"In a time of great sorrow, I remembered the heart of the Mother of Perpetual Help"

In a time of great sorrow, not knowing where to take refuge, fearing to be misled by the evil one, I remembered the heart of the Mother of Perpetual Help, and I placed myself in her care, like her child, like her property. I begged her, Our Lady of Perpetual Help, to carry me, as she carried Jesus when he was a child, and to make me become, not what I would like to become, but what she herself would like for the greatest glory of her Son, according to his will, according to what she read in his heart.

Since that time, I consider myself yours, O Mother of Perpetual Help!

Charles de Foucauld
Considerations on the feasts of the year 14/11

Charles Eugene de Foucauld de Pontbriand, Viscount de Foucauld, O.C.S.O. (September 1858 - December 1916) Charles Eugène de Foucauld was a cavalry officer in the French Army, then an explorer and geographer, and finally a Catholic priest and hermit who lived among the Tuareg in the Sahara in Algeria. He was assassinated in 1916 and is considered by the Church to be a martyr. Pope Francis announced in 2020 that he would be canonized but no date has been fixed yet because of the pandemic.