“One sigh of love is of more value than the whole world…”
SOME ANECDOTES FROM THE LIFE OF FR. PAUL OF MOLL (d. Feb 24, 1896)
Reader of Souls
In the confessional, Father Paul said to a servant girl from Thielt at the very beginning, ‘I know everything that you are going to confess, but, nevertheless, you have to tell it yourself.’
‘… shew thyself to the priest.’ (Mt. 8:4)
God Greatly Rewards Every Act of Love
Very early one morning, Father Paul, seeing a peasant who had come a long distance through a terrific snowstorm, to hear Mass in the church at Steenbrugge, said to him: ‘If you could see the immense merits which your courage has procured for you, you would be astonished, and you might yet increase them in a measure incredible, by saying: All for the love of Jesus.’
The Priest Acts ‘in persona Christi‘
As an ecstatic was making her confession to Father Paul, he interrupted her, saying, ‘Do you not see our Lord?’
‘No.’
‘But I see Him: He is at your side.’
The Power of a Just Soul’s Prayer
About the year 1888, Father Paul said to a person at Watervliet that God had decided to punish the whole world with terrible chastisements; but that finally He had spared mankind, in answer to the prayers and penances of one single religious. Father Paul did not tell the name of this religious.’
[The same is said of St. Vincent Ferrer.]
An Affectionate Blessing from the Mother of God
“One evening, in 1895, after our spiritual exercises, I was walking through the cloister in the abbey, reciting, according to my custom, three Hail Marys in honor of Our Lady to obtain her maternal blessing, when all at once I saw this good Mother clothed in a robe of dazzling white. She approached and made a little cross with her thumb on my forehead. The emotion which I felt is indescribable, and if the apparition had lasted two minutes longer, Father Paul would be no more of this world; for I would not have been able to support this brilliancy any longer.” – Fr. Paul of Moll, speaking to a person of Thielt (after which the saintly priest “fell into an ecstasy which lasted about five minutes.”)
SOME SAYINGS OF FR. PAUL OF MOLL
Mary: Living Tabernacle the Word
“From the time of the Ascension of Our Lord, the most Blessed Virgin communicated every day, and by a special privilege, the Host remained intact within her up to the moment of the next Communion, so that Mary always guarded, in her interior, the Humanity and Divinity of Jesus Christ, and thus was able to keep up a continual conversation with her Divine Son.”
[These words agree with the revelations of St. Veronica Giuliani and Bl. Mary Magdalen Martinengo]
The Body of St. Joseph
“In an ecstasy, a saint has seen the body of St. Joseph preserved intact in a tomb, the site of which is yet unknown. The more the glorious Spouse of the most Blessed Virgin is honored, the sooner will the finding of his body take place, which will be a day of great joy for the Church.”
Saints are Always in the Making
“At the time when the Church is most persecuted, God raises up in the world the greatest number of saints.”
The Three Masses of Christmas
“During the consecration of the three Masses on Christmas I obtain everything I asked for.”
SOME EXCERPTS FROM THE LETTERS OF FR. PAUL OF MOLL
God is Infinitely Lovable
“God being infinite love, we can always love Him more and more.”
God is Not Outdone in Generosity
“He pays us back in tenfold love, the love which we have for Him.”
Humility: The Key to True Greatness
“Humility renders men great in the eyes of God.”
Do All for the Love and Glory of God
“Before eating, sleeping, opening or closing a door, or any other action, always have the intention of doing all for the love of Jesus. In this way you will continually reap a rich harvest for Heaven.”
‘Therefore, whether you eat or drink, or whatsoever else you do, do all to the glory of God.’ (1 Cor. 10:31)
Source: ‘Father Paul of Moll: A Flemish Benedictine and Wonderworker of the Nineteenth Century, 1824 – 1896,’ by Edward Van Speybrouck (2nd ed., Benedictine Convent, Clyde, MO, 1914)
Littlest Souls 
Dear Millie,
You are welcome! Thank you so, so much for your extremely kind offering! In return, I have made the very same offering for you. I will especially remember your kindness during my moments of Adoration today.
+’… in laudem gloriae gratiae suae’
Thank you, thank so much, for resuming sending us your dearly awaited and dearly cherished.
All that I offer up (masses adorations rosaries chaplets) are in the hands of our Blessed Mother, and you are permanently in these.
Thank you always,
Millie Maddela