A diminutive, "sickly", Italian woman named Frances Xavier Cabrini gave her heart totally to Jesus and in so doing "lost" her life in Jesus and showed the world in spectacular ways, how much the heart of Jesus loves us. At first refused entry into a convent because of her fragile health, she stayed home to help care for her parents and work their farm. She taught catechism so successfully that the local pastor urged her to start her own religious order which became the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. Pope Leo XIII urged her to come to America to care for Italian immigrants, and so she did, founding 67 schools, orphanages and hospitals until her death in 1917. She was the first American citizen to be canonized by Pope Pius XII in 1946.
Her story points out again what God can do with the "least of his children" when they abandon all they once held dear in order to follow a higher call. May we hear God's call today and fear not what he is asking us to do for him. We too can spread the love of the Sacred Heart even in the smallest ways. May Mother Cabrini be our inspiration.
Bro. Rene
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