October 18
Close to God, all is peace and contentment.
February 19
You have great reason to rejoice and return many thanks to God for blessing your humble efforts.
February 18
The compass ... goes round its circle without stirring from its centre. Now our centre is God from whom all our actions should spring as from their source.
February 17
After this dream of life, we shall be together in Heaven.
February 16
Her idealism led her to try and alleviate human need of every kind; her realism conviced her that the Spiritual and Corporal Works of Mercy are a means of closer union with God.
February 15
The starting point for all conversion is embracing the present reality.
February 14
We should be watchful over our countenance and our whole comportment, that it may be always pleasing and never gloomy or harsh.
February 13
Let us rejoice when good is done, no matter by whom it is accomplished.
February 12
They are doing the best they can; they mean well; we shall all be perfect when we go to Heaven.
February 11
A person expands like a delicate flower to the touch of sympathy, kindness and understanding.
February 10
A community in which this universal charity reigns is ... capable of surmounting all difficulties.
February 09
There has been a most marked Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance or judgment has not impeded - and it is here we can most clearly see the designs of God.
February 08
We are not the source of the ardent shape we hope to become, only the ready tinder: poor, flickering, utterly dependent on God’s designing fire.
February 07
The rescue of a newly-born infant during the epidemic is an example of Catherine’s response in love to a perceived need.
February 06
Our sense of having been chosen for the works of liberation…is rich and dynamic.
February 05
Life is very short! What folly, then, to waste any of its precious hours on trifles.
February 04
We should labour all day like the poor, and have our rest and recreation after our work was finished.