How to be a Saint: Daily Maxims.

[thesmellypocket 1859]

THE PATH TO SAINTHOOD.

 

Daily Meditations of Father Humbert, O.S.J.

Edited by Cardinal Philip Pius Coppinger, Cong. Orat.

 

Father Humbert, O.S.J. (1696-1731), or Humbert the Slave of God, was a great mystic, scholar, preacher and monastic. Arguably one of the greatest spiritual writers of the last century, he converted from a debauched life to live a remarkably strict ascetism and state of ‘Divine Slavery’ in which he renounced his own desires entirely. These proverbs are drawn from his sayings, writings and work, and can be considered the masterpiece of Judite spirituality. He who follows these maxims will not have to fear Hades, for his soul will be in paradise, with the Angels and Saints of our Lord!

 

Father Humbert, O.S.J.

 

ONE:  Horen’s Calling

 

I: God alone is sufficient, God alone is necessary; God alone can make Saints of us. Therefore the man who has God lacks in nothing, and possesses in everything; he who does not have God wants in everything, and possesses in nothing.  

II: Since God is omnipotent and omnibenevolent, nothing should worry us. Hope and pray, for the Good will win in the end. 

III: God would not permit thee to suffer a temptation which could not, with His help, be overcome. 

IV: To go into any trial without the armour of silent prayer, is to fend off a cavalry charge alone and with a twig.

V: There is infinitely more joy in the Skies among the Angels and Saints at one repentant sinner’s soul, than at all the palaces, armies and empires in the whole world. 

VI: God can save the sinners we are, but not the Saints we pretend to be.

VII: If thou dost not see God in the beggar, drunkard and gangster, thou wilt not see Him on the altar.

VIII: The greatest testament of God’s glory in modern times is the conversion of the abominable public sinner to holiness. Therefore love sinners and wrap them in sweetness, for they can always be Saints-in-waiting. 

IX: Abandon all worry and resign yourself to God’s care. Say three words in all things: ‘Fiat voluntas Tua.’ (Thy will be done.)

X: Imitate the virtues of Saint Julia: Angelic sweetness, ardent charity, blind obedience, constant mental prayer, sublime purity, divine wisdom, heroic patience, lively faith, profound humility, and mortification in all things. 

XI: Go to Confession.

XII: God is so good that He permits us to live and even attain salvation in spite of our own evil.

XIII: Say only that which is true, necessary and beautiful.

XIV: Do only that which is true, necessary and beautiful.

XV: Pray only that which is true, necessary and beautiful.

((St. J.H. Newman)) XVI: God has created thee to do Him some definite service. He hath committed some work to thee which He has not committed to another. Thou hast thy mission. Thou mayst not know it in this life, but thou shalt be told it in the next. Thou art a link in a chain, a bond of connection between persons.

XVII: He has not created thee for naught. Thou shalt do good; do His work. Thou shalt be an angel of peace, a preacher of truth in thy own place, whilst not intending it you thou do but keep His commandments.

XVIII: Therefore, thou shalt trust Him, whatever thou art, thou canst never be thrown away. If thou art in sickness, thy sickness may serve Him, in perplexity, thy perplexity may serve Him. If thou art in sorrow, thy sorrow may serve Him. He does nothing in vain. 

XIX: He may take away thy friends. He may throw thee among strangers. He may make thee feel desolate, make thy spirit sink; hide thy future from me. Still, He knows what He is about. 

XX: Do not fear men. What can they do unto thee? Kill thee? This is nothing; fear Him who can decide your fate for eternity. 

XXI: But our God is a merciful God; therefore trust and love Him also. Fear not men and love God above all things.

XXII: It is thereby better to spend a minute meditating on the glory of the Saints and Skies, than ten hours on the horrors of iblees and Hades.

XXIII: Cultivate in thyself love, wisdom and fear: so that if mean and base men shall cut thee into a thousand pieces, each and every one of them shall love thy butcher. 

XXIV: For the fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom, but the love of God is the beginning of light.

 

Exalted Owyn.

 

TWO: Owyn’s Light

 

I: Remember, Canonist soul, that thou hast: God to worship, God to yield to; God to love and desire. The Skies to gain, the Void to avoid; 

II:  The Saints to venerate, the martyrs to imitate, the Prophets to heed, the virgins to honour, the Confessors to call; the Rosary to pray;

III: Truth to preach, Good to do, trespasses to forgive, Charity to show; enemies and friends to love.

IV: Remember, therefore, that thy true citizenship is in Heaven: God wants thee, and he wants thee a Saint. Be ever a foreigner to the world, and the closest son of the Skies instead.

V: In that regard be thee LITTLE as children: for to he that is little, mercy shall be granted: but the mighty shall be mightily tormented. 

VI: For justice is perpetual and immortal: and those who account themselves righteous in this world shall have God as their judge in the next. But those who are innocent and childlike, shall be called of God.

VII: I have heard enough of the so-called ‘rights’ of man: let us now speak of the rights of God.

VIII: Go to Confession. 

IX: Strive not for the wealth of this world. The true wealth is God’s alone to grant (Virtue 2:5), and the man burdened not by greed shall surely have greater odds of being in union with Him.

X: Do not be afraid to resign all things to God, and all prayers to thy Patron Saint. For to be the abject slave of God, is greater than to be the Chamberlain of the Emperor himself, and we come to Him best through our Saints.

XI: The intention matters. Do a little kindness for the greater glory of God: offer to the stranger a small smile, pray to bless each man you see; tell those around you how much you love them.

XII: Without God nothing is possible: with Him alone, all things are possible. 

XIII: Even the most virtuous friend will disappoint: God alone cannot disappoint, if we truly want salvation.

XIV: Truly, I say that thou art a soldier in the most important war of ages. And it is no earthly foe I speak of: it is desire, greed, iniquity, unkindness, and iblees, that thou canst defeat only by adorning thyself with the armour of God.

XV: Yet in the battle against the occasion of sin, it is the cowards who flee sin who are the victors; and those that invoke God that alone triumph.

((Ratzinger))XVI: Truth is not decided by a majority vote.

XVII: The Lord hath sworn, and He will not repent: He will never desert His Church no matter how despairing the situation may seem. He may allow fools to govern her, degenerates to preach her and cowards to protect her, but He will never abandon His covenant with the Prophets.

XVIII: From Saint Jude we know: A lifetime of kicks and beatings, of stones and shite being thrown at thee, and at pure infamy and bile being spoken of thee: my friend, this is as nothing to a mere moment with God.
XIX: When shalt thou begin to do good?

XX: God has no need of men: rather, we have need of Him.

((St. Philip)) XXI: Obedience is the true holocaust; the true sacrifice we offer to God in our hearts.

XXII: If God be with us, who can be against us?

XXIII: Thou must die.

XXIV: In this fact, not our will, but His, be done.

 

 

Exalted Godfrey praying.

 

THREE: Godfrey’s Triumph

 

*Edited, see Confessions of Father Humbert, 1.1: the original quote is in the first person.

 

I: Let us not say ‘I’, except to pray, teach and self-admonish. 

II: Lean not on thy own understanding, but trust in the LORD.

III: See in each man a potential Saint.

((Augustine))IV: Say: ‘O God, my Lord and Master, why have I loved, why in my whole life have I ever desired, anything but Thee? Why have I wandered for all but Thee? O, spirit of God, love of God, mercy of God, reside in me, and have pity on me, the most wretched sinner!’ 

V: Penance, penance; penance.

*VI: We know ourselves too well to see virtue in ourselves; God’s grace alone can save us. The fact that God does not just strike us down to Hades for our misdeeds, but instead gives us a chance to repent, makes us living proof of His mercy.

*VII: Let us be His conquests: once His enemies, now his loving slaves. 

VIII: The Saints do not say: ‘witness my virtue’ - rather ‘witness the glory of God,’ for God works in and through us if we allow Him.

IX: Read and imitate the lives of the Saints. Adopt a Patron Saint.

X: He who commands must first learn how to obey.

XI: God has fashioned us two ears and two eyes, but only one mouth: let us therefore hear twice as much as we shout. 

XII: Go to Confession. 

XIII: It is better to give someone than the Plague than to lie to them.

XIV: TO those who gossip, if you can afford it, buy a chicken. Pluck the feathers, and scatter them in the square, and try to get them back. Then you will know that what is released is only retrieved with great difficulty.

((Newman))XV: Say: ‘MY Lord, I believe, and know, and feel, that Thou art the Supreme Good. And, in saying so, I mean, not only supreme Goodness and Benevolence, but that Thou art the sovereign and transcendent Beautifulness. I believe that, beautiful as is Thy creation, it is mere dust and ashes, and of no account, compared with Thee, who art the infinitely more beautiful Creator.

((^))XVI: To possess Thee, O lover of souls, is happiness, and the only happiness of the immortal soul!’

XVII: Obey the Bishop as if he were the Lord, obey thy father or husband as if he were a Prophet; obey thy Emperor as if he were a Saint - but above all, and first, obey God. 
XVIII:  He is Wisdom and he is Love - how canst thou want for more?

XIX: God knows thy greatest happiness: thou dost not.

XX: All things are for the greater glory of God: He sustains and maintains all things.

((St. Philip))XXI: We must therefore give ourselves to God altogether.

XXII: Go to Confession.

((Newman))XXIII: O most tender and gentle Lord , when will my heart have a portion of Thy perfections? When will my hard and stony heart, my proud heart, my unbelieving, my impure heart, my narrow selfish heart, be melted and conformed to Thine? 

((^))XXIV: O teach me so to contemplate Thee that I may become like Thee, and to love Thee sincerely and simply as Thou hast loved me.

 

Saint Theodosius.

 

FOUR: Tobias’ Bounty

 

I: Generosity to widows is obedience to God.

II: Despise not the poor, for God is the author of them all; and beggars now live and reign with Him in heaven, whilst Emperors are sent reeling in their own iniquity to Hades. 

III: The highest good is the salvation of souls.

IV: Sainthood, for ourselves and others, is our one and only goal.

V:  If every Canonist family prayed the Rosary every day together, the entire world would be saved.

VI: Go to Confession.

((Righteous John)) VII: When God is in our heart, we are contented with everything: what has been discomfort to us becomes the greatest comfort, what was bitter to us becomes sweet, poverty becomes wealth, our hunger is satisfied, and our sorrow turns into joy!

VIII: If a man marries the spirit of the age, he shall find himself a widower in the next.
IX: When thou receivest praise from others, do not consider this as the just esteem rendered to thyself, but attribute the praise solely to the kind heart of the man who grants it to you.

X: Better is wine drunk with humility, than water drunk with pride.

((St. Cyril)) XI: Thy accumulated offences surpass not the multitude of God’s mercies; neither do thy wounds surpass the great Physician’s skill.

XII: True happiness is interior.

XIII: The most important fast is the fast of rejecting evil, holding thy tongue, banishing lust and speaking, breathing and thinking only goodness.
XIV: It is necessary to have icons of the Saints in all parts of the home, for they remind us of the glory He can raise us to, if we but say ‘Non nobis, Domine.’
XV: There is nothing so repulsive to iblees as humility: there is nothing so pleasing to God as lowliness.

XVI: If thou believest what thou wouldst choose in the Canon, and reject that which displeases thee, it is not the Canon thou believest in, but thyself.
((St. Bridget))XVII: Let he who is intelligent have all the more reason to fear and love God, for He will not have ignorance as an excuse for negligence.

XVIII: Therefore, when God shall judge thee, he will not ask which books of Malin thou hast read, how many law-books thou canst quote, or what histories thou dost know, but Love shall be the whole syllabus. 

XIX: Thou wilt catch more flies with honey than with vinegar. So it is with souls!

XX: Be kind to all men, but harsh with thyself.

XXI: Love is the only thing worth living for.

XXII: God loves us more than all the mothers and fathers in the world love their children, all siblings love one another, and all friends sacrifice for each other. For God is the author of all these loves in the first place: they are a reflection of the divine love.  

((Chrystostom))XXIII: Be ashamed when thou sin, not when thou repent.
XXIV: The Emperors have the power to raise armies: the Church has the power to forgive sins. Which, I pray thee, is greater?

 

Blessed Jude I.

 

FIVE: Sun’s Smile

 

I: Go to Confession.

((Chrystostom))II: Hades is paved with the skulls of priests.

III: God and His Saints are with you always: you need only invoke His help and their prayers.

((Aug.))IV: A man has as many masters as he has vices.

V: I have observed, friends, that we are either slaves of iblees through vice, or slaves of God. I was of the former, now I consecrate myself to the latter.

VI: Better to die than to sin.

((St. Gemma)) VII: I would gladly give every drop of my blood to please God, and to stop sinners from offending Him.

VIII: Behave in church so that people might know Whose house it is; treat the Altar so that they might know Who dwells there.

IX: Better to be least in the Skies, than the first in Hades.

X: Make, first of all, a study of the lives of the Saints.

XI: Never forget his [Kristoff’s] name, and constantly invoke it, for if his Faith was so strong, by the grace of God and his intercession, so too may it become readily renewed in us.

XII: The daemons are still terrified of Saint Kristoff to this day.

XIII: If Saint Catherine was not too good to work at the feet of beggars, why thinkest thou to be so?

XIV: If thou hast sinned, turn to Saint Catherine for aid, if thou dost not wish to be refused.

XV: If the world was run by Saint Catherine’s example, there would be no war.

XVI: Julia called herself ‘ancilla Domini’ - the handmaid of the Lord. But a less sensitive translation might better render it ‘slave’; as showing total belonging and consecration to Him, which we also ought to practice.

XVII: Saint Jude knew...To look inward, humble thyself and practice mortification is the greatest crown of glory.

XVIII: This is what makes Jude our Glorious Patriarch: not any earthly deed, but the spirit he embodies.
XIX: Humbert’s last words: ‘Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace to all men of goodwill.’

XX: We owe God our all.

XXI: I recognise only one ‘human right’ - the right for a man to be treated as if he is an immortal soul and not a means to an end, for this is our duty not only to charity, but the substance of truth itself.

XXII: People complain that we Judites say the same thing, over and over again. ‘Go to Confession, pray, give alms.’ If we say them always, it is only because they are always true!

XXIII: It is much better to trust in the Lord than to hope in Mankind.

XXIV: How much better to trust in Him than in princes!

 

Saint Emma.

 

SIX: Harren’s Folly

 

I: What shall it avail a man, if he gain the world, but lose his immortal soul? 

II: Whenever thou thinkest evil against any man, turn thy thoughts into a prayer.

III: Whenever thou wouldst take the name of our Lord our God in vain, turn it into a prayer for deliverance. 

((St. Philip))IV: An excellent way to preserve ourselves from vice is to say, each day ‘to-morrow I may die.’

V: Persevere in an holy cheerfulness.

((St. Philip))VI: He who cannot suffer a loss of honour, cannot advance in things spiritual.

((^))VII: Humbert used to say: the sanctity of a man lies in the breadth of three fingers.

VIII: Love to be unknown.

IX: There is not a time in which prayer is not useful.

X: Imagine thyself as the servant to all, and treat each one as if they were God in person.

XI: The head of the Church, contrary to popular belief, is not the Pontiff. It is God.

XII: The Prophets sinned.

XIII: Beware of those who profess to be holy warriors as a cloak for their iniquity.

XIV: If husband and wife do not sacrifice for one another, they will not grow in love. Love thy spouse more than thou lovest thyself.

XV: A shrewish woman, however beautiful, will soon make thee miserable: so it is with a brutal man. 

XVI: Therefore, in courtship, maintain a distance from one another, and consider the soul first, for as saith the Prophet: ‘The man who gives thee ten roses in courtship will give but one after he has won thy heart.’

XVII: Religion is not a subjective sensibility personal to a single man, but objective truth.

XVIII: Neither, however, should it be a matter cold and emotionless - instead, the Divine Light should conquer us and work within and through us.

((Sheen))XIX: Not an hundred men hate the Church, but thousands hate what they think the Church is.
XX: It is profitable for us to acknowledge that our forefathers were greater men than we, in order that we might we spurred onto heroic emulation.
XXI: O God, give the earthly kings and emperors the grace to remember that they are but dust, and to dust they shall return.

XXII: Confession is a fountain of mercy - an outpouring of love! I beg thee, I entreat thee, and I beseech thee at thy feet to repent now, for God alone knows the hour.

XXIII: Father Humbert ended all letters: ‘Thy humble slave in God, Father Humbert, O.S.J.’
XXIV: Never speak in thine own defence unless absolutely necessary.

 

SEVEN: Sigismund’s End

 

 

Saint Julia.

 

I: As for the enemy, fear them not. (Delivered to soldiers.)

((Cato the Elder))II: Turn this over in your minds: if you do a bad deed to obtain a temporal thing, the thing shall quickly fade and the bad shall stay with you forever. But if you obtain something through virtue, the virtue will never leave you. (Same speech as above.)

III: Go to Confession.

IV: In thy prosperity, take not away that praise which is due to Him alone.

V: Yet remember that to be yet alive is a mercy of God, and so do the same even in the darkest depths - since alive we have the chance to become Saints!

VI: Better is one hour prayed fervently, than all seven mouthed idly!

VII: Diligence is a virtue, but without Charity, it is nothing. For I have seen men slave themselves to wealth, to drink and to honour, and so make themselves miserable. Remember, therefore, for what you work! (Pointing to the Skies.)

VIII: The earth is the Lord’s, and the fullness thereof.

IX: Let no man say ‘I confess my sins before God, I have no need of priests.’ What madness is this? God instituted Confession; by rejecting it, thou makest a mockery of Him. God has desired, for reasons beyond our understanding, that this Sacrament would be His outpouring of mercy.

X: I beg of you, let me return to the Confessional! I esteem one Confession, one human soul, above all this earthly veneer! (Said he at a political meeting.)

XI: God bless you and keep you! (Said he to brigands who chucked rocks and shite at him, which he, kissing, blessed.)
XII: When there arose a certain petition, at the time of this postulancy, calling him unworthy to be a Brother of Saint Jude, Humbert signed it.

XIII: Beware of those who use ‘love’ as an excuse to tear down the law of God - as if they, in their pride, had a better idea of Love than our God, who is Charity itself. (Deus Caritas Est.)

XIV: Despise not the old; distrust not the young. For God is the author of old and young age alike!

XV: Whenever thou shouldst have a bad thought: lust or greed or unkindness, immediately think: ‘Glory be to the Father, and to Horen, and to all the Saints’ and write these words into thy heart!

XVI: Better to be the just man gaoled, than the unjust gaoler. For the unjust man is the base slave of evil; the just man is truly free from passion.

XVII: After a controversial but correct ruling: If the world be against truth, I am against the world.

XVIII: To... murderously pursue war without any attempt at a peaceful solution, surely makes men son of Krug, not of Horen. (Epistle to the Lotharingians on Peace)

XIX: For how shall we be justified in our Covenant if we behave with the same iniquity - nay, worse, than other races? (Ibid)

XX: Consider peace. Consider forgiveness. Consider sweetness. And live them.

XXI: The Lord ruleth me: I shall want for nothing. He makes me down to lie, in pastures green, he leadeth me, the quiet waters by!
XXII: Forgive them that wrong thee, and God will be inclined to forgive thee.
XXIII: Seeing a Novice help an old lady cross the street: Such is the kingdom of God on earth!

XXIV: The year is up, but not the time thou hast to do good!

[Draeris 3124]

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[thesmellypocket 1859]

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