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February 28
Let those whom Jesus Christ has graciously permitted to assist him in the Persons of his suffering poor have their hearts animated with gratitude and love.
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.
February 03
Catherine’s spirituality was centred on the mercy of God…prayer in action…action in prayer.
February 02
She used to conclude that we are much better able to endure hardships in God's service than we usually imagine.
February 01
Every place has its own particular ideas and feelings which must be yielded to when possible.
January 31
Mercy is understood as a gratuitous process of giving and forgiving.
January 30
See how quietly the great God does all His mighty works. Darkness is spread over us at night and light returns in the morning, and there is no noise of closing shutters or drawing
January 29
We will endeavour to make Christ the only return He demands of us - by giving Him our whole heart - fashioned on His own model.
January 28
It is in silence, and in listening to the silence, that we begin to get insight into the questions.
January 27
God grant that we may never have to refuse the poor…that I could never do.