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Author: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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“It is astonishing that this remote solitude has been chosen for a novitiate and especially for an academy. All appearances are against it.”

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“October 22! Fifteen years ago today we arrived in our forest. How many graces since then.”

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“If you fast from your foolish imaginations it will be much better.”

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“The good God gave me the grace to remain calm.”

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“Sometimes I feel almost sinking under the weight, not only of present miseries, but still more, perhaps, under the apprehension of future misfortunes with which we are threatened.”

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“A Sister of Providence cannot go to heaven alone.”

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“...you know God is always disposed to hear the prayers of the poor and afflicted.”

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“How bountifully [God] provides for all our wants - I would even say for our pleasures!”

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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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“... may [God] shed on you the sweetest lights and the most abundant blessings of [God's] grace.”

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“As for myself, I have never been such a helpless creature but, too, I have never been almost fifty years old.”

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“How truly is this part of the globe named the New World. Animals of every kind are the quiet possession of the woods; and here also are the hummingbird and a multitude of other birds.”

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Quote of the day

December 21
“What a head you have! My poor child, it would be better for you to be obedient than to be guided by your own poor judgment. There is no common sense in such a way.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin