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[Nishant Xavier]

This is how the Saints spoke about Souls: "St. Anthony Mary Claret (1808-1870): "Another thing that spurs me on to preach ceaselessly is the thought of the multitude of souls which fall into the depths of Hell, who die in mortal sin, condemned forever and ever... if you were to see a blind man about to fall into a pit or over a precipice, would you not warn him? Behold, I do the same..." "How often I pray with St. Catherine of Siena: O my God, grant me a place by the gates of Hell, that I may stop those who enter there, saying: "Where are you going, unhappy one? Back, go back! Make a good confession. Save your soul. Don't come here to be lost for all eternity!" St. Anthony resolved never to waste a moment of time, and during his 35 years as a priest, he wrote 144 books and preached some 25,000 sermons. On one trip, besides traveling, he preached 205 sermons in 48 days and 12 in one day.

The motivating force that dominated St. John Bosco's (1815-1888) life is found in a phrase that is typically his: "Give me souls, you take the rest." "There is nothing more holy in this world than to work for the good of souls, for whose salvation Jesus Christ poured out the last drops of His Blood." In his writings and conferences, he consistently pointed out that: "Man is successful in this world if he saves his soul and is very knowledgeable if he knows the science of salvation; but he is a total failure if he loses his soul and knows nothing if he is ignorant of those things that can assure him of eternal salvation." https://olrl.org/misc/winsouls.shtml