It’s easy to be inspired by Mother Cabrini’s story. She sees a prostitute on the streets of New York and takes her in. She finds her boy in a dirty alley and invites him to be sheltered in her own orphanage. She hears racist slurs and hateful comments – “You should send them all back,” one man audibly says – and yet she turns the other cheek. I chose not to react. When the orphanage reaches capacity, she raises money to build a new one. She raised money to build a hospital because she learned that many immigrants lack access to health care. When she learns that she has tuberculosis and that she only has a few years to live, she moves on.
“You will have plenty of time to rest in heaven,” she tells the archbishop.Her goal was to see the world as Jesus saw.
“Her life seemed like the ultimate prayer” coach Alejandro Monteverde told Crosswalk. “She didn’t care what people believed. She cared about people.”
Cabrini’s life teaches us to “love more and judge less,” he added.
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