Lenten Campaign 2025
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St. Luigi Orione is known for his enormous work in favor of people with illnesses and disabilities.
From a young age he worked to educate children and young people without financial resources and founded the Little Work of Divine Providence.
Today, there are many works that perpetuate his sensitivity and help for the most vulnerable in different parts of the world.
His face and his words allow us to intuit how God looks upon human beings. Here is a gallery with some of them:
We must be saints…
“Do good to everyone always, and never harm anyone.”
“Are these new times? Cast out fears. Let’s not doubt. Let’s launch ourselves into the new ways of doing things, new methods… We must not become fossilized: it’s enough if we can manage to sow, it’s enough if we can plow Jesus Christ into society, and make it fertile with Christ.”
“We must be saints, but not such that our holiness belongs only to the devotion of the faithful or remains only in the Church. It should transcend, and project over society such splendor of light, such life of love of God and of humanity, that rather than being saints of the Church, we are saints of the people and of social salvation.”
“Only charity will save the world.”
“The best act of charity that you can do for souls is to give Jesus to them. And the sweetest consolation for Jesus is when we bring him a soul.”
“At the doors of the Little Cottolengo [the name of St. Orione’s charitable shelters, editor’s note] they will not ask what your name is or what you believe, but what your suffering is.”
“Without Prayer nothing good is done. God’s works are done with our hands joined, and on our knees. Even when we run, we must remain spiritually kneeling before Him.”
“Hail Mary, and onwards!”
He died on March 12, 1940, in San Remo, crying out, “Jesus! Jesus! I’m on my way.”
