Day after day with Father Cestac: FEBRUARY
FEBRUARY: Work
1. The spirit of poverty will always keep you as true Servants of Mary in work.
2. Even in recreation, always do something. Your work can be so simple, but never give it up.
3. The work is the unique resource of the community in its immense needs.
4. Our Divine Mother wants the work of her poor Servants be recognized by those who can and should recognize it.
5. We must redouble our zeal and devotion, to earn our bread and the bread for these children in the sweat of our brow.
6. A strong and constant work develops the bodies and strengthens the souls.
7. Mary, you do not call any fortune in your work, you want only the dedication to the work. You bless this work; when it is not enough, you supplement it either by miracles or by charities, which help the work, but never dispense with it.
8. The sand fertilized by the labor have become a living oasis.
9. Received in a foster home, the orphans are trained to love work.
10. The congregation herself felt the call by going to the country side to spread the love of soil and of work with the instructions.
11. It is the silence; work and the prayer are the means of regeneration.
12. These are difficult moments; the community is very numerous; however, we go forward and things are done without too much trouble although with a continual and very dedicated work.
13. In the community everyone must work according to her ability to help and to make useful herself for the common good.
14. I ask that the sisters are to be liable to a reasonable work, thoroughly dedicated but do not exhaust their strength.
15. Penitents have to work in the agricultural field.
16. Servants of Mary carry with them this love of work on the soil which they are happy to maintain in the rural populations.
17. It is especially by the agricultural work of Servants of Mary, by themselves managing the poor repentant girls to find the resources to meet their needs by cultivating the fields.
18. It was necessary to try, especially for an institution based on a new idea that had not been realized yet: the application of these girls to the agricultural works.
19. Do not be surprised that the Servant of Mary is thrifty and laborious, not for herself that she works, is for the works of mercy entrusted to it.
20. Each one has to work in the community; the sisters are not received to be an object of charity.
21. The Blessed Virgin Mary allows us to draw a legitimate price from our work, but it must be a secondary aspect and absolutely under the great view of the glory of God.
22. Our founder took for himself and imposed as a rule never to ask anything but to draw our life, reduced to mere necessary in work and prayer.
23. The work is not to grow rich, but it is happy to do well, work is to live without asking to anyone.
24. It is just that the sisters are remunerated according to their hard work and what they earn from their work used to feed the family of orphans, penitents, sick people, etc.
25. Each will be applied according to their capacities or education, or needlework or even those who have been accustomed to it, to the fields.
26. Teach them that great and continual penance is the daily work.
27. The community needs a large number of Sisters for the necessities of the work, to whom the work is more or less the only means of livelihood.
28. If anything remains of her work and dedication, would the Servants Mary be not happy to offer something to these unfortunate poor from her savings gathered of the work.