God gives us six days for work and reserves the seventh for His
worship. Is He too demanding, He to whom all time belongs,
who does not owe us even one hour! How ungrateful, how fa-
tally careless, to deny Him His day, to violate it by stingy
work, to lose it by distancing ourselves from the holy services,
to defile it by sinful or dangerous amusements! In this way,
faith is extinguished, humanity degrades itself like a beast of
burden, society devotes itself to all kinds of misfortunes.
If we still love God and our country, let us stop the wrath of
heaven by forming a holy crusade, under the banner of Mary,
for the restoration of the Lord’s Day.
O Protectress of Christendom, give her back the happy times when
Sunday was worthily sanctified. I deplore having so far been too
insensitive to the forgetfulness of this sacred day. From now on, I want
to make sure that it is respected around me and that I myself spend it
in prayer, good reading and holy works.
