August 7
Companions of the Way (Evening)Seek ye first the kingdom of God and His righteousness, and all these things shall be added unto you.
OH, that we did but know the freedom and the happiness of a life above the world! They whose names are splendid with the most hallowed light have in their day moved along all paths of life. Among the saints of Christendom are men of toil and trade, the craftsman and the merchant, the pleader, the man of letters, orators, law-givers, warriors and leaders of mighty hosts, princes and queens and emperors. In all ranks, and all orbits of the civil state, men mortified in soul, as St. Paul, have lived unto Christ their Lord. None so fulfilled the offices and tasks of life as they—because they were above them all. None so wise, so courteous, so beloved as they; none richer or more prosperous; none more faithful in their stewardship of this world's wealth; . . . and that because they sought not their own, but the things that were Jesus Christ's.
CARDINAL MANNING
LIFE ONLY