Kathryn Lopez
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https://t.co/NxF9Y9uVi3 St. Angela Merici, foundress of the Ursuline Sisters, pray for us! #Catholic pic.twitter.com/VSCs2RHSUP
— Catholic News Agency (@cnalive) January 27, 2016
2. The saint who dyed her hair in soot
3. From the Spiritual Testament by Saint Angela Merici in the Office of Readings in the Liturgy of the Hours today:
Mothers and sisters most dear to me in Christ: in the first place strive with all your power and zeal to be open. With the help of God, try to receive such good counsel that, led solely by the love of God and an eagerness to save souls, you may fulfil your charge.
Only if the responsibilities committed to you are rooted firmly in this twofold charity will they bear beneficial and saving fruit. As our Saviour says: A good tree is not able to produce bad fruit.
He says: A good tree, that is, a good heart as well as a soul inflamed with charity, can do nothing but good and holy works. For this reason Saint Augustine said: Love, and do what you will, namely, possess love and charity and then do what you will. It is as if he had said: Charity is not able to sin.
I also beg you to be concerned about every one of your daughters. Bear them, so to speak, engraved upon your heart—not merely their names, but their conditions and states, whatever they may be. This will not be difficult for you if you embrace them with a living love.
Mothers of children, even if they have a thousand, carry each and every one fixed in their hearts, and because of the strength of their love they do not forget any of them. In fact, it seems that the more children they have the more their love and care for each one is increased. Surely those who are mothers in spirit can and must act all the more in the same way, because spiritual love is more powerful than the love that comes from a blood relationship.
Therefore, mothers most dear to me, if you love these your daughters with a living and unaffected charity, it will be impossible for you not to have each and every one of them engraved upon your memory and in your mind. I beg you again, strive to draw them by love, modesty, charity, and not by pride and harshness. Be sincerely kind to every one according to the words of our Lord: Learn of me, for I am meek and humble of heart. Thus you are imitating God, of whom it is said: He has disposed all things pleasantly. And again Jesus said: My yoke is easy and my burden is light.
You also ought to exercise pleasantness toward all, taking great care especially that what you have commanded may never be done by reason of force. For God has given free will to everyone, and therefore he forces no one but only indicates, calls, persuades. Sometimes, however, something will have to be done with a stronger command, yet in a suitable manner and according to the state and necessities of individuals; but then also we should be impelled only by charity and zeal for souls.
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Painting from the Ursuline church in Fribourg of St Angela Merici with St Ursula & Companion Martyrs https://t.co/OKSBdRiNBu
— Fr Lawrence Lew OP (@LawrenceOP) January 27, 2016
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St. Angela Merici, teach us the feminine genius and love for contemplative prayer.
— Bishop Barres (@BishopBarres) January 27, 2016
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Angela Merici, whose feast is today, gracing the bar at Hotel Merici in Sittard, Netherlands. #NewEvangelization. pic.twitter.com/ZxcI9qXSlW
— Susan Timoney (@DrTimoney) January 27, 2016
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"We must give alms. Charity wins souls and draws them to virtue." – Saint Angela Merici
#YearofMercy @3DCatholic pic.twitter.com/2FoAeUx4iJ
— Notre Dame Vision (@NotreDameVision) January 27, 2016
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"Act, move, believe, strive, hope, cry out to Him with all your heart,
for without a doubt you will see marvelous things." St. Angela Merici
— Msgr. Ronny Jenkins (@jenkinsronny) January 27, 2016
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