Christ merited grace for us to be detached from everything at whatever cost to ourselves. MY GRACE IS SUFFICIENT FOR YOU! Forgive others as He forgives from the Cross. Christ felt the actual pain of the loss of God that we may never feel it. Patience . . . . . Silence. . . . […]
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By faith and hope and charity we see the heavens open and our conversation is in heaven. By FAITH, we see God; by HOPE, we trust in Him and long for Him; by LOVE, we embrace Him. Lord, by the merits of Your Passion, increase our faith, strengthen our hope, inflame our love, until faith […]
The work of sanctity is not a commercial enterprise. God has already begun this work in you by His Grace. What you are worth, He sees. Find in all things a memorial of Him; look for His footprints along the way. Is it not enough to put all your strength into the effort of submission, […]
Peace, which is not the result of struggle, will soon vanish. Mother Patricia O’Connor, CDS Founding Superior, Friend, and Guide
+Dear Lord, Silence is always more eloquent than speech because it is far deeper and more complete. Silence during this Holy Week is the best way to listen to You, to leave room for You, not to hinder Your action and to allow You to fashion me according to Your Divine Plan. Silence is not […]
Forgiveness is the strongest bond of friendship, and he whom God has pardoned most is most closely united with Him. Mother Patricia O’Connor, CDS Founding Superior, Friend, and Guide
“Master, where do You live?” “Come and see,” He answers, and bids us look into ourselves, into our own souls. There He has chosen His lodging — there amid ambitions, unholy desires — there in the heart of our warped nature, He dwells in us. Mother Patricia O’Connor, CDS Founding Superior, Friend, and Guide
Pray for the grace of grateful recognition. This is different from the feelings of contrition that we sometimes try to wring from a withered heart. A truly contrite heart is a heart crushed, not by remorse, but by Love; and it is precisely because a contrite heart is moved by love that it can change […]
Our journey on this earth is an apprenticeship of life, and the time of exile is the school. A change of heart begins in the recognition that we have been wanting in love toward God and toward our neighbors. Reconciliation is not a question simply of admitting one’s infidelities to Grace; it is a question […]
Forgiveness is the self-giving that reaches out beyond all barriers and limitations. The possibility of changing one’s ways is always before us, and it is always possible to reconcile differences. This is the mediation of LOVE to which we are all called. Mother Patricia O’Connor, C.D.S. Founding Superior, Friend and Guide