The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1922-03-17

before beginning his mission, so V!n- cent called her from the brilliant cir cle of Parisian life to one Of med1ta-
 ton, prayer, union With Goo aHe 4Iis constant reproduction in the poor When Louise was strong enough al ter this novitiate to see the poor as God had given Vincent de Paul to see hem. the saint opened to her eyes the immense panorama of her future activity; and where another sou! might shrink back. hers schooled py Almighty God from her cradle by the loss of mother and father, in early life by the loss of her husba nd, tra1n- ed by Vincent to weigh values in the scales of eternity, her soul subn1tted with the docility of one who knows that it is God who worketh in us, accepted the labor, and consecrated it with the words of her master-No ot My Will but Thine Be Done.
 The rest of her life is soon recount ed. Carrying on the work Wh1ch
 Vincent had outlined for her, she spent her day going from house 10
 house succoring the wants ot the poor, whom we are told, were reduc- ed to such distress that their flood was often the grass of the field Soon enough her little store of strength was exhausted, and the pressing need arose of supplying others who would be willing to devote their lives and labors to the relief of the poor. Blessed Louise. like her Divine Mas ter did not seek His disciples from the nobility of Judea, but from the fishermen of Ga1iIee. and the first CO., operators of Louise de Marillac were a few country girls, simple, iabor1ouS and willing. Twelve fshenen were chosen as pillars of the church. and i've or six Village girls are the foun- dation of" this company. Here it was that the splendid talent and virtue of the Blessed Louise shone in their 1ustre. Here she becomes not only Nf also co-fOundress Taking these un- lettered rude girls under her tutelaSe, by words and particularly by exam pie for thirty years she labored pa tiently and constantly side by side with them, training them with en- ectitude and precision in the service of the weak. fusing into these, the first Sisters of Charity that divine love of the poor which burned in her own heart, and which has burned in the hearts of her daughters, till their very name, their life, their habit, their works have become another thousand difficulties did not dissuade her for a moment Never before was it known that a nun should leave the monastery and nurse the sick in their homes St. Francis de Sales had in stituted a community whose duty it was once a year to visit the sick. and this had failed. Here was this frail woman, f1inging aside the traditions of centuries. building up a community of sisters destined to nurse the sick in their own houses, having no Inon-t asteries. but the dwellings of the sick; their cell a hired room. their com raunity chapel the parish church
 their enclosure the streets of the city, or the wards of the hospital. having no r-ate but the fear of God, no veil but that of holy modesty. This was an innovation that the world stamped rash, but three hundred years. and thirty thousand and more of such daughters of Charity today prove that that which was foolish ness to the world was the wisdom of God: and the same world today acknowledges it's error whenever ouched the sticg Of suffering. and
 7umbiy cries out for solace and relief rom Blessed Louise in the person oi he Sister of Charity
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