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Author: Saint Mother Theodore Guerin

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“Everything in us seemed to change except charity, which united us to God.”

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“The heart understands the heart. As yours was speaking in your letter, mine understood its language.”

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“I fully enter into your difficulties, this is the same as telling you that I suffer with you. Need I tell you that I pray for you?”

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“But if it is necessary to be just, it is necessary above all to be kind...”

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“You do well to pray for me. Ask for me especially the grace of a good death.”

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“Yes above all things; justice, justice. If any preferences may be shown let it be to the poorest or most abandoned.”

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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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“Mon Dieu! How happy I should be if I could see you become some day what you ought to be!”

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“As to our garden and yard, we have all the woods. And the wilderness is our only cloister, for our house is like an oak tree planted therein.”

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“Be humble, like your Mother [Mary], devoted like her to the interests of God and your neighbor...”

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“I have debts at Paris and I do not know how to pay them. However, I am not too much discouraged. I see in all this the will of God, and I submit to it.”

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“You know ... that the good God always makes use of nothing in order to accomplish something.”

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Quote of the day

October 5
World Teacher's Day
“Love the children first, and then teach them.”
– Saint Mother Theodore Guerin