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December 12
It began with 2, Sister Doyle and I.
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.
July 07
Every Mercy Sister would do well to remember what impelled our first missionaries to cast the fire for the first kindling and made the Sisters "mobilise" their efforts to "give God
July 06
God knows I would rather be cold and hungry than the poor in Kingstown or elsewhere should be deprived of any consolation in our power to afford.
July 05
The union which exists among you will draw down the favour and blessing of Heaven.
July 04
Let us never think any one individual necessary for carrying on the work of God…we can all be done without.
July 03
One has to try to espouse Catherine's two-fold commitment to trust and urgency: "While we place all our confidence in God - we must act as if all depended on our exertion".