We should be cordial and affable with the poor, and with persons in humble circumstances. We should not treat them in a supercilious manner. Haughtiness makes them revolt. On the contrary, when we are affable with them, they become more docile and derive more benefit from the advice they receive.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 24 Let not confusion for thy fault overwhelm thee with despair, as if there were no longer a remedy.--ST. CATHERINE OF SIENA. 25 As all our wickedness consists in turning away from our Creator, so all our goodness consists in uniting ourselves with Him.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 26 That which we suffer in the accomplishment of a good work, merits for us the necessary graces to insure its success.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 27 We ought to have a special devotion to those saints who excelled in humility, particularly to the Blessed Virgin Mary, who declares that the Lord regarded her on account of her humility.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 28 He who wishes to find Jesus should seek Him, not in the delights and pleasures of the world, but in mortification of the senses.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 29 Let us not despise, judge, or condemn any one but ourselves; then our cross will bloom and bear fruit.--VEN. JOHN TAULER. 30 It is rarely that we fall into error if we are humble and trust to the wisdom of others, in preference to our own judgment.--VEN. LOUIS DE BLOIS. 31 The best of all prayers is that in which we ask that God's holy will be accomplished, both in ourselves and in others.--VEN. LOUIS DE BLOIS. November 1 WE SHOULD honor God in His saints, and beseech Him to make us partakers of the graces He poured so abundantly upon them.--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 2 We may have a confident hope of our salvation when we apply ourselves to relieve the souls in purgatory, so afflicted and so dear to God.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 3 The example of the saints is proposed to every one, so that the great actions shown us may encourage us to undertake smaller things.--VEN. LOUIS DE GRANADA. 4 Let us read the lives of the saints; let us consider the penances which they performed, and blush to be so effeminate and so fearful of mortifying our flesh.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 5 The greatest pain which the holy souls suffer in purgatory proceeds from their desire to possess God. This suffering especially afflicts those who in life had but a feeble desire of heaven.--ST. ALPHONSUS. 6 Death is welcome to one who has always feared God and faithfully served Him.--ST. TERESA. 7 True humility consists in being content with all that God is pleased to ordain for us, believing ourselves unworthy to be called His servants.-- ST. TERESA. 8 The best preparation for death is a perfect resignation to the will of God, after the example of Jesus Christ, who, in His prayer in Gethsemani prepared Himself with these words, "Father, not as I will, but as Thou wilt."--ST. VINCENT DE PAUL. 9 The errors of others should serve to keep us from adding any of our own to them.--ST. IGNATIUS.