Catherine Doherty: Doing

Catherine Doherty was Religious order founder; Servant of God. Explore interesting quotes on doing.

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“The duty of the moment is what you should be doing at any given time, in whatever place God has put you. You may not have Christ in a homeless person at your door, but you may have a little child. If you have a child, your duty of the moment may be to change a dirty diaper. So you do it. But you don’t just change that diaper, you change it to the best of your ability, with great love for both God and that child…. There are all kinds of good Catholic things you can do, but whatever they are, you have to realize that there is always the duty of the moment to be done. And it must be done, because the duty of the moment is the duty of God.”

Catherine Doherty

Dear Parents (1997)

“Identification [with the other] is difficult but precious. It involves doing violence to yourself. Yet Scripture says that "heaven is taken by violence" to oneself [Luke 16:16]. To identify oneself with the other is to love him beyond words, a total giving of oneself in truth.”

Catherine Doherty

"Living the Mandate", p. 36
Unfinished Pilgrimage (1995)

“We do not go to mission lands to 'bring Jesus Christ' as much as to uncover him where he already is.”

Catherine Doherty

Sobornost (1977)

“We do not have to wait for the hereafter — it is now that we are one with Christ.”

Catherine Doherty

Love One Another (audio cassette, 2002)

“What you do matters — but not much. What you are matters tremendously.”

Catherine Doherty

Madonna House Staff Letter #140