Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska was born in what is now Ukraine on November 20, 1869, and died on this date in 1919.
Josaphata’s plan was to enter a cloistered order of women religious. But there was pressing need for women to minister to ethnic Ukrainians in the area, which was then part of Austria-Hungary. The population’s physical and spiritual needs were very underserved.
Josaphata was just twenty-two years old, but after a discernment period agreed to serve as the first superior of the newly formed Congregation of the Sister Servants of Mary Immaculate, whose members ministered to the larger community.
Blessed Josaphata Hordashevska said, “Educate the heart of the people, and serve where the need is the greatest.”
Consider how you can meet Josaphata’s challenge: What can you do to educate people’s hearts, and what need that is going unmet that you can remedy in some small way?
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