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If faults are committed…

“If faults are committed in your house, examine seriously in the presence of God whether you are not yourself the cause of them.”

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Saint Mother Theodore Guerin moment: a mother’s letter to new postulants

“Long ago we offered prayers for you, for your generous mother. When you write to her tell her that I shall try to be a mother to you, that I love you already as my beloved child, and that all the Sisters are anxiously waiting to have you among them,” writes Saint Mother Theodore to soon-to-arrive postulants.

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Talk about money

But again I must talk about money. When will the day come that we shall be able to be occupied only with God?

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Language of the heart

I can express it only to God, Who understands the language of the heart.

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God’s Holy Will

Let us adore the designs of this good Master and be resigned to His Holy Will.

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Be humble …

Pray, be humble, be charitable, and God’s blessing will be with you.

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Guard every word …

Carefully guard every word; watch over yourselves that nothing imprudent may escape you and thus give the ill-disposed a reason for their complaints.

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Showing what you can do

There is no way of repairing what you have done but by showing … what you can do.

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That [melancholy] is a bad disease….

That [melancholy] is a bad disease. One has to bear with such persons and suffer; but they themselves more than anyone else.

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I feel as stupid as a…

I feel as stupid as a turkey.

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It is very true that our…

It is very true that our whole life is one of sacrifice. Who could doubt this?

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Saint Mother Theodore Guerin founded the Sisters of Providence of Saint Mary-of-the-Woods and Saint Mary-of-the-Woods College in 1840. She was born in France in 1798 and died in the United States in 1856, having lived the last 16 years of her life as a missionary teacher and healer in the Indiana wilderness. A strong leader and an even stronger woman of faith, Saint Mother Theodore and her many words of wisdom shared in her journals and letters continue to inspire people of today.