Saturday, September 17, 2011

Diary entry of Angelo Roncalli, "Prisoner of the Vatican"

Retreat, 8-13 December, 1947, Paris, Calamart, at Villas Manresa, the House of the Jesuit Fathers

Thoughts and resolutions

(1) This is the end of my third year as Nuncio of France.  The sense of my unworthiness keeps me good company:  it makes me put all my trust in God. The fact that I live constantly under obedience gives me courage and banishes all fear. The Lord has pledged himself to help me.

I bless him and thank him: 'his praise shall always be in my mouth'.

Pope John XXIII   "Journal of a Soul"   Page 266   Written during his 67th year.

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