A Story of Courage: Annals of the Georgetown Convent of the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin MaryRiverside Press, 1894 - 380 strán (strany) |
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Strana 179 - DEEP on the convent-roof the snows • Are sparkling to the moon : My breath to heaven like vapor goes : May my soul follow soon ! The shadows of the convent-towers Slant down the snowy sward, Still creeping with the creeping hours That lead me to my Lord : . Make Thou my spirit pure and clear As are the frosty skies, Or this first snowdrop of the year That in my bosom lies. As these white robes are...
Strana 155 - ... was reserved for Mother Teresa. The other sisters sat on trunks or chests, which completed the furniture of the apartment. In the evenings when they gathered together for recreation the room was illuminated by a "saveall"; that is, a vessel filled with grease from the pot skimmings of the kitchen. Yet not even this was used on moonlight nights; and if, at any time when the "save-all" was burning, the supply of grease that supported it gave out suddenly, the sisters contentedly sat in darkness...
Strana 113 - Keep my ordinances as I have delivered them to you : but if any man seem to be contentious, we have no such custom, nor the church of God.
Strana 364 - She was associated with many charitable organizations and clubs, and in 1891 was elected president of the board of lady managers of the World's Columbian exposition, and visited Europe in order to interest foreign governments in the fair.
Strana 297 - Although prepared for this meeting, I could not suppress my astonishment at the striking contrast produced in her person in a few hours ; my mind had for years associated death and her pale, emaciated face; a thrilling awe pervaded my whole frame. From that day to the present Mrs. Mattingly assures me she has enjoyed perfect health.
Strana 163 - The first house at Annecy had been suppressed during the French Revolution, and was not restored until 1822. The other houses in Europe...
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Strana 269 - Baxter pointed it out to me, and keeping my eye upon the steeple, a few minutes brought me to the door of the convent, at the west end of the town. Here, as directed, I opened the door without knocking, and entering a small passage pulled a bell, which brought a nun to the inside door, when I informed her of my business ; she directed me to step into a small room on my left, which she called the '
Strana 293 - ... her voice was very low — hardly audible. They moistened her lips and tongue, four or five times while I remained, with cold water in a teaspoon. I proposed to give her laudanum, her sister observed she had already taken two hundred and fifty drops during the evening. I left her at about half after ten o'clock, apparently in the jaws of death.
Strana 152 - Massachusetts, 1895, p. 156 et seq. this luxury could be allowed at all, it was carefully distributed in small pieces — one piece at the plate of each sister or child. Their coarse corn bread was divided in the same careful manner — a single slice to each person; and if any one found this insufficient, she had to endure the lack of more. In the sketch of the life of Mother Juliana Matthews it is related that, being Refectorian and at one time Dispenser, she had charge of giving out the provisions,...