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Catherine McAuley

The Venerable Mother Catherine Elizabeth 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 .

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Our charity is to be cordial. . . something that renews, invigorates and warms. Such should be the effect of our love for each other.

Charity, Cordial, Our Love, Should, Warms

No matter how small the gift, God gives the increase.

Giving, God, Increase, Matter, Small

Compassion should be our animating principle when undertaking instruction with children and adults, since they are made in God's image.

Adults, Children, Compassion, Instruction, Principle, Undertaking

I have great confidence in you to do what you think best. State your opinion and always act with courage.

Act, Opinion, State, States, Thinking

Our Vocation is full of joy and peace in the Holy Spirit.

Full, Holy, Joy, Spirit

If the love of God really reigns in your heart, it will show itself in the exterior.

God Love, Heart, Reign, Reigns, Show

Teach me to do your will, for you are my God.

Teach, God

We must strive to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

Ordinary, Ordinary Things, Strive, Things

A good beginning is of great importance.

Beginning, Good, Importance

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.

Design, Guidance, Judgement, See, Vigilance, Want

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.

Alone, Comfort, Heart, Littles, Solid

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.

Accomplish, Feelings, Matter, Pain, Painful, Wish

No work of charity can be more productive of good to society than the careful instruction of women.

Careful, Charity, Instruction, Women

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.

Desire, Foundation, Number, Numbers, Though

The poor need help today, not next week.

Help, Needs, Next Week, Today, Week

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.

Day, Each Day, God, Lasts, Make, Steps