Blessed Feast of St. Angela Merici

St. Angela Merici would agree with my spiritual advisor. When someone asks you to do a good work and you know it isn’t the work to which you were called, just say “That’s a very good work; it’s just not my good work.”

Pope Clement VII asked St. Angela Merici to become the head of a religious order. One problem with this great honor – the order was a nursing order. And Angela knew that God had called her to something else.

It is very appropriate to celebrate the Feast of St. Angela Merici during Catholic Schools Week, for this great saint was the first woman to teach girls outside of the walls of the cloister. She went into the community and gathered together girls from families who could not afford to send their daughters to the cloister for an education. By doing this, she changed the entire schema of Catholic education and opened the doors of literacy to impoverished girls. She didn’t merely say no to a good work. She said yes to the right work.

Go and do likewise.

(Eventually, she became the foundress of the Ursulines.)

Blessed Feast of St. Angela Merici