May 15
What is Catholic Women’s Leadership?
“The active enterprise by Catholic women to bring the world to Jesus Christ and Jesus Christ to the world by emulating the Blessed Virgin Mary’s magnanimity of soul, servant’s heart, and conformity to the will of God.”
-Johnnette Benkovic Williams
May 14
“Magnanimity and humility define the leader. Magnanimity is the quest of the spirit for great things. He who strives for greatness and seeks to correspond to it is magnanimous. Magnanimity is rooted in a firm confidence in the highest possibilities of human nature.
Humility is the habit of living in the truth about one’s metaphysical condition, and one’s strengths and weaknesses. It is also the habit of service to family and friends, colleagues and clients, society at large, and indeed all of humanity. Humility fosters in leaders the ambition to serve unconditionally.”
-Alexandre Havard, Virtuous Leadership
May 13
“Before I formed you in the womb I knew you, before you were born I set you apart; I appointed you as a prophet to the nations.”
-Jeremiah 1:5
May 12
"Our love of neighbour is the measure of our love of God. For Christians — and not only for them — no one is a ‘stranger’. The love of Christ knows no borders.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
May 11
“The woman's soul is fashioned as a shelter in which other souls may unfold.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
May 10
“Everywhere the need exists for maternal sympathy and help… but in accordance with the model of the Mother of Mercy, it must have its root in universal divine love for all who are there, belabored and burdened.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
May 9
“For I know the plans I have for you, declares the Lord, plans for good and not for evil, to give you a future and a hope.”
-Jeremiah 29:11
May 7
Spiritual Essentials of Success by Johnnette Benkovic Williams
S - SurrenderU - Uniformity to God’s will
C - Constancy
C - Continuous Conversion
E - Empathy
S - Service
S - Sacrifice
May 6
“God is there in these moments of rest and can give us, in a single instant, exactly what we need. Then the rest of the day can take its course, under the same effort and strain, perhaps, but in peace.”
-St. Teresa Benedicta
