Life of Mother Magdalene Daemen, : foundress of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Christian Charity / based upon M Paula Munster’s German edition, "History of the Franciscan Sisters" ; by W J Metz . wn by a few lines she inserted in the abovementioned letter. Everything, she says, is pro-gressing favorably under Gods guidance. . Evenour financial condition is improving. We have alreadypaid 1,200 dollars of the purchase sum. Father van der Zandt, on the other hand, was some-times so far from feeling over-confident that he appre-hended for the future. For this reaso
Life of Mother Magdalene Daemen, : foundress of the Congregation of the Franciscan Sisters of Penance and Christian Charity / based upon M Paula Munster’s German edition, "History of the Franciscan Sisters" ; by W J Metz . wn by a few lines she inserted in the abovementioned letter. Everything, she says, is pro-gressing favorably under Gods guidance. . Evenour financial condition is improving. We have alreadypaid 1,200 dollars of the purchase sum. Father van der Zandt, on the other hand, was some-times so far from feeling over-confident that he appre-hended for the future. For this reason, he recordsin his chronicle, I applied once to the superior of theconvent at Arendonck, near Antwerp, and requested acomplete union between her organization and ours, hop-ing thereby to forestall a final ruin of Mother Magda-lenes institution. This happened towards the end of1837. My plan appeared, however, not to be Gods superior of Arendonck, acting under the advice ofthe Very Rev. Provincial, positively declined the pro-posed absorption of our community. Sister Magdaleneherself never lost confidence in Divine Providence, andalways remained true to her motto: God will provide,and God really has First Year in Religious Life 105 These last words of Father van der Zandt have beenmore than verified since they were chronicled, now morethan seventy years ago. In truth, no one can read thesechapters and compare Mother Magdalenes days of strug-gle for existence with the present condition of her spiri-tual family without being forced to admit: God hashelped. It was not in His design that the incipientcloister on the heath should become a dependency ofArendonck. St. Elizabeths herself was to become theparent of numerous convents, and Mother Magdalenethe spiritual mother of thousands of devoted daughters. The work progressed quietly but safely under her wiseguidance. In 1838, at the expiration of the lease, thewhole manor came into the exclusive possession of the
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