To be able to rise with a cheerful heart while the Angelus’ chimes do ring;
To be able to offer thanks and prayers for the blessings the day will bring;
To be able to meet my sisters all with a greeting kind and gay;
To be able to do my duty well through the hours of the live-long day,
Help me God.
To be able to seek and find the good every kindness to be done;
To be able to meet temptation’s lure and make sure that the battle’s won;
To be able to help all those in need, most the timid, poor, and weak’;
To be able with patience, cheer, and love, only Christian words to speak,
Help me God.
To be able to do my daily work with my soul a-singing a song;
To be able to frown away a frown, and to smile when all goes wrong;
To be able to bring some happiness into hearts where ‘tis unknown;
To be able to lighten my sister’s cross while resignedly carrying my own,
Help me O God.
As a tribute to the Past State Regents of Texas, the State Memorial Scholarship Fund was established to aid in the higher education of members and family members of Texas Catholic Daughters. With enrollment the recipient will be remembered for the period of one year in the Holy Mass offered the First Friday of each month by the State Chaplain.
With Gratitute to Terrie Vacek for her work on Texas CDA history.
In addition to the information obtained from the Past State Regents of Texas, court members, and their families, other information in this report came from the following resources.
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas, ‘A Century in Review’, by Bernard L. Marthaler & Carol Dorr Clement
The Catholic Daughters of the Americas ‘1960 ~ Golden Anniversary in Texas’ program by Mrs. A. J. Rohan and James T. Carter
National ‘Daughters of Isabella Herald’, February, 1917
Texas Catholic University Archives, Austin
Photo, ‘Old Ways Won’t Open New Doors’ from the American English Center
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