Feast Day of St. Katharine Drexel
Blessed Are the Pure of HeartKatharine Drexel is a wonderful example of Purity of Heart. She was told by her spiritual director to begin a religious order to serve both Indians and Blacks. Katharine thought she was not virtuous enough. She did obey her director and after a retreat wrote this, "It was only this morning, that I could promise Our Lord to please Him by entering fully into your (Spiritual Director's) plan of founding an order. As long as I look on self, I cannot. Our Lord gives and will give me the grace always to look at Him.”
St. Katharine Drexel, pray for us.