Blessed Columba Marmion, the saintly  Abbot of Maredsous, Belgium, who became friends with the Poor Clares of Cork, wrote to them:  “I say private Mass in my oratory, (for my family and friends, and spiritual children); and you are in that Mass… You see, neither time, nor space, can separate hearts united in Jesus Christ. Jesus is so good.  He takes on Him not only our sins, but all our miseries and sufferings, makes them His own; and as such they cry out, as the voice of His Only Begotten Son to the Father, to obtain mercy for all.”                            - Letter of December 17, 1921