Feast of St Louise de Marillac (1660), who with St Vincent de Paul founded the Daughters of Charity. A novel religious community of women living outside of enclosure, devoted to apostolic service among the poor—their “masters.” Throughout history new forms of religious life...
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... have arisen in response to new challenges. It makes one wonder what new forms of religious life may be called forth from the challenges of global pandemic, climate change, migration, peace, etc.
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To paraphrase #DorothyDay, where are the saints not simply to bind up the wounds of a broken social order and wounded planet but to change the world, to fashion a spirituality and apostolate of global solidarity?
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St Louise said her sisters should never regret foregoing Mass to serve the poor. They would be going, as it were, “from God to God.” At the time of her canonization in 1934 her sisters numbered 50,000.
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No longer the feast of feast of Louise; transferred to May 9 at the request of the Vincentians/Daughters of Charity so the feast would not always fall in Lent.
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Many years ago I attended Marillac High School in suburban Chicago. The Daughters of Charity ran the school with hope and love. Sr. Leo’s classes were amazing. She taught into her 80s. Bless them all.
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