Almighty and merciful God, who didst wonderfully endue Saint John Vianney with pastoral zeal and a continual desire for prayer and repentance: grant, we beseech thee, that by his example and intercession; we may win the souls of our brethren for Christ and with them attain glory everlasting: through Jesus Christ thy Son our Lord, who liveth and reigneth with thee, in the unity of the Holy Ghost, ever one God, world without end. Amen.

I may be wrong but I think nothing needs so much effort as prayer to God. If anyone wants to pray, the demons try to interrupt the prayer, for they know that prayer is the only thing that hinders them. All the other efforts in a religious life, whether they are made vehemently or gently, have room for a measure of rest. But we need to pray till our dying breath. That is the great struggle. ~Sr. Benedicta Ward, SLG; The Desert Fathers: Sayings of the Early Christian Monks

Thanks go to Fr. Christopher George Phillips, pastor of Our lady of the Atonement Parish in San Antonio, Texas for this brief blogpost on the Portiuncula Indulgence.