With Saints and Sages - Father Lasance

VERY RARE! A book of reflections. Compiled and edited by Father Lasance. Impr, 1928. 624 page book. “Holy thoughts and tender words Are at best mere leaves and flowers, But the fruits are generous deeds - Where, O coward soul, are ours? Soon, too soon, will come the end: God forgive what’s past and gone! Mary Mother! Angels! Saints! Pray for me and help me on!” From the Introduction: Here is a garden of spiritual flowers gathered in our rambles with saints and sages while the sun was shining as well as when the rain was falling in our life. An abundance of Passion-Flowers will be found therein. Are we not the followers of Him Who has said: “Whosoever doth not carry his cross, and come after Me, cannot be My disciple”? Shall we not gladly wear the livery of the holy passion of our Divine Master? But Roses too are here, and Lilies, and Carnations and Daffodils, and Violets and Forget-Me-Nots, each one teaching its own lesson respectively of patience, love of God and love of our neighbor, innocence and purity, obedience and perfect conformity of our will with God’s most holy will, industry and sanctification of our ordinary actions, humility and piety.