April 11, 2016
![Sr. Olga Arias visits a family of nine, including seven children, in early March in rural Cuba. It can be daunting to transmit the values of the church when families are focused on day-by-day survival, she said. (CNS photo / Rhina Guidos)](http://dev.globalsistersreport.org/files/stories/images/CNS-CubaFamily%20%281000x715%29.jpg)
“A human being is a vessel that God has built for himself and filled with his inspiration so that his works are perfected in it.”
- St. Hildegard von Bingen, OSB (1098-1179), German abbess who was gifted in writing music and poetry and wrote and illustrated a number of theological and medicinal texts, from a letter to Elisabeth of Schönau, c. 1152