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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.
January 26
I would like to tell you all the little cheering things that God permits to fall in our way.
January 25
Be careful never to make too many laws. If you draw the string too tight, it will break.
January 24
The garment that Catherine wore, that she handed on to us, is the mantle of justice.
January 23
Since there is very little good can be accomplished, or evil avoided, without the aid of money, we must look after it in small as well as in great matters.
January 22
Mercy not only bestows benefits, but receives us anew and pardons again and again.