation, and maintain the recollection which must be the soul of the life of an adorer. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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The Novitiate is a Time of Grace.pdf A month ago I was telling you that you should take advantage of the graces that you receive and assuredly God grants them to you in abundance. How much enlightenment, counsel, advice is given to you in general and in private to instruct you in the duties of the religious life and facilitate its practice. It is up to you to examine how much profit you have drawn from them, Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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The Grace of Suffering and Spirit of Mortification.pdf Very few among us, my dear Sisters, understand the greatness of the grace attached to trials and sufferings, and some even rejoice when they have been able to avoid what vexes them to or makes them suffer. How far we are from the generosity of the saints and their knowledge of God! Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1867 |
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The Religious Life has its Trials.pdf In yesterday’s instructions we were told that in the religious life there are serene days and dark days. Is that not true my good Sisters? When grace is with us, everything is pleasant and easy, everything is agreeable, everything pleases us. Divine grace helps us; we find consolation in all that we do, Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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On Suffering.pdf Today is the feast of the Finding of the Holy Cross by St. Helena. Let us enter into the spirit of this feast in order to understand the advantages of suffering. We all have a share of the Cross, some more, others less, but all of us carry it, either exteriorly by infirmities, sickness and difficulties; or interiorly by heartaches or mental anguish, which are often more painful than any physical suffering. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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Various State of Soul.pdf What shall we deal with today my dear Sisters? I stress again the necessity of acquiring the spirit of your vocation. You must earnestly strive to practice silence, recollection and the interior life, always attentive to the inspirations of grace which do not cease to exhort you to the practice of virtue, and promptness in following them. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1884 |
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Reflection on Death.pdf It has been a long time since we last saw one another; many sad things have happened since then, but God permitted them for the good of each one of us for He has given us great graces. For my part, I was able to reflect seriously; When one finds oneself, as I did for three weeks, at the bedside of a dying person, when death is seen advancing at a rapid pace, and one says to oneself that this person will soon find herself in the presence of God who will require a Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1867 |
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On Work.pdf Dear Sisters, we ask your devotedness for the direct service of our Lord; we exhort you to it in all circumstances and by every means because this service is our greatest duty, our primary duty. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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Death to Self - The Religious Spirit.pdf Another week has passed. Each passing day draws us nearer to eternity. How essential it is to use our time well in order not to lose a single moment. I am not speaking at present of the good use of time in work, although you must be very attentive in this respect; I am speaking to you today of using your time well for eternity, by taking care to act only with a very pure intention, solely to please God. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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On Holy Communion.pdf Dear Sisters, I would like to speak to you about Holy Communion which, being the most sublime act that we can do, should be prepared for when all the care and love that is in our power. Our preparation is composed of the remote preparation and the proximate preparation, to which we can also add immediate preparation. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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On Obedience. The Gift of our Own Will.pdf I would like you to understand, my dear daughters, that religious life is a life of renunciation. When you entered this little Cenacle, you had to leave you own will at the door and dispose yourselves to do all that our Lord would ask of you by the voice of obedience. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1885 |
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On Confession.pdf Dear Sisters, today I wish to say a few more words on Confession. Certain people pass much time in examining themselves and neglect to stir themselves sufficiently to contrition and to a firm purpose of amendment. Follow, in this regard, the wise rules that our Father has given us and in which he recommends that we consecrate more time to contrition than to examen. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1866 |
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On Humility.pdf My good daughters, when an edifice is being built, pretty stones are not the only ones used. We begin by digging deeply in the earth, then we place there rough and heavy stones, which are very hard and solid, to establish the foundations. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
1883 |
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On Simplicity.pdf I have spoken to you about the vocation, my good daughters; I wish to add a word to this talk by saying that one of your virtues must be simplicity. Simplicity is the virtue of all the saints, but it was particularly that of our Father and it gave a special quality to all his other virtues so much so that there could be no doubt of the heroic virtues he practiced. Click below to view the whole content continue reading |
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