Remember, O LORD, how
I have walked before you faithfully
and with wholehearted
devotion
and have done what is
good in your eyes. - Isaiah 38:3
“We cultivate a very small field
for Christ,
but we love it,
knowing
that God
does not require
great
achievements,
but a heart that holds back nothing for self.
...
He who has Jesus has everything."
St Rose Philippine Duchesne
nee France ~ 1769-1852
"Missionary of the American Frontier"
Foundress: American Society of the Sacred
Heart
Incorrrupt
FEAST DAY – November 18
St
Rose spent hours in adoration of our Eucharistic Lord. Sometimes her
prayer would go long into the nighttime, spending 6 to 8 hours before the
Blessed Sacrament. Her long hours of contemplation impelled the Potawatomi
Indians whom she served to name her, Quah-kah-ka-num-ad, "Woman-Who-Prays-Always". It is said that the
Native American children sneaked behind her as she knelt and sprinkled little
pebbles (or acorns or leaves) on her long habit robe, and came back hours later
(or even the following morning) to find them undisturbed.
She wrote: "Once baptized, they never revert to
drunkenness or stealing. Whatever is found is placed at the door of the church
to be claimed by the owner. Not a single house has
locks on the doors, yet nothing is ever missing. The Indians gather in groups
(men and women separate) for morning prayers, Mass, and catechism. In the
evening they assemble again for prayers."
"You may dazzle the mind with a
thousand brilliant discoveries of natural science; you may open new worlds of
knowledge which were never dreamed of before; yet, if you have not developed in
the soul of the pupil strong habits of virtue which will sustain her in the
struggle of life, you have not educated her, but only put in her hand a powerful
instrument of self-destruction." ~ Saint Rose
Philippine Duchesne
St Rose Philippine Duchesne, pray for
us!
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