She’s one of my favorites and now her feast is upon us. The charity this woman exuded should inspire us all.
There is a story of her life that, as a young woman, she had an audience with Pope Leo XIII. Although she was simply supposed to kneel and pay her reverence to the Holy Father, she burst out with her desire that he allow her to be a missionary to the Far East. Pope Leo, perhaps inspired himself, quietly took her hands and said, “Not to the East, but to the West…”
Mother Cabrini, first saint of our land, pray for us!
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