Blessed Maria Schinina was born on this date in 1844 in Italy, and died on June 11, 1910.
Maria came from a wealthy family, and was somewhat of a clotheshorse and a social butterfly. She especially loved to dance. She showed no real signs of adopting her parents’ example of charity for the less fortunate.
Then, when Maria
was twenty-one, her father died, and she started thinking less about the whirl of this world, and more about God and the next. After several more years, she stripped down her own life, began ministering to the poor, and eventually founded the Sisters of the Sacred Heart of Jesus of Ragusa.
Blessed Maria Schinina said: “Let that which served my vanity go to the poor.”
What is serving your vanity—physically, mentally, or emotionally? How can you disengage yourself from it?
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