World Gratitude Day
We choose to sow gratitude around us to honour those in our lives who have made a difference
Gratitude can be learned. Since ancient Rome, it has been considered ‘not only the greatest of all virtues, but the mother of all others’ (Cicero, orator, philosopher and politician who died in 43 BC). 
(Photo:Marco Tullio Cicerone)
This, we might say, is echoed in the encouragement to cultivate gratitude, especially in that ‘Show gratitude’ of the Apostle Paul (Colossians 3:15) who was
born in Tarsus in 4 A.D., died in Rome between the years 64 and 67 A.D., and who ‘thanked God unceasingly’ (1 Thessalonians 2:13) for the positive reaction others had to his message.(Image: San Paolo)
As for us at BP, we are aware that the value of gratitude is one of the most precious and prophetic aspects of the legacy of our Foundress St. Mary Euphrasia: “gratitude is the memory of the heart”.
Image: Santa Maria Eufrasia
Today, to honour the memory of those who, like Saint Mary Euphrasia, made a difference in our lives, we are called to sow gratitude: to make, in our Mission, every encounter with each other and with the other – especially the most vulnerable, children, women, migrants, the elderly, all victims exposed to loneliness, selfishness, horrors and epochal injustices – an experience filled with experiences of personal dignity, of hope in the good that, despite adverse circumstances, can always flourish.
To (r)exist humanly in a society overwhelmed by the chaos of indifference...
LET'S MAKE A DIFFERENCE
#makeadifference
generating appreciation and gratitude!
