August 31 - Where love, there is God ...

Fr. Job's birthplace,
Neunburg von Wald, Germany

Where love, there is God and where God, there is heaven - in our hearts, in our homes.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 949
Trust & Dare, August 31

August 30, 1791 - Father Sebastian Job was ordained ...

Father Franz (Francis) Sebastian Job,
Motherhouse, Austria.

1791: Father Francis Sebastian Job ordained in Regensburg. (See Sturdy Roots)

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My God and All!. . . . To love you is here the beginning and hereafter the perfect and eternal continuation of true happiness.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 3
Trust & Dare, August 30

August 29 - True happiness ...

29 August—International Day Against Nuclear Tests - stresses the goal to cease nuclear testing, because of its powerful and negative effects on human life and the health of the Earth.

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Drawing in Kindergarten in Italy.

True happiness is happiness in God.  

Nothing suffices to fill the heart but God.

Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 2

Trust & Dare, August 29

August 28 - Feast Day of St. Augustine ...

430: St. Augustine died in Hippo, North Africa. (For information see Sturdy Roots website.)

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2011:  Inauguration of the Province of Africa. 

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My heart should beat only for you, O God, because it is made only by and for you and because everything is dust to me; you are my all.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 3
Trust & Dare, August 28

August 27 - The heart forms itself...

1884: M. Seraphine von Pronath died in Milwaukee. She was a member of the first group of sisters to come from Munich to North America. In the photo, she is in the front row on the far left.

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The heart forms itself according to what it loves.

Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 3

Trust & Dare, August 27

August 25 - Cold,so-called sober reason does...

Mother Theresa with student, 
Location: the Notre Dame
high school,
Kyoto, Japan.
Artist: Jiro Nojima
On the base of the statue is
a quote from Mother Theresa: 
If a person will be changed,
the world will be changed. 

Cold, so-called sober reason does nothing to foster love. 

Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 1
Trust & Dare, August 25

August 24, 1824 - Mother Caroline Friess baptized ...

Mother Caroline Friess

1824: Josepha Friess (later Mother Caroline Friess) was baptized at Notre Dame des Victoires church, Paris.

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We want to use no other weapons against our enemies but prayer and love.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 2367
Trust & Dare, August 24

August 23 - This is the sign ...

Crucifix in Generalate chapel

International Day for the Remembrance of the Slave Trade and its Abolition honors the efforts of those who have resisted the slave trade in the past and supports the fight against servitude today. 

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This is the sign by which we will be recognized . . . that we love one another after the example of Jesus, who on the cross still prayed even for his enemies and who has loved us all unto death.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 714
Trust & Dare, August 23

August 22 - Love is the bond ...

Love
is the bond that unites us
with one another and
with God.

Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 949
Trust & Dare, August 22

Small Chapel
Generalate, Rome

August 21 - Mother Caroline's birthday ...

Mother Caroline Friess
Processional banner
created by St Louis

Liturgical Fabric Arts

1824: Mary Catherine Josephine (Josepha) Friess was born in Choisy-le-Roi, a suburb of Paris. (In 1850, as Sister M. Caroline Friess, she was appointed Mother Theresa's vicar in North America.)  
Read P.M.Abbelen's biography of Mother Caroline.
Read more on Sturdy Roots. 
Learn more on the congregational website.

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No matter how much it storms outside, our congregation will stand firm and continue to flourish as long as we persevere in holy love among ourselves.  
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 714

Trust & Dare, August 21

August 20 - Let us help one another ...

SSND Family Tree
Artist: Josef Kastner 
Occasion: Golden Anniversary
of the Congregation.
Names of SSND missions
are on the leaves.

As sisters let us help one another, and as sinners let us pray together fervently in the name of Jesus; then the Lord will be in our midst.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 4760
Trust & Dare, August 20

August 19 - In silence and hope is strength...

World Humanitarian Day provides an opportunity for solidarity with the millions around the world who need humanitarian assistance to survive by honoring the work of those fighting for change and encouraging further advocacy. Click here to learn more.

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Blessed Mother Theresia
Location: Curitiba, Paraná, Brazil

Artist: Mara Grebogi, 1986

“In silence and hope is strength” is your word, O my God.  Give me the grace constantly to praise and glorify you with heart and tongue and, before I say a word, to weigh it on the golden scale of God’s love.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 29
Trust & Dare, August 19

August 18 - Sisterly charity ...

What should I say about sisterly charity, which should make us of one heart and one mind like the first holy Christian community?
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 949
Trust & Dare, August 18

August 17 - True and sincere love - more

Artist: S. M. Kornelia Kwasniewicz
Location: Opole-Polan

True and sincere love of our neighbor is at the same time the infallible criterion of our love of God.
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 4307
Trust & Dare, August 17

August 16 - Love is the sign ...

Love

is the sign 

through which the world 

should be convinced 

that we believe in 

Jesus.

Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 949

Trust & Dare, August 16

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Image: Mother Theresa with sisters and students.

Location: Vohenstrauss, Germany 

Painted in 1948. Artist: Ludwig Angerer.

August 15 - Assumption of Mary ... more

From Generalate chapel.

Feast of the Assumption of Mary

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1847:  Mother Theresa and four sisters arrived in St. Marys, Pennsylvania, USA. They had set sail from Bremen, Germany on June 25.

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1849: The first Profession ceremony in America was held in Baltimore. 

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1850: M. Caroline Friess arrived in Munich from North America to discuss the enclosure with Mother Theresa.

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How blessed will the judgment be if in our lifetime we have followed in the footprints of Mary and imitated her example.  She herself asserts in her beautiful hymn of praise, the Magnificat: “He has looked upon the lowliness of his handmaid.”
Blessed M. Theresa Gerhardinger, 5199
Trust & Dare, August 15