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CD-6-2017 LaboureSociety.org BRIDGE TO MIRACLES 651.452.1160 National Chaplain’s Message Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan Y DEAR of some moment in your life or some person you CATHOLIC encountered where, at the time, it seemed like a small MDAUGHTERS, thing had happened but now you realize God has done It is the size of a great things as a result. If so, thank God for such a pinhead, yet full of blessing! Even if you cannot think of such a moment, possibility that is nearly consider your baptism. In this simple ceremony, inconceivable to us: a your parents and godparents stood on your behalf tiny mustard seed – all and welcomed you into God’s family through the of about 1 millimeter in pouring of water. Through this seemingly small act, Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan diameter – will grow into you were cleansed of Original Sin and welcomed into Archbishop of New York a mighty tree, sometimes National Chaplain the Church and the life of grace, the first steps along a as high as ten feet tall, lifetime journey of following Jesus. where the birds will take shelter and build their nests. Your involvement in the Catholic Daughters of You have probably heard this parable of the mustard the Americas is great evidence of the fruitfulness seed many times before, and it is recounted in three of the seed! All of the works of prayer and service of the four Gospels as one way that Jesus explains the that you participate in show how the Kingdom of Kingdom of God. As spring moves into summer, shall God continues to spread. So I ask you to consider yet we reflect on this beautiful parable for a few moments? another question: is there a way that your words and Have you ever been in a situation where it seemed actions might be an opportunity for God to plant a like the odds of success were stacked against you – a mustard seed in the life of another? Do not hesitate to real long shot? That’s probably how the Apostles felt ask God for the grace to help His kingdom grow! at various times as they walked with Jesus and after Ultimately, the parable of the mustard seed shows His Ascension into heaven. After all, how much can us the power of God, something we proclaim in the twelve people really accomplish? However, guided by Creed when we call Him Almighty. Just as a tiny the Holy Spirit and motivated by the desire to do as seed can become a great tree, so can the Kingdom Jesus had taught them, the Apostles did far more than of God reach the ends of the earth after starting out they ever imagined and now there are over one billion as a message entrusted to a small band of followers people who have heard the message of the Gospel in the Middle East. The good news is that we are the that they proclaimed. Talk about a tiny mustard seed recipients of God’s love and blessings here on earth, growing into a great tree! just as the birds who make their nest in the mustard The same is true for the saints who have gone before tree. The challenging news is that we are called not us. Just think of our beloved St. Teresa of Calcutta, just to enjoy the shade, but to also do our part to help a woman who was determined to share the love of the kingdom grow, so that even more people come to Christ with those forgotten and unwanted by society experience the love of God. in Calcutta, and whose Missionaries of Charity now Thank you for all the wonderful work you do as have over 5,000 sisters in 139 countries. When the Catholic Daughters, and may God continue to bless Missionaries of Charity were founded by Mother you and your families. Teresa in 1950, you might say they were a mustard- seed-sized group of – you guessed it – twelve sisters. Faithfully in Christ, If the parable of the mustard seed helps us see that the Kingdom of God is something that starts small but grows into something great, it can also help us Timothy Michael Cardinal Dolan consider the ways in which God is working a similar Archbishop of New York transformation in our own lives. Maybe you can think National Chaplain CATHOLICDAUGHTERS.ORG 1 Summer 2017 Volume 47 | Number 3 National Chaplain His Eminence Timothy Cardinal Dolan New York National Clergy Consultant Rev. Jeffrey Maurer New York National Officers National Regent Helene Shepard • New York National Regent-Elect Olga Samaniego • Texas First Vice National Regent Sherry Nilles • Iowa 8 Second Vice National Regent Amen I say to you Vickie Feist • South Dakota National Secretary-Treasurer Emily Guilherme • California 9 The Mustard Seed National Directors Carolyn Bachmann M. Susan Hicks Arlene Rich Texas Wisconsin Connecticut 13 Carol Bogacz Rose Holschlag Marialice Sagan Families Growing West Virginia Iowa Michigan In Faith Together Peggy Guckin Susan Moné Essie Walker Pennsylvania Arizona North Carolina 14 National Office Mustard Seed Executive Director Mary Impellizeri Giving Us Tolerance SUMMER 2017 AbouttheCover From humble www.catholicdaughters.org beginnings great things grow. 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Maurer, National Clergy Consultant ESUS’ USE OF THE MUSTARD SEED IMAGE IN The Catholic Daughters are a small branch in the larger HIS PARABLE ABOUT THE KINGDOM OF GOD Church, but they must continue to be strong not just to Jpacks a powerful punch. All of that potential in an serve others, but to serve God. Similarly, that same growth almost invisibly tiny seed! must continue with the joyful urgency that is on continual Certainly he must’ve seen in his Divine foreknowledge display in the readings during the Easter Season. Over the the Catholic Church today in her vastness both in next months, some of the state and national leaders will distance and in numbers. The “before and after” picture receive a small, pocket size 20 Year Calendar which forces of the vastness of the church today and the small little us to look beyond this month, this year, and even this life band gathered around the seashore in Galilee could not to see how we can inspire a joyful urgency to bring souls be more striking. After the Ascension, Jesus commands to Christ and His Church, especially through the efforts his disciples to go out, to spread, and to share the gospel..