We have to go down the hill of suffering before we can go up the mountain of transfiguration. Soon, the white robes of Heaven and the transfiguration will come. Courage!

13 Sept

Written by Mary Whelan

Let’s keep the thought of the beauty, the joy, the delights of Heaven before us as we plod on each day, and keep reminding ourselves with Julian of Norwich, “All will be well!”

“It was the feast of the Exaltation of the Cross, and from that moment, crosses poured in upon us... We had hard and unexpected trials, as though to assure us the foundation was of God.”

... I was thinking the other day that we never had a work which is more completely suited to the Servants of the Poor - for those you are to look after are the poorest of the poor.