Bishop Reflections – Feast of Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini | Bishop Espaillat

Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini wanted to serve as a missionary in the East. When the Holy Father asked her to go West, she answered the call. She founded schools, hospitals and places of refuge for the poor and for immigrants, and the Church continues that work today through Catholic Charities and many other organizations. On her feast day, Most Rev. Joseph A. Espaillat, Auxiliary Bishop of the Archdiocese of New York, shares how a 1904 letter from Mother Cabrini on anxiety and prayer stays with him and why her defense of the poor and immigrants is needed now. Her shrine in New York City, where he has prayed since his years as a seminarian, remains a place where many immigrants ask for her intercession. Saint Frances Xavier Cabrini, pray for us!