Know who you are!

Through God's wonderful grace, I was able to see Cabrini, the new movie that came out last week.  I read the reviews and was so eager to see it.

I thought that it was just perfect!  It was perfect for two reasons.  Now in lent, we need to keep our eyes on God and be focused on our greatest ability that God has given us.  He has given us communion with him so we may decrease and he may increase.  When he increases in our life, LOVE emits out of us.  Our greatest ability is to Love.  That's what I saw in Mother Cabrini.  You may have not seen her in prayer, or in church much in the movie.  But to the person who is beginning their walk in Christ or spirituality, I bet they did a search and found the volumes of how she enriched her life and how she became the greatest she could be, despite the odds she faced.  So, as lent is to strip us of all the extras we add onto our lives, we could slowly get to the core, the cuore- THE HEART.  Stripping ourselves plus putting on Christ, contemplating his passion, nurtures and grows the LOVE within us.  The 'Christ in us'.

Secondly, what you may appear like on earth is not necessarily a good guide to what you look like in the spirit.  When you nourish and constantly strengthen your spirit...Just like St Frances Cabrini did, you become a spiritual powerhouse.  In the natural, she was frail, small, sickly, and a female in a male's world.  But her strong spirit in the Lord helped her to accomplish God's work:

• She founded her own order with seven other young women—the Institute of the Missionary Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus. 
• She visited Rome to obtain an audience with Pope Leo XIII.
• She was to help the thousands of Italian immigrants already in the United States. 
• At the time NYC was filled with chaos and poverty, Cabrini organized catechism and education classes for the Italian immigrants and provided for the needs of the many orphans. She established schools and orphanages despite tremendous odds.
• She opened schools  all over the world. She traveled to Europe, Central and South America, and throughout the United States. She made 24 trans-Atlantic crossings ( having a lifelong fear of water) and established 67 institutions: schools, hospitals, and orphanages.

When you have LOVE, you can do everything.  Just let LOVE do all the work!
LOVE=Jesus.   She knew who she was; a child of God.  Being a child of God has many miraculous benefits.  Know who you are and don't be manipulated by the dark thoughts or critiques that are not beneficial to your soul. You are a child of God...Period.  So the second reason is to remind us who we are.

I hope you get to see it!

I love you all! You are in my prayers, please pray for me...I'm organizing a big EXPO for the Lord!

Love,

​Karen