Theme
Witnesses on children
Witnesses who watched over children, or who prayed the way you pray at that age: without detour.
A few words
If I can easily discuss the shortcomings and the sins of any; if I can speak in a casual way even of a child's misdoings, then I know nothing of Calvary love.
If these words are true, I shall not leave this land until I have spread your Rosary here.
I am the cloth, you are the tailor: take me and make of it a fine garment for the Lord.
Despite efforts that sapped my health and crushed my strength, I did not surrender for one day to anyone who resisted or envied me. Birds peck only at ripe fruits.
Ah, how good the good God is.
Long live Christ the King.
All 33 witnesses on children
- Amy Carmichael Peace found in acceptance, when the body gives out and love carries on.
- Anna Bartlett Warner The certainty of being loved, said in a child's words.
- Anna Wang The simple, unshakable faith of a young person who already knows to whom she belongs.
- Anthousa d'Antioche The voice of a mother who dares to say what she carries, without demanding anything.
- Antonietta Meo The trust of a child who speaks to God as to a friend, and offers even pain without drama.
- Bartolo Longo The turning around of a life given over to the dark; repeated prayer as a way of rebuilding.
- Cecil Frances Alexander Saying the highest things in words a child can carry.
- Chiara Corbella Petrillo Trust that welcomes life as it comes, and looks at everything in the light of eternity.
- Clément d'Alexandrie Faith that runs through the ordinary day, down to its plainest gestures.
- Dhuoda de Septimanie Prayer held across distance, when love can only write and entrust the absent one to God.
- Dominique Savio Holiness at a teenager's height; cheerfulness held to be part of the road.
- Emmélie de Césarée Offering God what one holds dearest, by naming it to him.
- Eric Liddell Staying useful where one is shut in, and believing that nothing is lost.
- Eurosia Fabris The hidden holiness of a home, woven of work and patience.
- Gabriela Mistral Tenderness for those who are not one's own, and each day's work carried in prayer.
- Habib Guirguis Patient stubbornness in the service of beginners; handing on the faith as a whole life's work.
- Jacinta Marto A child's prayer for the world, the simple offering of small sorrows.
- Jean Bosco Joyful patience with beginners; authority exercised only through affection.
- Jean Donovan Staying with the little ones when the reasonable thing would be to leave.
- José Sánchez del Río A child's faithfulness stronger than fear, the gladness of self-gift.
- Julie Billiart Unshakeable trust in the goodness of God, held even through the ordeal of the body.
- Kuriakose Elias Chavara Prayer that takes flesh in education and the life of families.
- Louis Martin A fatherhood that gives its children away without holding them back; the faith of a man stripped even of his dignity.
- Madeleine-Sophie Barat The education of the heart, patient and humble, in the service of one as of all.
- Marguerite Bourgeoys To serve without withdrawing from the world, in the manner of the Virgin who goes out toward others: a prayer with hands and roads.
- María de la Luz Camacho Standing in front of the door, unarmed, because that was where you happened to be.
- Marie-Alphonsine Ghattas Constant prayer that takes flesh in teaching the lowly.
- Marie-Dominique Mazzarello The work of one's hands turned into prayer, simple gladness as a path to God.
- Mary McLeod Bethune Bequeathing what one did not receive, so that others may have it.
- Nano Nagle The dogged service of the little ones in the dark, a light carried where faith is hindered.
- Susanna Wesley Prayer held amid domestic noise, a space kept for God when nothing is quiet.
- Thérèse de Lisieux Love as vocation. Sanctity at the height of a child.
- Zélie Martin Holiness in an overloaded daily life: work, children, bereavements, and a trust that holds everything together.