The second in a series of videos offered by the AIC International Training Team to mark the Feast of St. Louise de Marillac.
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The second in a series of videos offered by the AIC International Training Team to mark the Feast of St. Louise de Marillac.
The first in a series of videos offered by the AIC International Training Team to mark the Feast of St. Louise de Marillac.
For the next few moments, reflect on this video from the Daughters of Charity International.
A presentation about the numerous ministries or works which St. Louise planned, executed, and developed.
In this video Sr. Louise Sullivan, DC, explains that it took two special personalities– Louise de Marillac’s, and Vincent de Paul’s– to lead the Church forward in a recognition of its obligations to those in need.
St. Louise had an appreciation of rationality balanced with compassion, judgment tempered with mercy, theory based on life experience, and justice blended with gentleness.
A presentation from Chapter 15 of “Louise de Marillac: Come Winds or High Waters” by Élisabeth Charpy, D.C., (2018).
Louise reflected on what she came to know about the early Congregation of the Mission and, as she liked to do with the important events of her life, she put her reflections into writing. The relationship and collaboration between St. Louise, the Daughters of Charity,...
“As we say about some of the people in the Bible, so too we can say that Louise walked with God (Cf., Genesis 5:22).”
Reading the letters of St. Louise helps us see her humanness, as opposed to thinking of her as some faraway Saint.