Pray Well

A quote from Catherine:

Let us pray well and never grow weary.

The other day one of my friends and I were sharing some reflections for our morning prayer. We were sharing some experiences of the women who had influenced us in our choice of being in Mercy and staying in Mercy.

As I shared about a wonderful Sister, Sr. M. Teresita and her way of teaching me about being Mercy, I realized that part of her example was that she was a woman of prayer. She had been in community at that time for 50 years and she was still faithful to prayer and even spent extra time praying for the needs of others.

She visited the shut-ins of the parish and friends of shut-ins who weren't of the parish. She visited relatives of some of the families in the school who were not active in the parish any more. She had a small loaf of sweet bread she would take or some fresh jam or a loaf of homemade bread.

On Sundays, I would drive her to the hospital or another nursing home to visit someone she knew since she did not drive. She gave meaning to the term "walking Sister".

I think that this quote would fit her, just as it fits Catherine. She prayed and seemed to get energy from her prayer so that she could go out and do what she did. May my prayer today give me energy to the work I do and help me be the Word in the world today.