Better is one day in your
courts
than a thousand
elsewhere... Psalm 84:10a
St. Josephine spent hours in Eucharistic
Adoration and,
when one Sister asked if it tired her, she
said,
"Not at all! I have been having a
wonderful time with Him.
He has waited so
long for me."
St Josephine
Bakhita
Sudan/Italy
~ 1869-1947
Religious (Canossian Daughters of
Charity)
Pope Benedict XVI, on 30 November 2007, in the
beginning
of his second encyclical letter Spe Salvi (In Hope We Were Saved),
relates her entire life
story
as an outstanding example of the Christian
hope.
Feast Day - Feb
8
Toward the end of her life, Mother Bakhita used to smile and say:
"I travel slowly, one step at a time, because I am carrying two big suitcases.
One of them contains my sins, and in the other, which is much heavier, are the
infinite merits of Jesus. When I reach heaven I will open the suitcases and say
to God: 'Eternal Father, now you can judge.' And to St. Peter: 'Close the door,
because I'm staying.'"
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