Frances Xavier Cabrini (1850–1917), born in Lombardy, founded the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart and crossed the ocean to serve Italian immigrants in the United States. She built schools, hospitals, and orphanages, and became a citizen of the country she served. The United States keeps her obligatory memorial on 13 November as a daughter who became a mother to immigrants. Ask today for a missionary heart toward the stranger at our docks and doorways, and for houses of mercy that outlast a generation.
Original – Prayer on Fire.
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1 John 3:1–3
See what kind of love the Father has given to us, that we would be called, and would become, the sons of God. Because of this, the world does not know us, for it did not know him.
Most beloved, we are now the sons of God. But what we shall be then has not yet appeared. We know that when he does appear, we shall be like him, for we shall see him as he is.
And everyone who holds this hope in him, keeps himself holy, just as he also is holy.
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