What is fidelity?

Ven. Louis Brisson, to be beatified September 22, 2012, preached a Conference to his Oblate Confreres on this virtue.

He said,  “ My friends, our spirit is eminently a spirit of fidelity to God.

Let’s be faithful, let’s be serious people, careful about all our little practices. Your good Angels will gather all them in; some day you will be able to put your hand on them when you are confronted with the job of bringing a stray sheep back to the right road. You will have the grace to do it.

It’s the little things that lead up to the big things- even to martyrdom- because they strengthen the soul and develop courage.

What brings this all about is the practice of fidelity, the generous acceptance of the trials, the troubles, the labors the difficulties we meet in our mutual relationships. This is everything, because, by doing this, you live with God and God lives with you.”

Source: Ven Louis Brisson, Conference of Dec 8, 1899