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Wikipedia Summary for Catherine McAuley
Catherine McAuley (29 September 1778 – 11 November 1841) was an Irish religious sister who founded the Sisters of Mercy in 1831.
The women's congregation has always been associated with teaching, especially in Ireland, where the sisters taught Catholics (and at times Protestants) at a time when education was mainly reserved for members of the established Church of Ireland.
Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.
Let us take one day only in hands at a time. Resolve to do good today and better tomorrow.
The simplest and most practical lesson I know is to resolve to be good today, but better tomorrow.
If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.
I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.
The tender Mercy of God has given us one another.
We have one solid comfort amidst this little tripping about, our hearts can always be in the same place, centered in God, for whom alone we go forward or stay back.
We should be shining lamps, giving light to all around us.
Each day is a step we make towards eternity and we shall continue thus to step from day to day until we take the last step, which will bring us into the presence of God.
Oh may He look on us with love and pity and then we shall be able to do anything He wishes us to do, no matter how difficult to accomplish or painful to our feeling.
This is the spirit of the Order, indeed the true spirit of Mercy flowing on us.
There has been a most Providential Guidance which the want of prudence, vigilance, or judgement has not impeded, and it is here that we can most clearly see the designs of God.
We have now gone beyond 100 in number, and the desire to join seems rather to increase, though it was thought the foundations would retard it, it seems quite otherwise.
If we don't take Tullamore, no other community will.