A quote today from Frances Warde, our American foundress:
My God, I will look to you confidently for grace.
The news today: fog a cause for deaths of two truck drivers, death of Sister, delays at airports due to fog, deadlines loom for... "My God,I look confidently to you for grace." I look to you for the strength to live this day as you would want me to live it. I look to you in my time of need to guide me in the right words to say and the right actions to take.
As I reflect on the life of Frances Warde, She had need to pray this simple prayer often. She was a woman who did much, going where no religious had gone before. She was bold: she was a woman of foresight. In her day she established around 100 foundations ans missions. what a woman- a pioneer woman, a woman builder. I'm sure it was not easy at times to know if what she were doing was what God wanted. Yet she looked to God with confidence.
We, too can have that confidence if we but place our day, in God's hands. What do you need today to place in God's hands?
Today we celebrate the foundation of the Sisters of Mercy to Pittsburgh from Carlow, Ireland, the first foundation in the United States in 1843!
www.sistersofmercy.org
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