The works of charity

Love is simple, “it is like a fire spreading” and changing everything that it touches. Magdalene identifies the most pressing needs of her society. She creates the schools of charity, introduces new strategies for catechesis in the parish and increasing the time given. She also organizes groups of volunteers to assist the sick, in particular those abandoned. To further promote education she prepares young girls as country teachers, and invites ladies of the nobility to become transformed by the Word of God and by prayer. Magdalene of Canossa, transformed by the Love she contemplated in Jesus Crucified, assumes with courage the work of charity and becomes creative in rendering love real and accessible to all, particularly the poor. These are the five “branches of charity” that bring into flower the tree of God’s reign on earth. These are the same activities the Canossians of today continue in various parts of the world.