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Catherine Doherty

Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty CM, better known as Catherine Doherty (August 15, 1896 – December 14, 1985), was a Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social justice and a renowned national speaker, Doherty was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, best-selling author of dozens of books, and a dedicated wife and mother. Her cause for canonization as a saint is under consideration by the Catholic Church.

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Listen to God's speech in his wondrous, terrible, gentle, loving, all-embracing silence.

Gentle, Listen, Loving, Silence, Speech, Terrible

We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.

Christ, Jesus, Land, Mission, Uncover

Faith brings into our lives such freedom, such love, such peace, and such joy that there are no words in any language that can explain it. You have to have it in order to know it. You have to experience it in order to understand it. Faith liberates. It liberates love and hope. If I am free to love and free to hope, what more do I want of life?

Freedom, Joy, Liberates, Order, Peace, Want

God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.

Forcing, God, Reveals, Tears, Trying, Waiting

With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.

Begin Again, Beginning, God, Moment, Moments

Love. . . love. . . love, never counting the cost.

Cost, Counting, Counting The Cost, Love

Faith is contagious when we show it to one another.

Contagious, Faith, Show, Shows

What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.

Matter, Matters, Tremendously

Faith allows us to enter peacefully into the dark night which faces every one of us at one time or another.

Allows, Dark, Faith, Night, Peacefully

Preach the Gospel with your life — without compromise!

Compromise, Gospel, Life, Preach

True silence is the speech of lovers.

Lovers, Silence, Speech

Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.

Awesome, Children, Giving, Heart, Live

Faith is fudamentally a kind of folly.

Faith, Folly, Fudamentally, Kind

Acquire inner peace and a multitude will find their salvation near you.

Inspirational, Meditation, Multitude, Peace, Salvation

We need to be poor! Let us live an ordinary life, but, beloved, let us live it with a passionate love for God. Become a mystery. Stretch one hand out to God, the other to your neighbour. Be cruciform. … Christ’s cross will be our revolution and it will be a revolution of love!

Become, Cross, Hands, Live, Needs, Ordinary

To pass through the door that leads to God's kingdom, we must go down on our knees.

Doors, Down, Kingdoms, Knees, Leads

Faith considers that its precariousness and its finiteness are but the womb in which it abides, moving toward the plenitude and fullness of the eternity which it desires and believes in and which revelation opens to it.

Believe, Considers, Faith, Moving, Opens

Faith walks simply, childlike, between the darkness of human life and the hope of what is to come.

Hope, Darkness, Human Life, Faith, Come

With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.

Communication, Gift, Healing, Listening, Relationship

True silence is a garden enclosed, where alone the soul can meet its God.

Enclosed, Garden, God, Meet, Silence, Soul

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