Quote Of The Day

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.

The starting point for all conversion is embracing the present reality.

We should be watchful over our countenance and our whole comportment, that it may be always pleasing and never gloomy or harsh.

Let us rejoice when good is done, no matter by whom it is accomplished.

They are doing the best they can; they mean well; we shall all be perfect when we go to Heaven.

A person expands like a delicate flower to the touch of sympathy, kindness and understanding.

A community in which this universal charity reigns is ... capable of surmounting all difficulties.

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.

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.

The rescue of a newly-born infant during the epidemic is an example of Catherine’s response in love to a perceived need.

Our sense of having been chosen for the works of liberation…is rich and dynamic.

Life is very short! What folly, then, to waste any of its precious hours on trifles.

We should labour all day like the poor, and have our rest and recreation after our work was finished.

Catherine’s spirituality was centred on the mercy of God…prayer in action…action in prayer.

She used to conclude that we are much better able to endure hardships in God's service than we usually imagine.

Every place has its own particular ideas and feelings which must be yielded to when possible.