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Rh working one. I do not mean by this that you shall separate yourself from your people to work solely for this, though there are thousands of orders where great and good work is done by women who are called by God to do this work, but I am talking to you who are in the world and of the world, and who, each in your own way, can make that world better.

Just take a day of your life and work it out. You get up a little late, and if you stop to say the long prayers that you usually do you can't help the children to dress. What ought you to do? Kneel down for a minute and reverently ask God's help during the day, and thank Him for His care during the night. Then go to your work. Don't do it sullenly, don't do it as if it were a trouble, but do it cheerfully as a sister should. Later on different duties arise, and do not shirk one. I feel like saying many times that there is nothing so pleasing to God as work that is done cheerfully; it is a prayer, a very rosary of deeds. Try throughout the day to speak the kindly word, and be charitable even in your thoughts. If you have time to be alone for a little while, then the book you are fond of, or the prayer you wish to say can be attended to, but