August 18
They shall be willing on all occasions to help and assist one another, bearing with patience and charity each other's defects, weaknesses, and imperfections.
August 01
Sadness lessens the value of works performed in God’s name, for God loves a cheerful giver.
July 31
We savour the stories of the founding women…to search for wisdom...to imagine how their creativity and courage might open the future to us.
July 30
When we grow old we will walk in the garden and laugh at the hardships of today.
July 29
We must bear all and work while we are young…
July 28
We should praise and bless the hand that wounds us.
July 27
We have to make decisions Catherine never faced but for which she has empowered us.
July 26
Our ministry is God’s word in action.
July 25
She always remembered that if there were ten thousand rules to be observed, the greatest of these is charity.
July 24
We rest at ease in the arms of a kind providence.
July 23
Catherine has been drawing her far-flung Mercy family home – home to the original source of inspiration and home to one another.
July 22
Ministers of suffering are delightfully different people…with a vision of Heaven in their hearts and in their eyes.
July 21
Catherine stands there, midway between vulnerability and possibility.
July 20
All goes well when you can work together in harmony.
July 19
Speak as your mind directs and always act with more courage when the "mammon of unrighteousness" is in question.
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.