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Difficult Beginnings
Wimmer Wednesday. Every beginning is difficult, but through hard work, patience, and perseverance, we overcame many difficulties and managed to increase and prosper. TO CASSINESE CONGREGATION St. Vincent, March 16, 1858
Wimmer Wednesday. Every beginning is difficult, but through hard work, patience, and perseverance, we overcame many difficulties and managed to increase and prosper. TO CASSINESE CONGREGATION St. Vincent, March 16, 1858
Wimmer Wednesday. There is danger that our missionary fathers, while they are preaching to others, may themselves neglect the Rule. To avoid this, I always send them in pairs to their mission stations, and in another year, I hope to send a third priest to each station. One must always Read more…
Wimmer Wednesday. The devil tries all kinds of ways to harm us. Yet the material loss in such cases is always replaced by spiritual gain, in that the proven ones reveal themselves and the chaff is separated from the wheat. TO RUDOLPH VON OBERKAMP St. Vincent, September 18, 1857
Wimmer Wednesday. I am fully aware as you warned me in your last letter of the hazards of too-hurried expansion, and I am not overlooking the dangers that exist for the young priests. My zeal is so impatient, however, that I do not want to delay. We live in youthful, Read more…