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Topic: women
Prayer
For Those Who Have Mothered Us
May others find in us the shelter and the love that we have been so freely given by those who have mothered us
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“At New York, we began to experience the care of a maternal Providence which watched over us.”
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“I beg you, take today the resolution to become saints. ... Ask of God the graces you need...”
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“It embarrasses them a little to have women resist them and speak to them about the law.”
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“A woman in this country is never seen transacting the least business, religious no more than others. Eyes are opened wide at Terre Haute and everywhere when I appear to pay bills or to make purchases. Everyone is astonished.”
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“Oh, if you could understand the feelings of a mother's heart for a child which is not hers by nature but by grace - the feelings of the heart, I say for the temporal but more especially for the eternal happiness of her child - you would understand what I feel for you.”
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“Who has ever perished that entrusted herself to Mary? Take her as your model on the way.”
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“Woman in this country is only yet one-fourth of the family. I hope that, through the influence of religion and education, she will eventually become at least one half — the "better half."”
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“I believe one learns to appreciate her Mother more and more when one is so far away from her.”
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“Oh, true devotion to the Holy Virgin consists in imitating her virtues, in following her example.”
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