When they have toiled for a long time and have found that their hearts, which long for happiness, are not satisfied in the life of the world in work and sweat, they surrender to the Lord in their poverty, and with this now voluntary poverty, contentment, faith, and child-like love of God enter their hearts. Thus, forced like Simon the Cyrene, they carry the cross after our Lord and are overwhelmed with hitherto unknown graces.
–Saint John Nepocumene Neumann (1811-1860)
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