Every person has different characteristics and dreams. Many people have a desire to become productive, and have a fantastic job, house, car, and family. Others have a goal to help other people like Jacqueline Novogratz, the author of The Blue Sweater. Novogratz was a young woman who was a banker and has a dream and unique personality. There are three main characteristics that make Jacqueline Novogratz unique: she is compassionate, driven, and patient. First, Novogratz is a…
Mary Ward, who founded the Institute of the Blessed Virgin Mary (Loreto Sisters) was born in England on the 23 January 1585. She became one of the greatest English women of the seventeenth century, a courageous innovator, a mystic, a holy woman and an inspirational leader. Mary Ward passed away on the 30 January 1645 Heworth, United Kingdom. Throughout Mary Ward’s , she wanted to give active service to God and others. Thus began her extraordinary journey. I believe Mary Ward should definitely…
People nowadays don't always think about other while doing thing but the Greeks have a proverb that say, a society grows great when old men grow tree whose shade they know they shall never sit in. This more or less means, that when people do thing for others, that don't always help them self, it makes the people as a whole greater. Mother Teresa was a woman that did so much for other while getting nothing in return, she was willing to have nothing so others could have something, which reminds…
Katharine Drexel is a well respected saint. She is known for her dedicated life of service to American Indians and African Americans. Because of her service she is the patron saint of racial justice and philanthropy. St. Drexel was canonized on October 1, 2000. Her feast day is March 3rd. Saint Katharine Drexel lived an ideal life of the Feminine Genius. She lived her life in the best way to serve God. Katharine Drexel was born on November 28, 1858 in Philadelphia Pennsylvania. She is the…
Raneem Botros had grown up in a relatively good life with a good house hold. That had been the first six years of her life. She had always been happy and smiling, always pleased to see her father until she had come to the true reality that life was; her mother was a lesbian, her father had raped her when she had been only fifteen, and the man she had grown up calling her daddy had only been her mother 's father. Raneem wasn 't displeased about the fact she had two mothers instead of one, and…
food with others. Once, a little Agnes asked her mother who were the people eating with them? She responded, some of them are relatives, the rest is just other people. As she grew Agnes became interested in missionaries. At age seventeen, she responded to her mission as a Catholic missionary nun. After that she changed her name to Teresa. She moved to India, and learned to speak both Bengali and Hindi fluently, and started teaching geography and history at Saint Mary’s high school, in Calcutta.…
What do you think of when you hear the word hero. Do you think of super heroes. Or do you think of fire fighters. Maybe you think of policemen. Think about it pharmetics save lives all the time just like other protectors of the city. The person that acted like a hero the most in the book was Jhonny. Johnny did a lot of good things in the book that helped people out. Johnny stood up for the girls when dally was being rude to them. He got supplies for them when they were in the church.…
In your religion book, is proclaims that “Solidarity is the virtue of social charity, friendship and responsible sharing whereby the interdependence among all people is recognized” (CCC 56). This means that we are always going to be brother and sister and we need to treat each other. Personally I adore the fact that Saint Maria never…
Very little is known about St. Victoria. I am Daniella Ayala and I chose St. Victoria as my Confirmation name. St. Victoria is the patron saint of Anticoli Corrado, Italy. St. Victoria’s date of birth and what country she was born in couldn’t be found, but she lived in Picenum, Italy, so to my conclusion she probably was born in Italy. She was a noble woman with her sister Anatolia, which is also a saint. Victoria and her sister were supposed to marry a noble pagans, but her sister convinced…
Catherine McAuley once said “we should be shining lamps giving light to all around us”. This quote from Catherine is speaking of her approach to her work. That the purpose of lighting the lamp is not to draw attention to yourself but to give some light to those around you. This relates to the work that she did because it talks about how she helped others not for herself, but because she saw an issue and wanted to take action. Today I am going to talk to you about an Irish nun called Catherine…