St. Felix of Cantalicio, Capuchin

Butler’s Lives of The Saints 1926.

Source: Benedict_Ven

St Felix, though little in the eyes of the world and in his own, was great before God. The poverty of a Lazarus, abandoned by all, but suffering with patience, resignation, and humility, is something far more glorious and more desirable than the glittering sceptres.

God will condemn the renowned exploits of those false divinities of the earth who have filled the world with the sound of their name; but he crowns the least desire of a humble heart employed in loving Him.

A person who lives in the world is bound to make all his actions perfect sacrifices to God, and purity of intention converts the works of any secular calling into the works of God. But this can only be formed and maintained in a life in which a constant spirit of piety animates the soul, and a considerable time is reserved for exercises of interior devotion.

Let no man take sanctuary in purity of intention who suffers the works of his secular profession much less company of pleasures, to engross his soul, and entirely to usurp his time.

A life of business, and still more a life of pleasure, entangle and ensnare the mind, and leave it in a peculiar relish which is incompatible with pure heavenly desires, and a value for those maxims of the gospel wherein true heavenly wisdom consists, or with a serious constant application to the mortification of self-love and the passions.