littleness

Childlike in Heart, taken from the Green Booklet

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Childlike in Heart, you will receive the little infant Jesus of the Manger from the Virgin Mary his Mother

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Little Sisters of Jesus in Portugal: News from Prior Velho

This is a story about the struggle of immigrants in the neighbourhood of Prior Velho to find housing and security.  read more »


From Aubonne in Switzerland


Little sister Maria Hedwig who is Austrian, writes from her community in Aubonne near Geneva:  read more »

Being reduced to nothing

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Being reduced to nothing is the most powerful means we have of uniting ourselves to Jesus and of doing good to others.
— Charles de Foucauld

 

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When we love

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When we love, we are so small, so humble before the one we love. We feel so mean and so poor finding the one we love so perfect and so beautiful.
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Have trust, come close to me!

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By becoming such a small and gentle child, he cries out to us: Have trust, come close to me! Do not be afraid of me, do not fear.
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God who is infinite, all powerful, has become human

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God who is infinite, all powerful, has become human, the least of human beings. My way is always to seek the lowest place, to be as little as my Master, to walk with him step by step as a faithful disciple. My way is to live with my God who lived this way all his life and who has given me such an example from his very birth.
— Charles de Foucauld
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God so completely took the lowest place

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When he came on earth, God so completely took the lowest place, that no one has ever been able to take it from Him.
— Charles de Foucauld

 

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The Incarnation has its source

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The Incarnation has its source in the goodness of God, but the most wonderful of all, is the infinite humility that this mystery contains.
— Charles de Foucauld

 

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His whole life long he did nothing but go down

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His whole life long he did nothing but go down. He went down in becoming flesh, he went down in becoming a baby, went down in obeying, went down in becoming poor, rejected, persecuted, crucified, in always taking the lowest place.
— Charles de Foucauld
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