Quote/s of the Day – 18 July – St Camillus de Lellis MI (1550-1614) “The Giant of Charity,” Confessor, Priest and Founder the Order of the Ministers of the Sick, or simply as the “Camillians”
“Because, without doubt, within a few days,
I will go to another life,
given that I am most grave
because of my long infirmities …
it appears to me that I would fail in my duty,
if, before this life ends, I did not tell you,
with all simplicity and rectitude,
what I have heard and hear in myself,
about our holy Order, so that everyone
may walk with the rectitude and faithfulness
which God wants of us.
He asks us, that we do not bury
the very valuable talent which God has placed
in our hands, so that we may achieve holiness
in life and then, in eternal glory.
There is also another reason –
speaking in conscience and in truth,
one can almost say that this Foundation
was done in a miraculous way,
with a view to the glory of His Divine Majesty
and of such a great good for the souls
and bodies of our neighbours …”
~Letter from his deathbed~
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St Camillus de Lellis MI (1550-1614)
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