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By our little acts of charity practiced in the shade we convert souls far away, we help missionaries, we win for them abundant alms and by that means build actual dwellings spiritual and material for our Eucharistic Lord.

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the storm thunders at my heart I find it difficult to believe in the existence of anything except the clouds which limit my horizon.
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