Merciful God,
source and goal of all life, you gave Blessed Pauline the grace to seek and do
your will in all the changing circumstances of her life. Through her
intercession help us to trust in your guidance and to bear witness to your
love. We ask this through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The Sisters of Christian Charity
Mother Adalberta
Mette's biography of Blessed
Pauline von Mallinckrodt
The source of
Mother Pauline's competence and self-assurance in dealing with people was
Christ. It was said of her:
Christ was the
center of her life--Christ, "the kindness and love of God" (Titus 3, 4) made
visible. In Christ, in the encounter with him in his Word and in the Eucharist,
as well as in the "least of his brothers and sisters," she found love that does
not count, that does not calculatingly repay like with like, but gives itself
away out of pure mercy, without reservation, without restriction, without
intention, and which gives witness of the fidelity, the mercy, the affection of
God for us people. It is that love which accepts the risk to let the other free
to accept this affection but in the same way knows how to awaken the best in
others and may raise them to the light. She wanted every Sister of her
congregation to feel impelled by this love.
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