As foundress of a missionary institute that would send its members to distant and foreign places she knew she needed to form women who would risk living with hardship, misunderstandings, possible failures and retain their own inner wholeness and capacity to keep on giving of themselves.
They need to be women with a deep interior life.
She gave them Christ in his Eucharistic presence as the centre and strength of their daily lives and their missionary activities.
"In his gift of life poured out for us the Christ whom we contemplate sends us out to their brothers and sisters in whom we discover his hidden presence and our brothers and sisters send us back to the contemplation of Christ."
She also gave them the Franciscan way of living the gospel, by building bridges of communion between different peoples, different cultures, different religions, and the Gospel, and between groups within and without the church.
Women called to love and to willing assume the risk of siding preferably with the poor and the marginalised.
"In the midst of the world following Christ, the humble poor man, simply, peacefully and with joy"