On May 25th we gratefully celebrate the Feast of St. Madeleine Sophie Barat, the foundress of the Society of the Sacred Heart: a woman of God for the world.
Her life was made of threads woven by the Hand and Love of God:
“…the threads with which the weaver God began to braid secretly…. that work that we now celebrate and for which we are grateful:
– the thread of fire that brought her to the world and enkindled her spirit;
– the thread of the vineyards that saw her being born and growing, and from which she learned how the branch clings to the vine in order to live;
– the thread of a simple home that gave her the taste for poverty and simplicity;
– the thread of a human and intellectual formation unusual for a girl of her times, that prepared the future educator;
– the threads of separation from her parents, her companions, and from a train of life full of fun but superficial… and of the encounters: Paris…a center of relationships: L. Brouillard, who briefly guided her on her way of trust;
And also along this fragile and vulnerable thread, amidst threads of difficulties and failures, in her life she learned to lean on Him alone:
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