Kathryn Lopez
Philadelphia’s Archbishop Ryan was dying. He asked Mother Katharine Mary Drexel if she had ever prayed the Our Father in honor of the Passion. According to the book Katharine Drexel: A Biography, by Sr. Consuela Maria Duffy, S.B.S. (the order she founded, the Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament), she shook her head no and he took a crucifix in his hand and said:
Not a bad way prayer for focusing these next 20 days of Lent.
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