Place of Mary
In the Spiritual Memoirs of Magdalen, Mary is remembered with special affection.
In 1806, amidst many difficulties, when Magdalen struggled with the work which God had entrusted to her, she records:
"it is precisely then that I began to honour the most Holy Virgin Mary under the title of the 'Loving Mother'; in fact, since I was a child I have always been very attached and devoted to her."
Magdalen placed her own needs and those of her work in the heart of Mary, Mother of Love, and did not hesitate to entrust to her the efforts of the first women who joined her as Sisters.
Magdalen's great faith in Mary is clearly seen in both her devotion to Mary, and in honouring her as the real "Mother and Foundress" of the Daughters of Charity.
This love for, and devotion to Mary, continues in our Institute today as we honour her throughout the year, and in a particular way, on the Feast of Our Lady of Sorrows, September 15, the Feast of our Institute.
