Frases de Catherine Doherty

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Catherine Doherty

Data de nascimento: 15. Agosto 1896
Data de falecimento: 14. Dezembro 1985

Ekaterina Fyodorovna Kolyschkine de Hueck Doherty , better known as Baroness Catherine Doherty , was a Catholic social worker and founder of the Madonna House Apostolate. A pioneer of social justice and a renowned national speaker,

Doherty was also a prolific writer of hundreds of articles, best-selling author of dozens of books, and a dedicated wife and mother. Her cause for canonization as a saint is under consideration by the Catholic Church.

Citações Catherine Doherty

„Identification [with the other] is difficult but precious. It involves doing violence to yourself. Yet Scripture says that "heaven is taken by violence" to oneself [Luke 16:16]. To identify oneself with the other is to love him beyond words, a total giving of oneself in truth.“

— Catherine Doherty
"Living the Mandate", p. 36

„I go to my past in order to discern the future.“

— Catherine Doherty
Fragments of My Life (1979)

„Here I want to reiterate very clearly that this Little Mandate did not come to me dictated, or as a whole, but as I am telling it now. Get the picture: it could happen any place, any time, in the midst of a group, in my office, at lunch in a cafeteria. Suddenly a little light, a little added word would come to me. I used to write them down on scraps of paper, on the back of old envelopes, in some diary, maybe lost or forgotten now; though some of them are still here. It was a patchy thing.“

— Catherine Doherty
"How the Little Mandate Came to Be", p. 23

„The stranger is simply a friend I haven't met yet.“

— Catherine Doherty
Ch. 15

„Purity of heart is love for the weak who constantly fall.“

— Catherine Doherty
Ch. 12

„True silence is the speech of lovers. For only love knows its beauty, completeness and utter joy.“

— Catherine Doherty
Ch. 1

„Real zeal is standing still and letting God be a bonfire in you.“

— Catherine Doherty
Ch. 5

„God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation and who don't try to "tear at the hem of a mystery" forcing disclosure.“

— Catherine Doherty
Ch. 3

„We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.“

— Catherine Doherty

„Lord, give me the heart of a child, and the awesome courage to live it out as an adult.“

— Catherine Doherty

„The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you. You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child. If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be to change a dirty diaper. So you do it. But you don’t just change that diaper, you change it to the best of your ability, with great love for both God and that child.... There are all kinds of good Catholic things you can do, but whatever they are, you have to realize that there is always the duty of the moment to be done. And it must be done, because the duty of the moment is the duty of God.“

— Catherine Doherty
Dear Parents (1997)

„We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.“

— Catherine Doherty
Love One Another (audio cassette, 2002)

„Loving does not necessarily mean liking. But it still is loving, yes — totally, completely, utterly. Take the key of wisdom and unlock your own heart. Then let people in one by one. Listen to them, with full attention, with all your mind, heart, body and soul, unto exhaustion. And look! — the exhaustion will be lifted, and you will be able to listen still more. Yes, love must be communicated person to person; otherwise it will not be effective.“

— Catherine Doherty

„With God, every moment is the moment of beginning again.“

— Catherine Doherty
The Gospel Without Compromise (1976)

„When we reach the silver sands and plunge into the great sea of God's silence, we begin to understand that he alone is God — Lover, Friend, the totality of gentleness, peace and rest. He calls us and we cannot resist that call. We have to be alone with him. It is a necessity, it is a hunger. It has been said that prayer is a hunger. But this Christ walks with loneliness and rejection, and so must we.“

— Catherine Doherty

„What is the market place? Is it the secular city? Is it the factual market place, that is to say the urban inner city? Is it suburbia where all the supermarkets are? No. The market place is simply the soul of man. It is the place where man trades his soul either to God or to the devil or to the 'in between', with indifference, tepidity and complacency.“

— Catherine Doherty
"Living the Mandate", p. 40 The last part of the quote, about those who trade their souls to the 'in between', alludes to Rev 3:15-16.