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Finding Peace in the Storm
he expressed his sentiments in a poem on God’s
will. The wide acclaim it received may have suggested
to him the thought that a tract on the same
subject would be helpful to the souls of others. If
this be true, his surmise proved correct, for the appearance
of his subsequent pamphlet was greeted
with instant favor.
Cardinal Villecourt, in his Life of St. Alphonsus, quotes
long passages from this pamphlet and ends by saying:
“Our Saint frequently read it himself and when his sight
had failed, he arranged to have it read to him by others.”
This brochure bears the stamp of Alphonsian simplicity
of style and solidity of doctrine. Moreover, the
instances he cites from the lives of the saints have a gentle
graciousness and contain a fragrance that is redolent of
the Fioretti of St. Francis of Assisi.
Through God’s grace and our Lady’s prayers, may a
diligent reading of the book bring us far along the way
of perfection by the cultivation of uniformity with God’s
holy will!
— Thomas W. Tobin, C.Ss.R.
October 16, 1952
Feast of St. Gerard Majella, C.Ss.R.
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