Consuming zeal for souls...

 Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor,

serving the Lord.  Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction,

faithful in prayer. - Romans 12:11-12

"The offspring of this intensity of love

for our Eucharistic Lord

should be a consuming zeal for the 
gathering of souls into the fold of Christ.”

St Katharine Drexel

American ~ 1858 - 1955
Heiress, educator, founder of schools
Entered religious life at age 31

Foundress - Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament

aka 'the anti-Margaret Sanger'
(We need St K's special prayers in these days!)

Feast Day - March 3

 

“And here is the passive way – 

to be filled unto the fullness of God. 
The passive way – I abandon myself to it, not 

in a multiplicity of trials, extraordinary penances 

accomplished, practices of great works – 
but in peaceful abandonment to the tenderness of Jesus, 
which I must try to imitate, and by being in constant union 
with His meek and humble heart."  - St Katharine Drexel

Click here: St. Katharine Drexel - YouTube (2 mins)
Click here: Saint Katharine Drexel - YouTube (2 mins - CCTNtv)

Top painting: The Good Shepherd ~ Minerva Teichert

St Katharine Drexel, pray for us!