Kathryn Lopez
1. Today’s the feast day of Mother Cabrini.
Oh, happy the soul who lives in the true love of Christ! — #MotherCabrini
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) November 13, 2015
2. I’m so grateful for her — and her holy shrine in New York where her earthly remains rest. This is a small thank you tracing some connections to Pope Francis today.
3. About her from her sisters.
4.
Statue of today's St Frances Xavier Cabrini in the Crypt @MarysShrine. May she pray for immigrants & protect them
https://t.co/d1yH1oLWek
— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) November 13, 2015
5.
"I will go anywhere and do anything in order to communicate the love of Jesus…"
St. Frances Xavier Cabrini pic.twitter.com/pbXOk9FSOK
— Ave Maria Press (@avemariapress) November 13, 2015
6. From “The Faithful Traveler” on her travels.
Sounds like the peripheries!
7. From Venerable Pius XII’s homily when he canonized her:
Inspired by the grace of God, we join the saints in honoring the holy virgin Frances Xavier Cabrini. She was a humble woman who became outstanding not because she was famous, or rich or powerful, but because she lived a virtuous life. From the tender years of her youth, she kept her innocence as white as a lily and preserved it carefully with the thorns of penitence; as the years progressed, she was moved by a certain instinct and a supernatural zeal to dedicate her whole life to the service and greater glory of God.
She welcomed delinquent youths into safe homes and taught them to live upright and holy lives. She consoled those who were in prison and recalled to them the hope of eternal life. She encouraged prisoners to reform themselves and to live honest lives.
She comforted the sick and the infirm in the hospitals and diligently cared for them. She extended a friendly and helping hand especially to immigrants and offered them necessary shelter and relief, for having left their homeland behind, they were wandering about in a foreign land with no place to turn for help. Because of their condition she saw that they were in danger of deserting the practice of Christian virtues and their Catholic faith.
Where did she acquire all that strength and the inexhaustible energy by which she was able to perform so many good works and to surmount so many difficulties involving material things, travel and men?
Undoubtedly she accomplished all this through the faith which was always so vibrant and alive in her heart; through the divine love which burned within her; and, finally, through constant prayer by which she was so closely united with God from whom she humbly asked and obtained whatever her human weakness could not obtain.
In the face of the endless cares and anxieties of life, she never let anything turn her aside from striving and aiming to please God and to work for his glory for which nothing, aided by God’s grace, seemed too laborious, or difficult, or beyond human strength.
8.
I found #MotherCabrini in St. Louis on her feast day today! #PrayforUs pic.twitter.com/ZntnSWXpG5
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) November 13, 2015
#MotherCabrini pray for us — especially for anyone who feels alone and a stranger pic.twitter.com/GOpTqHj5m8
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) November 13, 2015
#MotherCabrini at @StPatsNYC @MarysShrine & her own shrine in Washington Heights pic.twitter.com/PLGC4U4LsF
— Kathryn Jean Lopez (@kathrynlopez) November 13, 2015
9.
Stained glass from Baltimore Cathedral of St Frances Cabrini, 1st American citizen to be canonised https://t.co/2Ag7B1wip8
— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) November 13, 2015
10. Fr. Roger Landry:
Mother Cabrini’s zeal for the Kingdom and her sanctity were seen in her willingness to put out into the deep waters and lower her nets for a catch for Christ all over the globe. As a little girl, she had fallen into a river and almost drowned. Despite her fear of water from that point forward, she spent much of her adult life aboard ship sailing across rough seas or over rivers to open schools for the fish she and her community would catch in those nets. She models for us the courage and creativity needed to see and spread the kingdom, to help others make God the most present and decisive reality in their life, to help them embrace Christ the King, enter his Kingdom and live with him in that kingdom. She demonstrates for her fellow American citizens how to be at the same time and more profoundly true citizens of heaven (Phil 3:20), living in the Kingdom and seeking to imbue the United States more and more with the values of the Kingdom.
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