One of the favorite Scripture verses of St. Marcellin, is this one from Psalm 127: 1, "Unless the Lord Build the House, in vain to do the builders labor." He reminded the brothers constantly that their work would be in vain if it were not connected to the root, the source of all energy and good, Jesus Christ. Blessed John Henry Newman wrote that our talents, intelligence, profession bear lasting fruit only if the sap of this vine flows through these gifts and lifts them to a supernatural level. "Idle is our labor, worthless is our toil, ashes is our fruit, corruption is our reward, unless we begin the foundation of this great undertaking ( the building of a university...or we could expand it to include any of our projects) in faith and prayer, and sanctify it by purity of life."
A simple way to bring our daily, routine tasks to a deeper level, is to pray the familiar words, "So help me, God." One second's worth of consciousness, one quick prayer, and the "house" we are attempting to build becomes the work of God.
Bro. Rene
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