Friendship

 

 

What is A friendship?

The dictionary defines it as...

friend·ship (frndshp):

1. The quality or condition of being friends.

2. A friendly relationship: I formed many new friendships over the summer.

3. Friendliness; good will: a policy of friendship toward other nations.

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Quotes 

" Faithful friends are beyond price: No amount can balance their worth"

- Bible ( Old Testament ) Sirach 6:15

 "Those who live in the Lord never see each other for the last time."

-Anonymous

 "A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you forget the words."

-Unknown

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St. Philippine Duchesne's Dream

When Philippine Duchesne was a little girl she learned arithmetic, literature, geography, history, and writing, from tutors who came to her home. She learned about Catholicism from her mother, Rose. Philippine Duchesne had always dreamed of traveling to distant lands in her childhood. She fulfilled her dream when she traveled to America with many other nuns by boat. Her knowledge from her childhood helped her to open a log cabin school in St. Charles. Finally, when she was seventy one years old, she was able to teach the Potowatami Indians. They were very impressed with her and they nicknamed her "the woman who prays always". This is an example of one of the many friendships she had experienced.

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Friends At Heart

St. Madeleine Sophie Barat and St. Philippine Duchesne had a lot in common. They were both fortunate enough to get a boy's education and learn Latin. St. Phillippine Duchesne first became friends with St. Madeleine Sophie Barat when she joined the Society of the Sacred Heart in December 1804. She met Madeleine Sophie Barat in Grenoble because Madeleine was the founder of the Society. Many times during the next eleven years, Philippine shared with Madeleine Sophie Barat her dream of teaching the American Indians. They both loved to help children, the poor, and The Schools of The Sacred Heart. When Philippine traveled to America, she and St. Madeleine Sophie stayed friends by writing letters, but even more by staying connected at heart and in the work that they did. This was very important because a letter took months to travel between them.

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The Story of The Pocket Money

 

"Through out most of the seventeenth century, Catholic charitable associations in Grenoble shared the common assumption of the well-to-do that poverty went hand-in hand with sin and vice."

- Catherine M. Mooney, R.S.C.J A

Woman With The Poor

When St. Philippine Duchesne was a young girl, her parents gave her some pocket money. Excited, she went and gave all her money away to the poor.

"That is your pleasure money!" her parents told her, "Do something else with it."

"This is my pleasure!" Philippine said. This shows how thoughtful Philippine was.

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Times Spent

Philippine and her friend would spend their afternoons visiting people less fortunate.

During the revolution many innocent priests were executed.

The night before they were killed Philippine and her friend would visit them and give them bread.

Because of her work with the Church she was able to make many friends.

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The Sacred Heart Friendship Girls

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Links to pages on the life and times of St. Philippine Duchesne below


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