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Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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To pray for you is a…

To pray for you is a necessity for me, but I am so occupied with what is called business that my prayers are very poor, very miserable.

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You yourselves know well, when you…

You yourselves know well, when you ardently desire to do something, though very fatiguing, nothing appears too difficult.

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Prayers are never lost

Prayers are never lost.

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It is not enough to acknowledge…

It is not enough to acknowledge our faults; we must correct them.

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All our sufficiency is from God….

All our sufficiency is from God. Who says: “Without me, you can do nothing.”

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She encouraged me by her example…

She encouraged me by her example and good counsels; she reproved me for my faults with a charity and courage which my brusqueness and my haughty and imperious character had never discouraged; in a word, she was everything to me.

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Particularly I admire two virtues rare…

Particularly I admire two virtues rare in our days: a profound humility and immense charity.

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Oh, how happy you would be…

Oh, how happy you would be if you could see all the good that your Daughters of the Woods are doing and the good spirit which animates them.

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I think that despite her poor…

I think that despite her poor health she will accomplish much good.

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Show our students how sweetly tender…

Show our students how sweetly tender is the Providence of God…

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In our union with you will…

In our union with you will be our strength, and even, I may say, the source of our success.

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If you could have trees planted…

If you could have trees planted around the edge of your lot, I think it would be well.

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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.