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Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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Yes, God truly makes use of…

Yes, God truly makes use of the least likely instruments to procure [God’s] glory.

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…for what [God] asks of us…

…for what [God] asks of us is only the heart.

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I must tell you with simplicity,…

I must tell you with simplicity, my good Father, that this time I feel myself overwhelmed…

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Sister St. Francis Xavier is necessary…

Sister St. Francis Xavier is necessary for my existence. She is my oldest daughter, the friend of my soul, which she reads as I do hers. I have need of her advice, of her example. I will even say of her little scoldings.

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If all but understood the power…

If all but understood the power of that one word charity; how it unites and binds and welds together.

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Happy, ah, thrice happy are they…

Happy, ah, thrice happy are they who can look forward to the eternal future with calm and confidence, who can throw themselves with love into the bosom of God, the center of felicity!

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Never scold nor punish more than…

Never scold nor punish more than the fault deserves. Children naturally love justice even when it punishes them.

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Obtain for me that my death…

Obtain for me that my death may not be an unprovided one and that I may always be ready to say to the Lord when he calls, “My God, here I am.”

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O good Cross, I will love…

O good Cross, I will love thee with all my heart!

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Who has ever perished that entrusted…

Who has ever perished that entrusted herself to Mary? Take her as your model on the way.

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It is our unwillingness to go…

It is our unwillingness to go further than the surface that makes us so unwilling to bear with the imperfections of our neighbor.

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… yet there is no assurance…

… yet there is no assurance for the future of the Sisters and of the children other than that Divine Providence takes care of the birds of the air and the grass of the field.

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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.