"... Looking at passages in Marguerite’s writings where she speaks of what God is like, we can be helped to recognize God, to notice God in the very ordinary experiences of our own lives...

Where in the ordinary experiences of daily life is God expressing delight in us, pride in us? Can we see?...

To remember Marguerite is to remember that God loves us just as we are. With God, we are enough... God wants to be enough for us... we will also notice in ourselves a desire and a capacity to love others because we are so loved..."

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Huguette Lévesque, C.N.D.

"WHY DO WE PREFER TO BE WANDERERS RATHER THAN CLOISTERED?" (Writings of Marguerite Bourgeoys, p. 49)

"...The Jubilee Year 2000 invites us to look for signs of God’s presence in our time. But where do we need to go to discover them? What roads will prove to to be the ones that will lead us where we want to go? For me, « wandering » on new paths with young people lets me perceive some signs, more or less profound, in different forms, some painful, but all suggesting a life which asks only to be welcomed, guided, and plumbed to its depths."

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