'Show me your Way' which is a detailed account of Anne Marie Javouhey's life story.The following is an brief synopsis of her work.

" It's not just in our life time that parents started having trouble managing their children,or children coping with
their parents! And it's not just in our day that young people find it hard to be hard to be sure what their life's work is to be"
Sister Francis then looks at the Javouhey's.The father Balthasar and his wife who had seven children.They lived in four rooms with an attic above and a cellar below.This was a cosy living in a rural area of Chamblanc,Burgundy. Baltasar the father thought his life predictable. His sons would
be farmers and the daughters farmers' wives.However things did not turn out the way Baltasar expected.His eldest son was
in love with Nicolle Littlejohn and was going to marry her.This meant one worker less on his farm.His other son Peter was fourteen and John Baptist another son was delicate and died at seventeen.Baltasar thought that little girls were lovable but got in the way of farm work.He wanted them out of the way of ploughs and horses. However Anne,his pride and joy,was charming,good-looking,extravagant
fun loving,the darling of the family.. Anne was also strong and able for
farm work. She was intelligent and fit to managed and to hire help.Baltasar the father thought his life predictable. His sons would be farmers and the daughters farmers' wives.

Anne the Giver.
Later in her life Anne recounted that it was on the land watching nature that she got 'many graces,especially her vocation.The underground church needed help.The year 1795 saw the end of the worst religious persecution.Priests were still liable to be arrested and mass was said undercover and only at night.Giving her life and her heart to God does not mean a girl loves people less.
On the contrary,the love-power in the human being comes to its full warmth only when she has given her heart totally to God,and because he wants it so to the service of other people.Her poor father was upset when Anne became a school teacher and as for Anne the nun! Intolerable.He wanted her with him in the fields working.

From these beginnings grew Mother Javouhey's life's work which was to become greater than she could have dreamed. Cluny sisters were asked by the Government to take charge of all schools in the French Colonies and so it came about that Cluny started the missionary work which it still continues in Africa,India,islands of the Indian Ocean,West Indies,South America, etc.Mother Javouhey herself spent 14 years in the mission lands. When she died in 1851 there were 1,000 members in the institute.

She lived by the following:

" To evangelise,to set free,to show care,to educate,to establish and African priesthood"such were the plans of Mother Javouhey. Her Sisters of Cluny carry on her work all over the world to this day.Below is a ohotograph of Burgundy.