Soulfirethe story of collaboration.

Dedicated toThe memory of Sister Patrice Murray,Who, in 2003, asked me to write about

Rosalie Rendu.

Here’s to you, Sister Patrice, who believedin me as no other friend ever has believed

in me and my talents.Sister Patrice Murray, gone to God in 2009,

this is in your honor.-Alma/gh

This is the story of fire,

that settles in the soul, and will not

leave.

This is thestory of

Soulfire.

Meet a Daughter of Charityof St. Vincent de Paul.

Meet aDaughterof Charity

onfire.

Meet:“Soulfire” S!ter Rosalie Rendu

How did you do it, Sister Rosalie?

How did you make it happen--

The chid care center,The clinic,

The pharmacy,The school,

The orphanage,The youth club

How did you make it happen?

Who were you, Sister Rosalie Rendu?

Just who were you?

“No one, just a simple Daughter of Charity,”

she would say, “No one else.”

But the power you had, such force, such

reach--

“Not me,”she would say, “all of us, all of us.”It is we the peoplewho help the people:We Daughters of Charity,We the Vincent de Paul Society,We the Ladies of Charity.It is We who serve; it is we who support; it is we who reach.

It is all of us together and none of us apart.

Collaborationis

everything!

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“Our service began simply”

Rosalie would say...

“There were onlytwo or three sistersin the beginning...

Yet...”

We have built a Community of Service.

All of us together is ever so much stronger than any one of us apart.

WE arean Army of Charity

reaching everywhere,across the barricades,within the houses, down the streets,

Bringing the wealthof the richto help and become theHope of the Poor.

presentation byGeorgia Hedrick

used with permission