Figuring out what God wants from you can feel really confusing, but St. Francis Xavier Cabrini shows us how it’s done. Her gift for discerning and submitting to God’s will makes her an amazing role model for modern women and men.

It’s a little funny that “discerning God’s will” is such an opaque prospect for many of us, because this approach is “entirely foreign to the great tradition of the Church,” as one writer puts it. Let’s take common sense and Church teaching as our guides, so that we avoid “an over-devotion to Our Lady of Perpetual Discernment.”