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  1. CW: 18+ NSFW

    Especially when there's more people at play, where other bits and bobs may get some 'Group' usage. :Blobhaj_Mlem:
    (8/16)

    #NSFW #Porn #Abby #Ksenia #GroupSex #AnalSex #Cowgirl #Missionary #Ass #AllSexSaturday

  2. Divine Jesus, listen to the prayer I offer for the one who desires to be Your missionary. Keep him safe amidst the dangers of the world. Help him to increasingly feel the nothingness and vanity of passing things and the joy of disregarding them for love of You. May his noble apostolate already begin with those around him, and may he be an apostle worthy of Your Sacred Heart…

    St. Thérèse of Lisieux
    Prayer 8 for Abbé Bellière

    How good God is, Mother, and how I admire, while giving thanks, His wonderful and merciful Providence that has done such great things for me! After Him, I thank you, Mother, for your immense charity toward me, I who deserved it less than anyone. This can only be found in souls filled with God. Now I am no longer afraid, and I feel a new fervor in my heart that will triumph. I will be a saint; I want to be a saint. Besides, to be a priest, especially a missionary, is to be a saint—and if I say saint, why not say martyr? What an ideal, Mother! Priest, apostle, and martyr! But how many graces, virtues, and holiness are required to deserve such a favor. And I have so little of these qualities—but I will attain them—my sister and I will storm heaven, and the sweet Queen of Apostles and Martyrs will welcome me into her elite battalion. And I will owe it to you, Mother, for graciously responding to my desperate plea. Thank you—I cannot express my thanks adequately. At least know that it comes from my grateful heart.

    Who have you given me as a sister? A saint, an angel, as you yourself said! I knew there were only saints among you, but I never imagined that a saint among saints would become my sister.

    Oh, Mother, you treat me like a son; allow me to see myself as such, and to come to your family to share my sorrows and joys. Let me write to you or visit to share all that happens in my life, whether happy or sad. Let me speak with you about God and draw strength and virtue from you, with all the simplicity of a child—what the world might call a “spoiled child.”

    I would also like to tell Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus how deeply her charity and dedication, drawn from the purest source of divine Love, have touched me. Since the rules of your congregation likely do not allow me to tell her directly, I ask you, Mother, to act as my interpreter with her, as you have done so successfully before. Please tell her how moved I was in thanking Divine Goodness for having chosen her as my sister to help me in the work of Jesus Christ. I read with deep emotion the inspired prayer she composed for me and prays each day. I also ask you to give her this Sacred Heart seal, which symbolizes our divine bond. It only needs her signature now, since you, Mother, and God have already signed it.

    Tell Sister Thérèse that my promise remains and will last for eternity, for in heaven, for us priests, it will be like an eternal Mass. She will always be included in my memento, as will you, Mother, and your community. From now on, I will dedicate a decade of the rosary to her each day, and I will offer a communion every month, usually on the first Friday or Sunday. For October, I will offer this communion on Sunday, on the feast of the Holy Heart of Mary, our seminary’s patronal feast. Please ask her to join me in this. It is in the Eucharist that I will give thanks for her prayers and sacrifices, offered in selflessness for my sake. But her greatest desire will be fulfilled: I will be a priest, an apostle after God’s own heart, I feel it. Together, we will save the dear souls of Christ Jesus. What a glorious procession when she enters heaven, and for all eternity.

    I do not deceive myself; the good I accomplish will be thanks to her. Just as St. Francis Xavier said that most of the souls redeemed by his zeal owed their salvation to the prayers of the Carmelites, so will it be for me.

    I will be merely the instrument, and you, my sister, will be the one converting souls, so that during this difficult year in the military, I may work for God and not return empty-handed, but with souls brought back to the true light. May the cares of the world no longer burden my heart, and may I return to Mary as pure as the angels in heaven, full of divine love and zeal for souls. Let God take care of the rest.

    Goodbye, Mother. Goodbye, my sister. Let us meet always in the Sacred Hearts. Thank you also for the golden Ave Maria.

    Your respectful and forever grateful son and brother,

    M. Barthélemy-Bellière
    Child of Mary and Joseph
    Honor Guard of the Sacred Heart
    Missionary Aspirant

    Abbé Maurice Bellière

    Letter to Mother Agnès of Jesus
    From the diocesan major seminary, Sommervieu (Calvados)
    23 October 1895

    Note: The French government’s Ministry of Culture has several photos of the former major seminary in Sommervieu, which trained countless priests for the Diocese of Bayeux.

    Translation from the French text is the blogger’s own work product and may not be reproduced without permission.

    Featured image: Copyright Natalie Ewert (All rights reserved), used by permission.

    https://carmelitequotes.blog/2024/10/22/belliere-23oc95/

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