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The nineteenth century was an age of grand accomplishment: electricity, telegraph and telephone, automobiles.
Perhaps some of the most astonishing accomplishments, however, came from a diminutive, frail Italian woman. In twenty-seven short years, she established sixty-seven schools, orphanages, and hospitals. She founded worldwide a religious order that, at her death, numbered nearly two thousand. She did it all simply by “doing the work that needs to be done.” She believed absolutely that she could do all things in Christ who strengthened her—even ordinary duties, which she carried out wholeheartedly.
“If we’d stayed in Italy, we’d have had to eat each other.” Italy in the nineteenth century could no longer support its growing population. In the meantime, industrial expansion in the rest of Europe and in America offered a tantalizing promise of prosperity. And so, millions of Italians headed west. Between 1889 and 1917, Italian immigrants to the United States alone topped four…
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Mother Cabrini’s story has given me hope.
My question though then and now persons are not as willing to give to causes that are for the building of God’s Kingdom.
The world’s peoples have become so material-gain-focused and have lost sight of remembering what the Lord ask of us - Love one another - etc