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Title: Pages from a hundred years of Dominican history : the story of the Congregation of Saint Catherine of Sienna / by Anna C. Minogue
Year: 1921 (1920s)
Authors: Minogue, Anna Catherine, b. 1874
Subjects: Dominican Sisters. Congregation of St. Catherine of Siena (St. Catherine, Ky.) -- History
Publisher: New York : F. Pustet, (1921?)
Contributing Library: Catholic Theological Union
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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deprivation was cheerfully borneso long as it brought them into close friendshipwith the Master for whom they had given up all. Thekind hand of Providence seemed ever near them.If the larder was empty, as it often was in literaltruth. Mother Angela would comfort the sisters andassure them confidently that ^God would provide,which He did in wonderful ways and often throughunusual agents. Sometimes we question why it should be, thatthose engaged in a holy cause, who have completelysacrificed themselves for that cause, as had theseDominican nuns on the Kentucky frontier, shouldmeet with trials, obstacles and heart-breaking op-position, when other works, lacking this character,sweep onward to success. It would seem that whomor what Grod would have. He subjects to trial. ^Icounsel thee to buy for me gold tried in the furnace,He commands. Nor is it alone because what is of-fered to God must be free from alloy. We may alsofind a reason that appeals very strongly to our com- f-^ : ^ ;_,.„^
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Pioneer Days 57 mon sense. Success is the supreme test and those whowould meet it and not be conquered by it must comeup to it as the athlete to the game. Trained in thehard school of experience, shaped by hard trialmust be those who can wear the victors crownwithout arrogance or forgetfulness. A conquest tooeasy becomes worthless in our eyes or else feeds ourvanity; and where vanity rules, the throne has be-gun to crumble. However we may smart under trial,however rail against its seeming injustice, there isever the underlying consciousness that we insteadshould Welcome each rebuffThat turns earths smoothness roughEach sting that bids nor sit nor stand but go! As soon as they were in a position to do so, thesisters built a small chapel. No humbler shrine prob-ably was ever erected in a Dominican convent; butnone was ever the center of a stronger faith, aserener hope, a purer love. Poor and rude was thealtar they built for their Eucharistic Lord, but whattheir hands could not supply, t

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