Editing Catherine Doherty (section)

==Spirituality (selected aspects)==
===''The Little Mandate''===
The core of Doherty's spirituality is summarized in a distillation of the gospel which she called "The Little Mandate"—words which she believed she received from [[God]].<ref>Gugliemi, ''Dissertation, 16-19''</ref> It reads:

{{blockquote|Arise — go! Sell all you possess. Give it directly, personally to the poor. Take up My cross (their cross) and follow Me, going to the poor, being poor, being one with them, one with Me.

Little — be always little! Be simple, poor, childlike.

Preach the Gospel with your life — ''without compromise!'' Listen to the Spirit. He will lead you..

Do little things exceedingly well for love of Me.

Love... love... love, never counting the cost

Go into the marketplace and stay with Me. Pray, fast. Pray always, fast.

Be hidden. Be a light to your neighbour's feet. Go without fear into the depth of men's hearts. I shall be with you. Pray always.

''I will be your rest.''}}

=== ''The Vision of the Whole'' ===
"The vision of the whole," she wrote, "is that every task, routine or not, is of redeeming value because we are united with Christ."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Doherty |first=Catherine de Hueck |title=The People of the Towel and the Water |publisher=Madonna House Publications |year=1991 |isbn=1897145101 |location=Combermere, Ontario |pages=18}}</ref> All life is thus related to the gospel, to "loving [one's] Beloved"<ref>{{Cite book |last=Wild |first=Robert |title=Love, Love, Love |publisher=Alba House |year=1989 |location=Staten Island |pages=56}}</ref> through service to one's neighbor. Through doing little things with intense love, the world is restored to its creator, to God.<ref>Gugliemi ''(Dissertation),'' 79</ref> Human existence, for her, was "a lifelong love affair with God, whereby the human creature continuously responds to this God who first loved us."<ref>Gugliemi (''Dissertation),'' 82</ref>

=== ''Breathing with Both Lungs of the Church'' ===
"I knew in the depths of my heart that, humble and unimportant as I was, a simple refugee from Russia, I too had a share in the healing of this [division]. How it was to be healed, I did not know, except, perhaps, by trying to live my Eastern spirituality and sharing whatever I could with my fellow Roman Catholics."<ref>Doherty, Catherine, Staff Letter #209, January 6, 1967.</ref>