Reflecting on our Founders
Prayer
Let us pray:
“Catholic nuns emerged as the unexpected heroes in the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic. While praise must be given to all workers who assisted in fighting the epidemic, special praise should go out to the Catholic sisters who went out from their convents into private homes and, with the unselfishness that characterizes these women ..., gave service which money alone could never have purchased," Oct. 18, 1918, edition of the Boston Traveler newspaper.
God of courage and light, we pray in gratitude for all who came before us, who serve as a model for how we are called today to respond. Help us to be people of courage and hope, to carry forward the mission that our Founders worked so tirelessly and selflessly to pass on to us. Amen.
Reflection:
- How am I being invited to care selflessly today?