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December 17
Submission to the inevitable is requisite for all who are willing to live in peace with mystery.
July 23
Catherine has been drawing her far-flung Mercy family home – home to the original source of inspiration and home to one another.
July 22
Ministers of suffering are delightfully different people…with a vision of Heaven in their hearts and in their eyes.
July 21
Catherine stands there, midway between vulnerability and possibility.
July 20
All goes well when you can work together in harmony.
July 19
Speak as your mind directs and always act with more courage when the "mammon of unrighteousness" is in question.
July 18
She thought the world would be a happy place if people’s manners were as good as their hearts.
July 17
To be truly merciful, we must sometimes become defenceless, powerless, like the poor we serve.
July 16
To instruct is an easy matter, but to educate requires ingenuity, energy and perseverance without end.
July 15
Catherine’s acute awareness of contemporary needs made her a catalyst in an uncaring society.
July 14
The circle of mercy is timeless, it is Spirit of Life itself.
July 13
Try to meet all with peace and ease.
July 12
The constant interchange of prayer and service nourish one another.
July 11
Without passion nothing happens. Without compassion, the wrong things happen.
July 10
That the mercy vision within the broader Christian context has survived for 160 years says something to me of its universality.
July 09
Mother Catherine's insistence on and provision of good education for girls, middle-class as well as poor children, was a direct challenge to the injustices of her time.
July 08
The task of prophets is, in Catherine’s words, to speak what their mind/heart direct and act courageously.