Status Updates From Pastoral Care

"The sick should consider how healthy the heart becomes from bodily suffering, which recalls the mind to the knowledge of itself and renews the memory of illness that the healthy person typically disregards."

"The sick should be advised to preserve the virtue of patience, to continuously consider the great evils that our Redeemer suffered from those whom he created."

"The spiritual director must know great vices by their small signs"

"Doctrine does not penetrate the mind of the needy if the hand of compassion does not commend it to the soul."

"When he was small to himself, he was great to the Lord; but when he thought of himself as great, he became small to the Lord."

This is phenomenal. Should be required reading for all pastors.

"No one presumes to teach an art that he has not first mastered through study. How foolish it is there for for the inexperienced to assume pastoral authority when the care of souls is the art of arts."