There is a tremendous strength that is growing in the world through sharing together, praying together, suffering together, and working together.

Dearest Lord, may I see you today and every day in the person of your sick, and, whilst nursing them, minister unto you. Though you hide yourself behind the unattractive disguise of the irritable, the exacting, the unreasonable, may I still recognize you, and say: "Jesus, my patient, how sweet it is to serve you.

Keep in mind that our community is not composed of those who are already saints, but of those who are trying to become saints. Therefore let us be extremely patient with each other's faults and failures.

Am I ever angry or frustrated? I only feel angry sometimes when I see waste, when things that we waste are what people need, things that would save them from dying. Frustrated? No, never.

Intense love does not measure, it just gives.

To keep a lamp burning, we have to keep putting oil in it.

Like Jesus we belong to the world living not for ourselves but for others. The joy of the Lord is our strength.