“Because of what those three sisters taught me - about security, about love, about grace - I have constantly sought that in my life. Because of the great grace they gave to me, I look for that grace in every single person the Lord puts in my life. He has put women in my life who have become my sisters. My sisters in Christ who love me despite my sin, who hold me when I’m weeping, who laugh with me at the purest, most incredible times in my life, who walk with me even when I continue to stumble and fall behind..." continued

Continued: “...They wait for me, these women He’s given me. They seek me out, they call after me. Just like He does. We learn it all from Him. This beautiful circle of giving and taking in, it has been my life raft. This filling up by relationships both in Catholic sisters as well as our God, and this emptying into relationships, this is the give and take that makes my life more meaningful.”

“Helping one another is part of the religion of our sisterhood”

“The friendship we have is no ordinary friendship; it’s a friendship between souls. It was God who united our souls, and it is God who helps you to understand so many things that are incomprehensible to others, because, as I’ve said many times, He chose your soul. He loves you with a special love, and don’t forget that He expects a great deal from you because He has given you a great deal. He wants us to help each other become saints, and that’s why He made our souls in sympathy.”

“When Elizabeth heard Mary’s greeting, the infant leaped in her womb, and Elizabeth, filled with the holy Spirit, cried out in a loud voice and said, ‘Most blessed are you among women, and blessed is the fruit of your womb. And how does this happen to me, that the mother of my Lord should come to me? For at the moment the sound of your greeting reached my ears, the infant in my womb leaped for joy. Blessed are you who believed that what was spoken to you by the Lord would be fulfilled.’”