March 3 ~ Saint Katharine Drexel

FRATERNITY is a stewardship of treasure

The harvest is large, but there are few workers.  ~ Matthew 9:37

Kate Drexel came from a wealthy family in Philadelphia.  Riding through the city one day in the 1880s, Kate saw the tragic plight of African-American children living in hideous slum conditions. 
When she probed their plight, she became convinced that prejudice, broken promises, and unjust laws were creating a cycle of ignorance and powerlessness for these children.  Kate decided to do something. 
She founded the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament to work among African-American and Native American children. 
By the time Mother Katharine Drexel died, she had spent nearly $20 million of her own personal fortune on this work.  The order she founded over a hundred years ago continues her work. 
Her canonization was granted by Pope John Paul II. 
~ Mark Link, S.J.

If you had $20 million to spend as you wished, what is one thing you would use it for immediately?

A man’s true wealth hereafter, is the good he does in this world to his fellow man.  When he dies, people will say ‘What property has he left behind him?’ but the angels will ask, ‘What good deeds has he sent before him?’  ~ Mohammed

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