Wisdom from Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati

Saint Pier Giorgio Frassati was born April 6th, 1901 in Turin, Italy. He was from an affluent family and was known for his joyful, adventurous personality and love for the outdoors, skiing, mountain climbing, and serving the poor. He died in 1925 at the age of 24 from polio and is the patron Saint of students, Catholic youth, mountain climbers, skiers, Dominican tertiaries.

Some words of wisdom from St. Pier Giorgio Frassati to encourage you in your own Catholic faith and seeking of Chris:

“I urge you with all the strength of my soul to approach the Eucharist Table as often as possible. Feed on this Bread of the Angels from which you will draw the strength to fight inner struggles.”

“Come, and your every sacrifice will be repaid in heaven, because Jesus Christ promises that everything we do for the poor in His name, we do for Him. You do not want to deny Christ this love, He whose infinite love for humanity gave Himself to us in the sacrament of the Eucharist, as our Comforter and the Bread of Life.”

“A Catholic cannot help but be happy; sadness should be banished from their souls. Suffering is not sadness, which is the worst disease. This disease is almost always caused by atheism, but the end for which we are created guides us along life’s pathway, which may be strewn with thorns, but is not sad. It is happy even through suffering.”

“When you are totally consumed by the Eucharistic fire, then you will be able more consciously to thank God, who has called you to become part of His family. Then you will enjoy the peace that those who are happy in this world have never experienced, because true happiness, oh young people, does not consist in the pleasures of this world, or in earthly things, but in peace of conscience, which we only have if we are pure of heart and mind.”

“Jesus is with me. I have nothing to fear.”

“To live without faith, without a heritage to defend, without battling constantly for truth, is not to live but to ‘get along’; we must never just ‘get along’.”

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