ST. ELIZABETH ANN SETON
Try to consider the cross with a true spirit, and open your whole heart and soul freely to receive all the pains, contradictions, humiliations, and trials which our Lord may send, or permit to come to you. Accept them with love, and bear them for his sake.

We need not go to church to make this communion of suffering, our Saviour comes to find us wherever we may be… We are never strong enough to bear our cross, it is the cross which carries us, nor so weak as to be unable to bear it since the weakest become strong by its virtue.

ST. VINCENT DE PAUL
Do not limit your vision any longer to yourself, but see the Lord around you and in you, ready to put His hand to the work as soon as you ask for His help. You will see that all will go well.

Let us, my sisters, cherish the poor as our masters, since Our Lord is in them and they in Our Lord.

ST. LOUISE DE MARILLAC
…to choose the life of Jesus Crucified as the model for our lives so that His Resurrection may be a means of glory for us in eternity.

BLESSED ROSALIE RENDU
If you want someone to love you, you must be the first to love; and if you have nothing to give, give yourself.

There is something that is choking me and takes away my appetite. It is the thought that so many families lack bread.