Spirituality: The merciful love of the Good Shepherd for women in need.
Reflection: Rose Virginie Pelletier joined the Sisters of Our Lady of Charity, founded
by St. John Eudes to help women and girls in difficulty, and took the name Mary
Euphrasia. As superior at Angers she founded the Congregation of Our Lady of Charity
of the Good Shepherd, which spread with astonishing speed; by her death it had more
than a hundred houses on several continents. She taught her sisters that one soul is
worth more than the whole world. Pope Pius XII canonized her in 1940. Euphrasia
shows the heart of the Good Shepherd, who goes after the lost sheep.