5th Sunday of Lent

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Thus says the Lord GOD:
O my people, I will open your graves
and have you rise from them,
and bring you back to the land of Israel.
Then you shall know that I am the LORD,
when I open your graves and have you rise from them,
O my people!
I will put my spirit in you that you may live,
and I will settle you upon your land;
thus you shall know that I am the LORD.
I have promised, and I will do it, says the LORD.

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    DON BOSCO DAY BY DAY
    MARCH 22

    HEAVENLY PEACE

    In a discourse read at a solemn commemoration of Don Bosco on June 24, 1903, Atty. Charles Bianchettti declared on a visit to his room.

    Don Bosco sat at a plain desk which had drawers and small pigeonholes. Letters and papers were bundled in heaps before him, increasing with each new mail delivery. But Don Bosco was not concerned with that; he pushed the piles aside. It was his belief that even little things should be done unhurriedly, well without distractions. He gave the appearance of having very little or nothing else to do.

    He carried on with each caller as if he had no one else to listen to that morning. Like St. Francis of Sales he held that haste makes waste. Never the first to end a conversation, he would not even hint at shortening it. Rather, if a visitor feared he had been indiscreet and wanted to leave, Don Bosco would graciously beg him to stay a bit longer. At times, a considerate visitor would remind him that others were waiting. “Let them be patient, “he would reply. “I am like the barber who tells his customers, ‘I’ll be with you in a moment, ‘and then takes his time with his job as though no one were waiting. After all, customers must get their money’s worth! It wouldn’t be fair for a barber to rush and chop away at his customers!”

    In Don Bosco simplicity went hand in hand with a strong sense of duty. He would not end an interview until he had adequately discussed a problem. His conversation was most delightful, generously interspersed with timely, humorous anecdotes and incidents. His pleasantries made an incisive, vivid impression and were always appropriate. So gracious was his manner that no one could reproach him for being less than gentlemanly and discreet. “Even when pulling teeth,” he used to remark, “one must be tactful, or else…” (BM VII, 14-15)

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