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July 27
We have to make decisions Catherine never faced but for which she has empowered us.
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".
July 02
At times of crisis, Mercy people have realigned and dreamt of new ways of implementing the spirit and vision – indeed – taken the greatest risks.
July 01
The choice for a life in union with Christ is a choice for a life within Christ’s church.
June 30
One question proposed with simplicity is often the occasion of many instructions.
June 29
Catherine was energised by friendship, that choicest of all human gifts.
June 28
Heaven’s the prize, so why should one be anxious? God’s eyes are ever towards us.
June 27
Confidence in God causes us to hope for everything from His paternal goodness.
June 26
It is well for us that God is all-merciful.
June 25
The matter which causes the greatest interior upheaval is the very thing which, if properly used, will bring you nearer to God.