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Full Text of ReadingsSaturday of the Third Week of Easter Lectionary: 278The Saint of the day is Saint Damien de Veuster of MolokaiSaint Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i's Story When Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy, Hansen's disease. By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. They knew that human compassion could soften the ravages of this disease. Forced to quit school at age 13 to work on the family farm, Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May 1864, two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the Hawaiian government's leper colony on the island of Moloka'i, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support. Soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Damien contracted Hansen's disease and died of its complications. As requested, he was buried in Kalaupapa, but in 1936 the Belgian government succeeded in having his body moved to Belgium. Part of Damien's body was returned to his beloved Hawaiian brothers and sisters after his beatification in 1995. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, it selected Damien as one of its two representatives in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009. Reflection Some people thought Damien was a hero for going to Moloka'i and others thought he was crazy. When a Protestant clergyman wrote that Damien was guilty of immoral behavior, Robert Louis Stevenson vigorously defended him in an “Open Letter to Dr. Hyde.” Love the saints? Check out these six titles on Catholic saints! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

St. Damien de Veuster (of Molokai), Priest (Optional Memorial)

Saturday of the Third Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary and was assigned to the Hawaiian Islands; in 1873, he went to the government's leper colony on Molokai, and volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people’s physical, medical, and spiritual needs; Damien contracted Hansen's disease--i.e., leprosy--himself, and died of its complications Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/25 Gospel: John 6:60-69

En Kalawao, de la isla de Molokai, San Damián de Veuster, presbítero de la Congregación de Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de María, entregó su vida a la asistencia material y espiritual de los leprosos, terminando él mismo contagiado de esta enfermedad, pues se fue a la isla a donde mandaron a todos los leprosos para que no contagiaran. Es el patrón de los leprosos, marginados, enfermos de sida y del Estado de Hawáii.Con tu ayuda podremos continuar con este proyecto: https://www.paypal.com/donate/?hosted_button_id=GZMHJDMXG8L22&fbclid=PAZXh0bgNhZW0CMTEAAabzPiBLoj2NefLbiwGBbXS1Ckn9xG8o9stwEGRXwQnsnoRllvac_CUJ_cU_aem_oPr5pU3Gmbo2qA3t6j-zkg

Full Text of ReadingsThursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 314The Saint of the day is Saint Marianne CopeSaint Marianne Cope's Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the woman who came to be known as Mother Marianne of Molokai. Her courage helped tremendously to improve the lives of its victims in Hawaii, a territory annexed to the United States during her lifetime (1898). Mother Marianne's generosity and courage were celebrated at her May 14, 2005, beatification in Rome. She was a woman who spoke “the language of truth and love” to the world, said Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes. Cardinal Martins, who presided at the beatification Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, called her life “a wonderful work of divine grace.” Speaking of her special love for persons suffering from leprosy, he said, “She saw in them the suffering face of Jesus. Like the Good Samaritan, she became their mother.” On January 23, 1838, a daughter was born to Peter and Barbara Cope of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. The girl was named after her mother. Two years later the Cope family emigrated to the United States and settled in Utica, New York. Young Barbara worked in a factory until August 1862, when she went to the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York. After profession in November of the next year, she began teaching at Assumption parish school. Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation. A natural leader, three different times she was superior of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, where she learned much that would be useful during her years in Hawaii. Elected provincial in 1877, Mother Marianne was unanimously re-elected in 1881. Two years later the Hawaiian government was searching for someone to run the Kakaako Receiving Station for people suspected of having leprosy. More than 50 religious communities in the United States and Canada were asked. When the request was put to the Syracuse sisters, 35 of them volunteered immediately. On October 22, 1883, Mother Marianne and six other sisters left for Hawaii where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu; on the island of Maui they also opened a hospital and a school for girls. In 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there. The Hawaiian government was quite hesitant to send women for this difficult assignment; they need not have worried about Mother Marianne! On Molokai she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys. Mother Marianne changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony. Bright scarves and pretty dresses for the women were part of her approach. Awarded the Royal Order of Kapiolani by the Hawaiian government and celebrated in a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mother Marianne continued her work faithfully. Her sisters have attracted vocations among the Hawaiian people and still work on Molokai. Mother Marianne died on August 9, 1918, was beatified in 2005, and canonized seven years later. Reflection The government authorities were reluctant to allow Mother Marianne to be a mother on Molokai. Thirty years of dedication proved their fears unfounded. God grants gifts regardless of human shortsightedness and allows those gifts to flower for the sake of the kingdom. Click here for more on Saint Marianne Cope! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Thursday of the Second Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Marianne Cope, 1838-1918; born in Germany; her family migrated and settled in Utica, New York, in 1840; she entered the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York, in 1862; in 1883, she and six sisters left for Hawaii; in 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there; she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys; Mother Marianne changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony; her sisters still work on Molokai Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/23/25 Gospel: Mark 3:7-12

After ragging on people who surely don't deserve the veneration they receive from faithful Christians around the world, for their questionable morality, or even dubious historicity, it's time for us to look at a heptad of saints who are genuinely good role models--at least on the surface....For these saints (as opposed to Teresa of Calcutta), poverty was an obstacle to be overcome, rather than a virtue to perpetuate. We preach power through education, and so did these seven reasonably good saints.Angela Merici was a Venecian with no recorded miracles, but people insisted that she was a saint because of the work she did to support the public education of young people.Elizabeth Seton was a big fan of public education, and used her great fortune to support young people in their pursuit to better their lives. Seton was the first American Saint.Vincent de Paul has a wild story of slavery and alchemy, and he went on to do everything he could to raise people out of poverty, and support young people to get vocational training.Father Damien (Jozef de Veuster) was a servant of the people in a Hawaiian leper colony, where he gave his life in service of his fellow men.Katharine Drexel, the second American Saint, spent her fortune setting up schools for BIPOC students all over the United States of America.Elizabeth of Hungary was a princess with some wild and dubious miracles, but she spent her short life in her own hospital where she cared for the poor and the sick.John Bosco wrote an awful lot, but he also worked with young men to help get them reliable and profitable work. All this and more.... Support us on Patreon or you can get our merch at Spreadshop.Join the Community on Discord.Learn more great religion factoids on Facebook and Instagram.

Today's Topics: 1) Gospel - John 16:20-23 - Jesus said to His disciples: "Amen, amen, I say to you, you will weep and mourn, while the world rejoices; you will grieve, but your grief will become joy. When a woman is in labor, she is in anguish because her hour has arrived; but when she has given birth to a child, she no longer remembers the pain because of her joy that a child has been born into the world. So you also are now in anguish. But I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you. On that day you will not question Me about anything. Amen, amen, I say to you, whatever you ask the Father in My Name He will give you." Memorial of Saint Damien Joseph de Veuster of Moloka'i, Priest Memorial of Saint John of Avila Saints Damien and John, pray for us!Bishop Sheen quote of the day 2) The demon militates toward absurdity https://cforc.com/2024/05/the-demon-militates-toward-absurdity/ 3) LifeSite News hopes to launch "Christ is King" billboard campaign with your help https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/lifesitenews-hopes-to-launch-christ-is-king-billboard-campaign-with-your-help/ 4) Sister Deirdre Byrne: The battle for life best fought in a state of grace to "more easily see God's will" https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/sr-deirdre-byrne-the-battle-for-life-best-fought-in-a-state-of-grace-to-more-easily-see-gods-will/?utm_source=latest_news&utm_campaign=usa

Full Text of ReadingsFriday of the Sixth Week of Easter Lectionary: 295The Saint of the day is Saint Damien de Veuster of MolokaiSaint Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i's Story When Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy, Hansen's disease. By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. They knew that human compassion could soften the ravages of this disease. Forced to quit school at age 13 to work on the family farm, Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May 1864, two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the Hawaiian government's leper colony on the island of Moloka'i, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support. Soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Damien contracted Hansen's disease and died of its complications. As requested, he was buried in Kalaupapa, but in 1936 the Belgian government succeeded in having his body moved to Belgium. Part of Damien's body was returned to his beloved Hawaiian brothers and sisters after his beatification in 1995. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, it selected Damien as one of its two representatives in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009. Reflection Some people thought Damien was a hero for going to Moloka'i and others thought he was crazy. When a Protestant clergyman wrote that Damien was guilty of immoral behavior, Robert Louis Stevenson vigorously defended him in an “Open Letter to Dr. Hyde.” Love the saints? Check out these six titles on Catholic saints! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

St. Damien de Veuster (of Molokai), Priest (Optional Memorial)

- Father Edward 5-10-24

Friday of the Sixth Week of East Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; went to the Hawaiian Islands in 1864 as a member of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; in 1873, he went to the leper colony on the island of Molokai, and volunteered to remain indefinitely; soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage, and morale improved considerably; Damien himself contracted Hansen's disease (leprosy) and died of complications Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/24 Gospel: John 16:20-23

"Todo por amor, sin guardarse nada"

En Kalawao, de la isla de Molokai, San Damián de Veuster, presbítero de la Congregación de Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de María, entregó su vida a la asistencia material y espiritual de los leprosos, terminando él mismo contagiado de esta enfermedad, pues se fue a la isla a donde mandaron a todos los leprosos para que no contagiaran. Es el patrón de los leprosos, marginados, enfermos de sida y del Estado de Hawáii.

Każdy z nas, podobnie jak ziarno, ma w sobie potencjał do przemiany i przynoszenia obfitych plonów, ale wymaga to pewnego rodzaju „obumierania” – czyli gotowości do wyrzeczenia się egoizmu, wygody, a czasem nawet własnych planów czy ambicji na rzecz czegoś większego.Usłyszycie historię Mari Stromberger – Anioła z Auschwitz oraz historię ojca Damiana który pojechał na Wyspę Przeklętych - wyspę Molokai. w zamyślenia o zaufaniu Bogu wprowadzi nas też historia majora wojsk amerykańskich, który doświadczył ochrony przez „przeciwności życiowe”. Deszcz który utrudniał i wręcz uniemożliwiał mu misję wojskową okazał się błogosławieństwem bo wypłukał piasek i odkrył pole minowe jakie groziło poruszającym się żołnierzom. To zaufanie jest niezbędne, by móc obumierać jak ziarno pszenicy i przez to przynosić dobro, by powiedzieć "Boże działaj w moim życiu".Zapraszamy na odcinek pod tytułem: Bądź jak ziarno a Bóg da wzrost 5 niedziela Wielkiego postu rok B Tu informacje jak przekazać 1,5% swojego podatku

Full Text of ReadingsTuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Lectionary: 318The Saint of the day is Saint Marianne CopeSaint Marianne Cope's Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the woman who came to be known as Mother Marianne of Molokai. Her courage helped tremendously to improve the lives of its victims in Hawaii, a territory annexed to the United States during her lifetime (1898). Mother Marianne's generosity and courage were celebrated at her May 14, 2005, beatification in Rome. She was a woman who spoke “the language of truth and love” to the world, said Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes. Cardinal Martins, who presided at the beatification Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, called her life “a wonderful work of divine grace.” Speaking of her special love for persons suffering from leprosy, he said, “She saw in them the suffering face of Jesus. Like the Good Samaritan, she became their mother.” On January 23, 1838, a daughter was born to Peter and Barbara Cope of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. The girl was named after her mother. Two years later the Cope family emigrated to the United States and settled in Utica, New York. Young Barbara worked in a factory until August 1862, when she went to the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York. After profession in November of the next year, she began teaching at Assumption parish school. Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation. A natural leader, three different times she was superior of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, where she learned much that would be useful during her years in Hawaii. Elected provincial in 1877, Mother Marianne was unanimously re-elected in 1881. Two years later the Hawaiian government was searching for someone to run the Kakaako Receiving Station for people suspected of having leprosy. More than 50 religious communities in the United States and Canada were asked. When the request was put to the Syracuse sisters, 35 of them volunteered immediately. On October 22, 1883, Mother Marianne and six other sisters left for Hawaii where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu; on the island of Maui they also opened a hospital and a school for girls. In 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there. The Hawaiian government was quite hesitant to send women for this difficult assignment; they need not have worried about Mother Marianne! On Molokai she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys. Mother Marianne changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony. Bright scarves and pretty dresses for the women were part of her approach. Awarded the Royal Order of Kapiolani by the Hawaiian government and celebrated in a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mother Marianne continued her work faithfully. Her sisters have attracted vocations among the Hawaiian people and still work on Molokai. Mother Marianne died on August 9, 1918, was beatified in 2005, and canonized seven years later. Reflection The government authorities were reluctant to allow Mother Marianne to be a mother on Molokai. Thirty years of dedication proved their fears unfounded. God grants gifts regardless of human shortsightedness and allows those gifts to flower for the sake of the kingdom. Click here for more on Saint Marianne Cope! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Tuesday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Optional Memorial of St. Marianne Cope, 1838-1918; born in Germany, came to the United States two years later with her family, and settled in Utica, New York; she worked in a factory until 1862, and then joined the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York; in 1883, Mother Marianne and six other sisters left for Hawaii where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu; on the island of Maui they also opened a hospital and a school for girls; in 1888, she and two sisters went to Molokai and opened a home for women and girls; she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys; she changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/23/24 Gospel: Mark 3:31-35

Today's Topics: 1) Gospel - Jn 15:1-8 - Jesus said to His disciples: "I am the True Vine, and My Father is the Vine Grower. He takes away every branch in Me that does not bear fruit, and everyone that does He prunes so that it bears more fruit. You are already pruned because of the word that I spoke to you. Remain in Me, as I remain in you. Just as a branch cannot bear fruit on its own unless it remains on the vine, so neither can you unless you remain in Me. I am the Vine, you are the branches. Whoever remains in Me and I in him will bear much fruit, because without Me you can do nothing. Anyone who does not remain in Me will be thrown out like a branch and wither; people will gather them and throw them into a fire and they will be burned. If you remain in Me and My words remain in you, ask for whatever you want and it will be done for you. By this is My Father glorified, that you bear much fruit and become My disciples." Memorial of Saint Damien Joseph de Veuster of Moloka'i, Priest Saint Damien, pray for us! Bishop Sheen quote of the day 2, 3) Interview with Patrick O'Hearn on his book: Courtship of the Saints: How the Saints Met Their Spouses 4) Update with Church Militant on news as it relates to the Church & Culture

Full Text of ReadingsWednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter Lectionary: 287   The Saint of the day is Saint Damien de Veuster of MolokaiSaint Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i's Story When Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy, Hansen's disease. By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. They knew that human compassion could soften the ravages of this disease. Forced to quit school at age 13 to work on the family farm, Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May 1864, two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the Hawaiian government's leper colony on the island of Moloka'i, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support. Soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Damien contracted Hansen's disease and died of its complications. As requested, he was buried in Kalaupapa, but in 1936 the Belgian government succeeded in having his body moved to Belgium. Part of Damien's body was returned to his beloved Hawaiian brothers and sisters after his beatification in 1995. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, it selected Damien as one of its two representatives in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009. Reflection Some people thought Damien was a hero for going to Moloka'i and others thought he was crazy. When a Protestant clergyman wrote that Damien was guilty of immoral behavior, Robert Louis Stevenson vigorously defended him in an “Open Letter to Dr. Hyde.” Love the saints? Check out these seven titles on Catholic saints! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

St. Damien de Veuster (of Molokai), Priest (Optional Memorial)

Join Father Kevin Drew as he preaches on this Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter and Memorial of Saint Damien Joseph de Veuster of Moloka'i, priest.  Today's readings First Reading: Acts 15:1-6 Psalm: Ps 122:1-2, 3-4ab, 4cd-5 Gospel: Jn 15:1-8 Catholic Radio Network

San Damián de Veuster (de Molokai), Presbítero (Memoria Libre)

Wednesday of the Fifth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; born in Belgium joined the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; went to the Hawaiian leper colony on Molokai in 1873, and remained permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs; contracted Hansen's disease himself, and died of its complications Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/23 Gospel: John 15:1-8

"Todo por amor, sin guardarse nada"

May 10: Saint Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i, Priest (U.S.A.) 1840–1889 Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: White Patron Saint of those suffering leprosy A joyful celibate brings hope and dignity to the walking dead It is often just one decision that releases the bolt, opening the door to a new life. The first step down a new road of a thousand smaller steps begins with one choice—to board the ship or to stand on the dock, to accept the marriage proposal or to wait for another, to sign the document or to leave it blank. Without that first choice, a different life would have been lived. Everyone, at some point, stands at this crossroad. But an impulse must be obeyed or rejected for untold other events, decisions, and influences to begin to unwind. This is one of the mysteries of life, how so much depends on one brief moment. Young Jozef De Veuster (Damien was his religious name), growing up in a large family in rural Belgium, could never have imagined where and how his life would end. He was most likely going to follow the path of most other young men of his time and place—get married, have a family, go to Mass on Sunday, and take over the family farm. But an older brother was a priest, and two sisters were nuns, so a religious vocation was always a possibility. Damien eventually responded to the Lord's call and his own impulse toward religious life and entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, just as his brother did before him. But just as his brother, Father Pamphile, was slated to leave for Hawaiʻi as a missionary, he had to abandon his voyage for health reasons. And thus a decision had to be made. A pivot point had arrived. Was Damien to replace his brother and go to Hawaiʻi or not? Leave family forever or stay home? Be a foreign missionary or stay among his own? Brother Damien walked the long plank upward and boarded the ship. He arrived in Honolulu in March 1864 and was ordained a priest in May. He would live his entire priestly life in Hawaiʻi. He never left the Hawaiʻian islands again. Father Damien served in parishes for several years, learning to love his parishioners and being loved by them in return. Then, in 1873, the bishop asked for volunteers to go to an isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. Father Damien volunteered. For the next sixteen years, he dedicated himself without reserve to this exiled community. He carried out more than a “ministry of accompaniment.” He accompanied, yes, but he also led, taught, inspired, and died to self. Father Damien's robust health and farm background made hard work natural. He enlarged a chapel and built a rectory, a road, a dock, and numerous cottages for the lepers. He showed the people how to farm, to raise cattle, and to sing (despite his diseased vocal cords), and to play instruments (despite his missing fingers). He was a vital force walking in a living graveyard. Life on an isolated leper colony was psychologically difficult for everyone, even the priest. But Father Damien brought faith and human dignity to a depressed population alienated from family and society. He treated the sick and the dying—and everyone was sick and dying—with the dignity of children of God. A proper cemetery was organized, funeral Masses were said with the accompaniment of a choir, and solemn processions bore everyone to their final resting place. This was a far cry from the inhuman chaos that preceded his arrival. Father Damien carried out all of his pastoral work with fatherly concern. He was there, after all, because he was a celibate priest. No married Protestant minister would have dared to place himself, his wife, and his children in such a dangerous situation, and none ever did. Like all good fathers, Father Damien was both joyful and demanding. He was open. He smiled. He cared. He scolded. His source of strength was not merely his solid foundation in human virtue but primarily his Catholic faith. Father Damien's love for the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary deepened through the years. His greatest non-physical sufferings were the lack of a priest companion with whom he could converse and to whom he could confess his sins. Father Damien contracted leprosy after eleven years in the colony. He personally never wrote to his mother with the news. But when the old widow in Belgium learned of her son's illness, she died of a broken heart. Father Damien lived five years with leprosy, continuing his priestly work, and died in 1889 at the age of forty-nine. He was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 after two medical miracles were attributed to his divine intervention. Saint Damien of Moloka'i, intercede on behalf of all fathers to make them ever more generous in serving without reserve the families they head, making your life not only a source of inspiration, but also of emulation, to all who know of your heroic generosity.

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TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ https://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7371SUOR MARIANNA, UNA VITA DEDICATA AI LEBBROSI DELLE HAWAII di Antonio Borrelli ed Emilia FlocchiniBarbara Koob nacque il 23 gennaio 1838 a Heppenheim in Germania, figlia di Peter Koob e Barbara Witzenbacher, agricoltori. Nel 1840, quando lei aveva due anni, la sua famiglia emigrò negli Stati Uniti, stabilendosi nella città di Utica, nello Stato di New York. Suo padre cambiò il cognome da Koob a Cope, dopo aver ottenuto la cittadinanza americana, il che comportava l'estensione della stessa all'intera famiglia.Da adolescente, Barbara prese a lavorare in una fabbrica per dare un a mano ai bisogni della famiglia, cresciuta nel frattempo di altri tre fratelli e con il padre invalido. Frequentando la Scuola parrocchiale di San Giuseppe a Utica, poté ricevere la Prima Comunione nel 1848.In quest'ambiente fiorì la sua vocazione allo stato religioso, ma tale desiderio dovette essere accantonato, perché le condizioni economiche della famiglia non permettevano il suo allontanamento. Solo a 24 anni poté entrare nell'Istituto delle Suore del Terz'Ordine Francescano di Syracuse, dove, dopo il noviziato, emise la professione religiosa con il nome di suor Marianna.L'apostolato di quelle suore, fra l'altro, consisteva nell'educazione dei figli degli emigrati tedeschi. Suor Marianna, quindi, apprese la lingua originaria dei suoi genitori e fu incaricata di dirigere una nuova scuola specifica.Per le sue doti intellettuali e per la sua generosa dedizione svolse delicati incarichi nella sua Congregazione, fra i quali la cura dei poveri da lei prediletti, nei due ospedali di Santa Isabella a Utica e San Giuseppe a Syracuse (1869). Fu eletta Madre Provinciale nel 1877 e riconfermata all'unanimità nel 1881.Due anni dopo, nel 1883, era Madre generale quando le giunse una richiesta del vescovo di Honolulu, che a sua volta girava alle suore una petizione del re delle isole Sandwich, nell'Oceano Pacifico (le attuali Hawaii, 50° Stato degli USA dal 1959), il quale chiedeva di avere infermiere per i lebbrosi abbandonati del regno.La situazione era critica e già 50 comunità religiose avevano rifiutato la petizione reale. Un religioso, padre Damiano de Veuster, aveva scelto di vivere in quelle condizioni precarie, ma faceva presente che sarebbero state necessarie delle suore.I malati, strappati dai familiari e dai loro villaggi, venivano portati nell'isola di Molokai, dove non esistevano edifici idonei né assistenza sanitaria. Si sarebbe dovuto costruire un ospedale e soprattutto instaurare una severa terapia igienica generale, specie per i figli più piccoli dei lebbrosi, che avevano seguito le madri ed erano bisognosi di educazione.Madre Marianna scelse sei suore fra le 25 che si erano offerte e partì con loro per fondare una Missione delle Suore del Terz'Ordine Francescano nelle Sandwich; le accompagnò prima a Honolulu e poi a Molokai. Collaborò quindi con il governo locale a istituire ospedali in varie isole dell'arcipelago.Padre Damiano, che aveva contratto la lebbra nel 1884, venne assistito dalle suore come gli altri malati: morì nel 1889. Tutto il lavoro organizzativo passò a madre Marianna, la quale, anche per le minacce delle altre suore di tornarsene con lei in America, dovette restare a Molokai per salvare la Missione e dimettersi dal suo incarico.Non tornò più in America e restò a servire i lebbrosi per quasi 30 anni. Fondò due case separate per i figli dei lebbrosi, tenuti nella più grande igiene, così che una volta adulti potessero essere inseriti sani nella società.Madre Marianna di Molokai, come ormai veniva chiamata, conosceva uno per uno i malati e li chiamava per nome. Li istruiva a coltivare quell'arida terra facendo spuntare arbusti, fiori e alberi, ma soprattutto ridonando loro la dignità di esseri umani non più emarginati e inutili. Gli storici la descrissero come «una religiosa esemplare con un cuore straordinario». Morì a Molokai il 9 agosto 1918 a 80 anni, di morte naturale.

En Kalawao, de la isla de Molokai, San Damián de Veuster, presbítero de la Congregación de Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de María, entregó su vida a la asistencia material y espiritual de los leprosos, terminando él mismo contagiado de esta enfermedad, pues se fue a la isla a donde mandaron a todos los leprosos para que no contagiaran. Es el patrón de los leprosos, marginados, enfermos de sida y del Estado de Hawáii.

VIDEO: Molokai l'isola maledetta ➜ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mxd1-KjrK30&list=PLolpIV2TSebVM7CoAHtiTvbPX4t2opTUUTESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ https://www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=7369SAN DAMIANO DE VEUSTER NON EBBE PAURA DI PORTARE CRISTO AI LEBBROSI DI MOLOKAIFiglio di contadini fiamminghi, dopo la scuola primaria nel suo paese, Damiano fu inviato a Braine-le-Comte per imparare la lingua francese. Seguendo le orme di uno dei suoi fratelli, entrò nel noviziato della Congregazione dei Sacri Cuori a Lovanio assumendo il nome di Damiano: dopo gli studi teologici e filosofici a Parigi, emise i voti perpetui il 7 ottobre 1860: suo fratello non poté realizzare il desiderio di viaggiare attivamente come missionario all'estero e Damiano fece suo il sogno del fratello.Il 19 marzo 1864, padre Damiano sbarcò nel porto di Honolulu, dove rimase a svolgere la sua missione: fu ordinato sacerdote il 24 maggio 1864 presso la Cathedral Basilica of Our Lady of Peace (Nostra Signora della Pace, a Honolulu), una chiesa fondata dal suo ordine religioso.Prestò servizio pastorale presso diverse parrocchie sull'isola di Oahu proprio mentre il regno delle Hawaii stava affrontando un periodo particolarmente difficile dal punto di vista sanitario: i commercianti stranieri ed i marinai avevano introdotto nell'arcipelago numerose nuove malattie che la popolazione locale non era in grado di affrontare. Migliaia di persone morirono a causa di mali come l'influenza e la sifilide, ma anche a causa di una grave epidemia di lebbra. Re Kamehameha IV relegò i lebbrosi del regno in alcune colonie situate nel nord dell'isola di Molokai.Padre Damiano nel 1865 fu assegnato alla Missione cattolica del nord Kohala, ma chiese al vicario apostolico, monsignor Luigi Maigret, il permesso per andare a Molokai.MOLOKAI, COLONIA DI MORTENel 1870 padre Damiano assunse il suo ruolo di sacerdote e medico dei lebbrosi nelle colonie: il 10 maggio 1873 arrivò presso la colonia di Kalaupapa.Il primo impatto con la realtà di Molokai fu terrificante: non esisteva nessuna legge, donne e bambini erano costretti alla prostituzione, i malati venivano abbandonati senza cure in una specie di ospedale dove i medici erano lebbrosi a loro volta, i morti erano lasciati insepolti.Il vescovo Maigret presentò Damiano ai coloni come un padre, e aggiunse, che li avrebbe amati a tal punto che non avrebbe esitato a divenire uno di loro: "vivere e morire con loro". I lebbrosi che vivevano nella colonia di Kalaupapa erano oltre 600. La prima cosa che fece Damiano fu di costruire una chiesa e di stabilire la parrocchia di Santa Filomena. Passava per i villaggi battezzando e promuovendo il culto al SS.mo Sacramento, del quale diceva: "Senza la presenza costante del nostro Divino Maestro nella mia povera cappella, io non avrei mai potuto perseverare, condividendo la mia sorte con quella dei lebbrosi di Molokai".Non fu solo un sacerdote; svolse bene anche il ruolo di dottore: curò ulcere, costruì case e letti, costruì bare e scavò tombe. Quella di Kalaupapa è stata definita una "colonia di morte", dove molte persone furono costrette a lottare per sopravvivere, dimenticate dal governo: l'arrivo di Damiano fu considerato una svolta per la comunità.Sotto la sua direzione, la comunità si dotò di leggi che regolassero la vita comune, costruì capanne e case decorose anche esteticamente, eresse scuole e creò fattorie, costruì cappelle, un orfanotrofio, refettori e dormitori.CAVALIERE DELL'ORDINE DI KALĀKAUARe Kalākaua delle Hawaii insignì padre Damiano del grado di Commendatore dell'Ordine reale di Kalākaua I e, quando la principessa Lili'uokalani visitò la colonia per consegnargli le insegne dell'onorificenza, rimase profondamente turbata nel vedere lo stato in cui vivevano i lebbrosi, tanto che non riuscì a completare il discorso ufficiale.Fu proprio la principessa a far conoscere al mondo i meriti del religioso: la sua fama si diffuse in Europa e negli Stati Uniti ed anche i protestanti americani e la Chiesa d'Inghilterra elargirono grandi somme di denaro per il missionario.Nel dicembre del 1884 Damiano, mettendo a bagno i suoi piedi nell'acqua calda, non poté sentirne il calore: si accorse così di aver contratto la lebbra.Nonostante la scoperta continuò a lavorare attivamente per portare a fine i suoi progetti fino alla morte: fu raggiunto comunque da quattro collaboratori: il sacerdote Luigi Lambert Conrardy, madre Marianna Cope, superiora delle suore francescane di Syracuse, Joseph Dutton, soldato americano in congedo, ritiratosi a causa di un matrimonio fallito per alcolismo e James Sinnett, infermiera di Chicago.Padre Damiano morì di lebbra nel 1889, all'età di 49 anni: fu prima seppellito a Molokai. Fu riportato in patria soltanto nel 1936 dalla goletta Mercator e il suo corpo fu trasferito a Lovanio (Belgio) vicino al villaggio in cui nacque.Padre Damiano è stato beatificato a Bruxelles da papa Giovanni Paolo II il 3 giugno 1995 e canonizzato da papa Benedetto XVI l'11 ottobre 2009.

Full Text of ReadingsDay of Prayer for the Legal Protection of Unborn Children Lectionary: 317The Saint of the day is Saint Marianne CopeSaint Marianne Cope's Story Though leprosy scared off most people in 19th-century Hawaii, that disease sparked great generosity in the woman who came to be known as Mother Marianne of Molokai. Her courage helped tremendously to improve the lives of its victims in Hawaii, a territory annexed to the United States during her lifetime (1898). Mother Marianne's generosity and courage were celebrated at her May 14, 2005, beatification in Rome. She was a woman who spoke “the language of truth and love” to the world, said Cardinal José Saraiva Martins, prefect of the Congregation for Saints' Causes. Cardinal Martins, who presided at the beatification Mass in St. Peter's Basilica, called her life “a wonderful work of divine grace.” Speaking of her special love for persons suffering from leprosy, he said, “She saw in them the suffering face of Jesus. Like the Good Samaritan, she became their mother.” On January 23, 1838, a daughter was born to Peter and Barbara Cope of Hessen-Darmstadt, Germany. The girl was named after her mother. Two years later the Cope family emigrated to the United States and settled in Utica, New York. Young Barbara worked in a factory until August 1862, when she went to the Sisters of the Third Order of Saint Francis in Syracuse, New York. After profession in November of the next year, she began teaching at Assumption parish school. Marianne held the post of superior in several places and was twice the novice mistress of her congregation. A natural leader, three different times she was superior of St. Joseph's Hospital in Syracuse, where she learned much that would be useful during her years in Hawaii. Elected provincial in 1877, Mother Marianne was unanimously re-elected in 1881. Two years later the Hawaiian government was searching for someone to run the Kakaako Receiving Station for people suspected of having leprosy. More than 50 religious communities in the United States and Canada were asked. When the request was put to the Syracuse sisters, 35 of them volunteered immediately. On October 22, 1883, Mother Marianne and six other sisters left for Hawaii where they took charge of the Kakaako Receiving Station outside Honolulu; on the island of Maui they also opened a hospital and a school for girls. In 1888, Mother Marianne and two sisters went to Molokai to open a home for “unprotected women and girls” there. The Hawaiian government was quite hesitant to send women for this difficult assignment; they need not have worried about Mother Marianne! On Molokai she took charge of the home that Saint Damien de Veuster had established for men and boys. Mother Marianne changed life on Molokai by introducing cleanliness, pride, and fun to the colony. Bright scarves and pretty dresses for the women were part of her approach. Awarded the Royal Order of Kapiolani by the Hawaiian government and celebrated in a poem by Robert Louis Stevenson, Mother Marianne continued her work faithfully. Her sisters have attracted vocations among the Hawaiian people and still work on Molokai. Mother Marianne died on August 9, 1918, was beatified in 2005, and canonized seven years later. Reflection The government authorities were reluctant to allow Mother Marianne to be a mother on Molokai. Thirty years of dedication proved their fears unfounded. God grants gifts regardless of human shortsightedness and allows those gifts to flower for the sake of the kingdom. Click here for more on Saint Marianne Cope! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

Monday of the Third Week in Ordinary Time Saint of the Day: St. Marianne Cope; as provincial of the Sisters of the Third Order of St. Francis in Syracuse, New York, she led a team to Hawaii to run the receiving station for those suspected of having leprosy; opened a hospital and school for girls on the island of Maui; opened a home for "unprotected women and girls" on Molokai, where she also took charge of the home that St. Damien de Veuster had established for boys Day of prayer for the full restoration of the legal guarantee of the right to life and of penance for violations to the dignity of the human person committed through acts of abortion Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 1/23/23 Gospel: Mark 3:22-30

January 23: Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin (U.S.A.)1838–1918Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of Hawaiʻi, lepers, outcasts, and sufferers of HIV/AIDSShe learned generosity at home and lived it her whole lifeToday's saint was a model female Franciscan who emulated Saint Francis' heroic example of personally caring for the outcasts of all outcasts—lepers. Saints are not born, of course; they are made. And Saint Marianne Cope came from a specific time, place, and family. She could have developed her abundant talents in many directions and used them for many purposes, but she re-directed what God loaned her to serve Him, His Church, and mankind. The Church, the Franciscans, and Hawaiʻi were the arenas in which this elite spiritual athlete exercised her skills. She was asked for much and gave even more. She became a great woman.Marianne Cope was born in Germany and was brought to New York state by her parents when she was still a baby. She was the oldest of ten children. Her parents lived, struggled, and worked for their kids. She saw generosity in action at home every day. She quit school after eighth grade to work in a factory to financially support her ailing father, her mother, and her many siblings. The challenges inherent to immigration, a new culture, illness, a large family, and poverty turned Marianne into a serious, mature woman when she was just a teen. Marianne fulfilled her long-delayed desire to enter religious life in 1862. Once professed, she moved quickly into leadership positions. She taught in German-speaking Catholic grade schools, became a school principal, and was elected by her fellow Franciscans to positions of governance in her Order. She opened the first hospitals in her region of Central New York, dedicating herself and her Order to the time-honored religious vocation of caring for the sick, regardless of their ability to pay for medical services. She was eventually elected Superior General. In her early forties, she was already a woman of wide experience: serious, administratively gifted, spiritually grounded, and of great human virtues. But this was all mere preparation. She now began the second great act of her drama. She went to Hawaiʻi.In 1883 she received a letter from the Bishop of Honolulu begging her, as Superior General, to send sisters to care for lepers in Hawaiʻi. He had written to various other religious Orders without success. Sister Marianne was elated. She responded like the prophet Isaiah, saying, “Here am I; send me!” (Is 6:8). She not only sent six sisters, she sent herself! She planned to one day return to New York but never did. For the next thirty-five years, Sister Marianne Cope became a type of recluse on remote Hawaiʻi, giving herself completely to the will of God.Sister Marianne and her fellow Franciscans managed one hospital, founded another, opened a home for the daughters of lepers, and, after a few years of proving themselves, opened a home for women and girls on the virtually inaccessible island of Molokai. Here her life coincided with the final months of Saint Damien de Veuster. Sister Marianne nursed the future saint in his dying days, assuring him that she and her sisters would continue his work among the lepers. After Father Damien died, the Franciscans, in addition to caring for the leprous girls, now cared for the boys too. A male Congregation eventually relieved them of this apostolate.Sister Marianne Cope lived the last thirty years of her life on Molokai until her death in 1918. She was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 and canonized by him in 2012. She loved the Holy Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, and the Church. And because she loved God first, she loved those whom God loves, her brothers and sisters in Christ. She sacrificed for them, left home and family for them, put her health at risk for them, and became a saint through them.Saint Marianne Cope, help us to be as generous as you were in serving those on the margins, those who need our help, and those who have no one else to assist them. You were a model Franciscan in dying to self. Help us to likewise die so that we might likewise live.

October 5: Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, Priest (U.S.A.)1819–1867Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhiteInvoked against cancerA good man becomes a great priest serving immigrants in the young United StatesShip after ship, riding low in the water with the weight of thousands of European immigrants, docked in the harbors of the great coastal cities of the United States in the nineteenth century. Transatlantic ship passage was by then routine and relatively safe. These immigrants traveled to America's open prairies and virgin forests to carve out farms, charter towns, and establish schools where none had ever existed before. These daring men and women came to build new lives, lives often of deep faith. So priests and nuns came with them, planting the seeds of an ancient religion into fresh soil.Today's Blessed was one of those immigrants. Francis Seelos was born into a large family in Bavaria, a land thick with medieval castles, crusader tombs, and timeless traditions. Francis left that rich culture for a new life on the American frontier. He exhausted himself riding horseback, walking, and traveling by ferries and trains up and down and across the wide flowing rivers and narrow dirt roads of the young United States, serving new citizens but age-old Catholics.Blessed Francis felt the call to the Priesthood from a young age. He had the support of his family and local clergy and duly studiedphilosophy and theology from some distinguished professors in his native land. One of his Benedictine teachers was the pioneer who later brought the Benedictine Order to America. By accidents of history, the Redemptorist Order, though founded in Italy by an Italian, had become more prominent in Germany. Francis met Redemptorist priests during his education and became intrigued with their work among the immigrants who had emptied out swathes of Germany to go to America. So Francis joined the Redemptorists with the specific intention of serving the many priest-less German Catholics across the ocean.It was not easy for Francis to leave his close-knit family. Only his father knew his secret plan. Only his father knew that Francis' departure for the seminary would be the last time he would ever leave home. Francis embraced his mother and siblings and said goodbye. He then came to his father, who, wordless, tearfully gestured with his finger toward the sky. Son and father knew. They would meet again in heaven. Francis never saw his family again.Francis arrived in New York in 1843 and was ordained a priest in 1844 in Baltimore, Maryland. He was first assigned to a parish in Pittsburg, and then was assigned to serve alongside Saint John Neumann, a fellow Redemptorist. They carried out ordinary parish duties and gave parish missions. Father Francis quickly gained a reputation as holy, always available, amiable, and wise. Like Neumann, he became well known as a sage confessor who exercised this ministry of mercy in multiple languages.Father Francis' apostolic zeal, prudence, kindness, and doctrinal integrity thrust him into positions of leadership in his order. He was so skilled a priest, and so admired for his virtue, that he was proposed to be the Bishop of Pittsburgh. Francis only narrowly avoided this exalted burden by personally writing to Pope Pius IX arguing for his own inadequacy. After years of priestly service in America's eastern portion, Francis became an itinerant German and English preacher in the nation's middle, crisscrossing Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri.In 1866 Father Francis was assigned to New Orleans, where he continued his tireless, uncomplaining priestly service, and where his prayers were considered unusually efficacious. But in New Orleanshis service came to an end. He contracted yellow fever while visiting some of its victims. He died at 48 years old, but not before at least one miracle of healing was attributed to his intercession while he lay dying. His cause was opened in 1900, and Francis Seelos was beatified in 2000 by Pope Saint John Paul II. This priest par excellence stands shoulder to shoulder with Saints Marianne Cope, Damian de Veuster, John Neumann, Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini, and thousands of non-saint clergy and nuns, all nineteenth-century European immigrant missionaries to America. They each left things comfortable and known for their opposites. They each made immense personal sacrifices to pass on the faith, to give a new church new heroes.Blessed Francis Xavier Seelos, your zeal, intelligence, and innate goodness was plain for all to see. You were an ideal priest loved by all you encountered. Through your intercession, help all missionaries to persevere in their difficult vocations in unfamiliar lands.

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Full Text of ReadingsTuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Lectionary: 280All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint Damien de Veuster of MolokaiWhen Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy, Hansen's disease. By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. They knew that human compassion could soften the ravages of this disease. Forced to quit school at age 13 to work on the family farm, Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May 1864, two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the Hawaiian government's leper colony on the island of Moloka'i, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support. Soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Damien contracted Hansen's disease and died of its complications. As requested, he was buried in Kalaupapa, but in 1936 the Belgian government succeeded in having his body moved to Belgium. Part of Damien's body was returned to his beloved Hawaiian brothers and sisters after his beatification in 1995. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, it selected Damien as one of its two representatives in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009. Reflection Some people thought Damien was a hero for going to Moloka'i and others thought he was crazy. When a Protestant clergyman wrote that Damien was guilty of immoral behavior, Robert Louis Stevenson vigorously defended him in an “Open Letter to Dr. Hyde.” Love the saints? Check out these seven titles on Catholic saints! Saint of the Day, Copyright Franciscan Media

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Tuesday of the Fourth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai, 1840-1889; born in Belgium, he arrived in Hawaii in 1864; went to the leper colony on Molokai in 1873, and volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical and spiritual needs; contracted Hansen's disease (formerly known as leprosy) himself, and died of its complications Office of Readings and Morning Prayer for 5/10/22 Gospel: John 10:22-30

4th Week of Easter Saint Damien de Veuster of Molokai, priest Gospel: Jn 10:22-30 22At that time the festival of the Dedication took place in Jerusalem. It was winter, 23and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the portico of Solomon. 24So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are the Messiah, tell us plainly.” 25Jesus answered, “I have told you, and you do not believe. The works that I do in my Father's name testify to me; 26but you do not believe, because you do not belong to my sheep. 27My sheep hear my voice. I know them, and they follow me. 28I give them eternal life, and they will never perish. No one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 What my Father has given me is greater than all else, and no one can snatch it out of the Father's hand. 30The Father and I are one.” We encounter again in today's Gospel the mysterious interplay between divine causality and human freedom, a common feature in the Bible. God's unfathomable wisdom brings about a certain situation. But at the same time, humans too, of their own accord, put themselves into that situation. From this perspective, accepting or rejecting Jesus is not purely a human decision, but something that mysteriously results from God's action. No one can come to Jesus unless drawn by the Father (cf. Jn 6:44, 65). But God can also harden the human heart, making a person deaf to the words of Jesus and blind to his deeds. Some sheep belong to Jesus as the Father's gift to him. But there are also other sheep that do not belong to him and, thus, refuse to follow him. The Gospel's consoling assurance to us, who believe in Jesus and belong to his flock, is that of being securely held in the hands of both Jesus and the Father. Lord Jesus, in these uncertain times, it means a lot to know that no one Can snatch us from the Father's and your protective hold. Amen.

"Todo por amor, sin guardarse nada"

May 10: Saint Damien de Veuster of Moloka'i, Priest (U.S.A.)1840–1889Optional Memorial; Liturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of those suffering leprosyA joyful celibate brings hope and dignity to the walking deadIt is often just one decision that releases the bolt, opening the door to a new life. The first step down a new road of a thousand smaller steps begins with one choice—to board the ship or to stand on the dock, to accept the marriage proposal or to wait for another, to sign the document or to leave it blank. Without that first choice, a different life would have been lived. Everyone, at some point, stands at this crossroad. But an impulse must be obeyed or rejected for untold other events, decisions, and influences to begin to unwind. This is one of the mysteries of life, how so much depends on one brief moment.Young Jozef De Veuster (Damien was his religious name), growing up in a large family in rural Belgium, could never have imagined where and how his life would end. He was most likely going to follow the path of most other young men of his time and place—get married, have a family, go to Mass on Sunday, and take over the family farm. But an older brother was a priest, and two sisters were nuns, so a religious vocation was always a possibility. Damien eventually responded to the Lord's call and his own impulse toward religious life and entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary, just as his brother did before him. But just as his brother, Father Pamphile, was slated to leave for Hawaiʻi as a missionary, he had to abandon his voyage for health reasons. And thus a decision had to be made. A pivot point had arrived. Was Damien to replace his brother and go to Hawaiʻi or not? Leave family forever or stay home? Be a foreign missionary or stay among his own? Brother Damien walked the long plank upward and boarded the ship. He arrived in Honolulu in March 1864 and was ordained a priest in May. He would live his entire priestly life in Hawaiʻi. He never left the Hawaiʻian islands again.Father Damien served in parishes for several years, learning to love his parishioners and being loved by them in return. Then, in 1873, the bishop asked for volunteers to go to an isolated leper colony on the island of Moloka'i. Father Damien volunteered. For the next sixteen years, he dedicated himself without reserve to this exiled community. He carried out more than a “ministry of accompaniment.” He accompanied, yes, but he also led, taught, inspired, and died to self. Father Damien's robust health and farm background made hard work natural. He enlarged a chapel and built a rectory, a road, a dock, and numerous cottages for the lepers. He showed the people how to farm, to raise cattle, and to sing (despite his diseased vocal cords), and to play instruments (despite his missing fingers).He was a vital force walking in a living graveyard. Life on an isolated leper colony was psychologically difficult for everyone, even the priest. But Father Damien brought faith and human dignity to a depressed population alienated from family and society. He treated the sick and the dying—and everyone was sick and dying—with the dignity of children of God. A proper cemetery was organized, funeral Masses were said with the accompaniment of a choir, and solemn processions bore everyone to their final resting place. This was a far cry from the inhuman chaos that preceded his arrival.Father Damien carried out all of his pastoral work with fatherly concern. He was there, after all, because he was a celibate priest. No married Protestant minister would have dared to place himself, his wife, and his children in such a dangerous situation, and none ever did. Like all good fathers, Father Damien was both joyful and demanding. He was open. He smiled. He cared. He scolded. His source of strength was not merely his solid foundation in human virtue but primarily his Catholic faith. Father Damien's love for the Mass, the Holy Eucharist, and the Virgin Mary deepened through the years. His greatest non-physical sufferings were the lack of a priest companion with whom he could converse and to whom he could confess his sins.Father Damien contracted leprosy after eleven years in the colony. He personally never wrote to his mother with the news. But when the old widow in Belgium learned of her son's illness, she died of a broken heart. Father Damien lived five years with leprosy, continuing his priestly work, and died in 1889 at the age of forty-nine. He was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI in 2009 after two medical miracles were attributed to his divine intervention.Saint Damien of Moloka'i, intercede on behalf of all fathers to make them ever more generous in serving without reserve the families they head, making your life not only a source of inspiration, but also of emulation, to all who know of your heroic generosity.

TESTO DELL'ARTICOLO ➜ www.bastabugie.it/it/articoli.php?id=6934I SIGNIFICATI DELL'ISOLA DEL TESORO E DOTTOR JEKYLL E MR. HYDE di Rino CammilleriMcGulisan strikes back. Si potrebbe cominciare così l'esposizione dell'ultima fatica del nostro medico-scrittore, che sarebbe ora di fare scozzese o irlandese ad honorem vista la sua vasta produzione in tema di opere di anglosassoni cattolici. Il suo più recente saggio è dedicato a Robert L. Stevenson, Louis per gli amici, uno che cattolico non era ma che meriterebbe, anche lui, l'affiliazione ad honorem per l'appassionata e gratuita difesa di un santo papista, san Damien de Veuster, l'apostolo dei lebbrosi. Robert Louis Stevenson. L'avventura nel cuore (Ares) è il titolo del lavoro di Paolo Gulisano, che è anche nostra firma.Stevenson si comportò da vero highlander, da antico cavaliere scozzese, quando, in Oceania, lesse un articolo di un pastore protestante che denigrava l'appena defunto padre de Veuster, il quale era morto di lebbra. Ebbene, il pastore aveva osato insinuare che quel prete papista aveva preso la lebbra andando a letto con le lebbrose. Per giunta, il calunniatore si chiamava Hyde, proprio come il cattivo del capolavoro di Stevenson. Quest'ultimo, indignato, prese la penna e inchiodò l'incauto. Come si era permesso, lui che a Molokai, l'isola-lazzaretto, non era mai stato? Invece Stevenson, gran viaggiatore, sì. E aveva sentito e soprattutto visto quel che aveva fatto il padre de Veuster in quell'inferno di dannati della terra. Stevenson è equanime: «Lo definisce imprudente, trasandato, mancante di igiene, ma grande nella sua generosità, nel suo candore e persino per il suo senso dell'umorismo». Ma aggiunge: «Un uomo con tutta la sporcizia e la meschinità dell'umanità, ma proprio per questo tanto più un santo e un eroe». Detto da un ex presbiteriano sostanzialmente agnostico.Nessun editore volle pubblicare il libello di Stevenson contro il pastore protestante e in difesa di un prete papista. E lui lo pubblicò a sue spese, devolvendo ai lebbrosi i profitti. Che non erano pochi, visto che il pamphlet fece il giro del mondo grazie alla fama del suo autore. Lealtà e giustizia sono tipici del segno dello Scorpione nel quale il nostro erano nato. E chi è che può vantare di avere scritto un romanzo, L'isola del tesoro, che è stato portato sullo schermo la bellezza di cinquanta volte (per ora)? Una delle migliori versioni vede Christian Bale (Batman) nei panni del ragazzo Jim Hawking e nientemeno che Charlton Heston in quelli di Long John Silver. La prima è addirittura del 1912. Non solo. Grazie a quel libro la «caccia al tesoro» è un gioco di società tra i più praticati. E chi è quell'autore che può essere annoverato anche tra gli scrittori per ragazzi? Si pensi a La freccia nera.E chi può essere annoverato tra i classici immortali anche per un altro capolavoro, Il dottor Jekyll e Mr. Hyde? Anche questo con diverse riduzioni cinematografiche, si pensi a quella storica con Spencer Tracy e Ingrid Bergman. Quest'ultima opera è dettagliatamente vivisezionata da Gulisano anche perché anticipa, mettendone in guardia, lo scientismo: il dottor Jekyll, oppresso dal senso del peccato (lievi trasgressioni, ma i protestanti non possono alleggerirsi con la confessione sacramentale), risolve che «là dove non era riuscita la virtù, l'osservanza della legge morale, poteva riuscire la scienza». E crea un intruglio chimico che lo separi dalla sua metà oscura. Sappiamo come va a finire. Gulisano fa a questo punto un'acuta osservazione: col positivismo «la scienza ufficiale volle disconoscere l'antica erboristeria medievale, troppo legata a conventi e monasteri - e quindi alla dimensione religiosa della cura della salute - per salassi e clisteri». Insomma, possiamo adottare Stevenson tra i cattolici «di desiderio» anche se non lo era. In fondo, non lo erano nemmeno C. S. Lewis e T. S. Eliot.

En Kalawao, de la isla de Molokai, San Damián de Veuster, presbítero de la Congregación de Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de María, entregó su vida a la asistencia material y espiritual de los leprosos, terminando él mismo contagiado de esta enfermedad, pues se fue a la isla a donde mandaron a todos los leprosos para que no contagiaran. Es el patrón de los leprosos, marginados, enfermos de sida y del Estado de Hawáii.

Saint Marianne Cope, Virgin1838–1918January 23—Optional Memorial USALiturgical Color: WhitePatron Saint of lepers, outcasts, those with HIV/AIDS, Hawaiʻi.An immigrant learns generosity in her large family, and practices it her whole lifeToday's saint was a model female Franciscan who emulated Saint Francis' heroic example of personally caring for those outcasts of all outcasts—lepers. Saints are not born, of course; they are made. And Saint Marianne Cope came from a specific time, place, and family. She could have developed her abundant talents in many directions and used them for many purposes, but she re-directed what God loaned her to serve and honor Him, His Church, and mankind. The Church, the Franciscans, and Hawaii were the arenas in which this elite spiritual athlete exercised her skills. She was asked for much and gave even more. She became a great, great woman.Marianne Cope was born in Germany and was brought to New York state by her parents when she was still a baby. She was the oldest of ten children. Her parents lived, struggled, and worked for their kids. She saw generosity in action at home everyday. She quit school after eighth grade to work in a factory to financially support her ailing father, her mother, and her many siblings. The challenges inherent to migration, a new culture, illness, a large family, and poverty turned Marianne into a serious, mature woman when she was just a teen. She fulfilled her long delayed desire to enter religious life in 1862. Once professed, she moved quickly into leadership positions. She taught in German-speaking Catholic grade schools, became a school principal, and was elected by her fellow Franciscans to positions of governance in her Order. She opened the first hospitals in her region of central New York, dedicating herself and her Order to the time-honored religious vocation of caring for the sick, regardless of their ability to pay for medical services. She was eventually elected Superior General. In her early forties she was already a woman of wide experience: serious, administratively gifted, spiritually grounded, and of great human virtues. But this was all preparation. She now began the second, great act of her drama. She went to Hawaii.In 1883 she received a letter from the Bishop of Honolulu begging her, as Superior General, to send sisters to care for lepers in Hawaii. He had written to various other religious Orders without success. Sister Marianne was elated. She responded like the prophet Isaiah, saying, “Here I am, send me” (Is 6:8). She not only sent six sisters, she sent herself! She planned to one day return to New York but never did. For the next thirty-five years, Sister Marianne Cope became a type of recluse on remote Hawaii, giving herself completely to the will of God.Sister Marianne and her fellow Franciscans managed one hospital, founded another, opened a home for the daughters of lepers, and, after a few years of proving themselves, opened a home for women and girls on the virtually inaccessible island of Molokai. Here her life coincided with the final months of Saint Damien de Veuster. Sister Marianne nursed the future saint in his dying days, assuring him that she and her sisters would continue his work among the lepers. After Father Damien died, the Franciscans, in addition to caring for the leprous girls, now cared for the boys as well. A male Congregation eventually relieved them of this apostolate. Sister Marianne Cope lived the last thirty years of her life on Molokai until her death in 1918. She was beatified by Pope Benedict XVI in 2005 and canonized by him in 2012. She loved the Holy Eucharist, the Virgin Mary, and the Church. And because she loved God first, she loved those whom God loves, her brothers and sisters in Christ. She sacrificed for them, left home and family for them, put her health at risk for them, and became a saint through them.Saint Marianne Cope, help us to be as generous as you were in serving those on the margins, those who need our help, and those who have no one else to assist them. You were a model Franciscan in dying to self. Help us to likewise die so that we might likewise live.

Cette première célébration de l'année est animée par la communauté dynamique, multiculturelle et familiale de la paroisse d'Epinay-sous-Sénart. Prédicateur : Fr. Yves Combeau, dominicain, conseiller éditorial du Jour du Seigneur Président : P. Jérémie Aka Alofa, curé

Le Père Stan Rougier propose, dans cet épisode diffusé spécialement pour la Toussaint, une méditation sur la sainteté. Pour sa quatrième participation à Zeteo, il ouvre ici une réflexion personnelle sur ce chemin auquel nous sommes tous appelés : Celui à vivre pleinement nos vies, en communion avec un Dieu qui nous devance et nous accompagne tout le long de notre parcours. Le Dieu du véritable amour qui nous conduit à la joie : Celle qui habite le cœur de cet homme qui, à son tour, a consacré sa vie à partager autour de lui les lumières qu'il a reçu du Seigneur. Des lumières qui ont irradié ces grandes figures de sainteté qui nous servent de guides et d'exemples. Et s'il aime rappeler François d'Assise, Thérèse de Lisieux ou Damien de Veuster, le Père Stan Rougier tient aussi à évoquer les saints des autres traditions religieuses, de l'Islam à l'Hindouisme. Dans cet épisode, le Père Stan Rougier médite également sur la signification du rapprochement, voulu par le calendrier liturgique, entre la fête de tous les saints et celle, célébrée le lendemain, de tous nos proches, de nos parents et de nos amis qui nous ont précédés dans la mort. Un moment de recueillement, de joie et d'espérance à vivre en écoutant cet épisode qui, dans la douceur des paroles du Père Stan Rougier, manifeste la tendresse et l'amour de Dieu pour chacun. Pour l'écouter, vous pouvez aussi vous rendre sur le site de Zeteo en cliquant ici. Zeteo dépend aussi de vous...Zeteo est un podcast chrétien diffusé gratuitement, pour répondre à l'appel d'évangélisation au plus grand nombre... C'est une oeuvre humaine qui tente de répondre au mieux aux besoins du Seigneur, qui appelle toujours plus d'ouvriers à la moisson. Si Zeteo a pu diffuser ainsi 120 épisodes depuis janvier 2020, c'est grâce à Lui qui a suscité les rencontres et les gestes de ceux qui, par leurs dons, contribuent à l'effort de production et de diffusion dont les coûts sont réels... C'est pourquoi Zeteo a toujours besoin de vous : si vous appréciez notre podcast, si vous pouvez faire des dons pour que notre mission continue, sachez que ces dons sont notre principale source financière. D'où cet appel que nous lançons à ceux qui apprécient Zeteo et qui peuvent faire un geste. Il s'adresse particulièrement à ceux d'entre vous qui, si vous avez jugé nécessaire de nous soutenir et souhaité faire un don, ne l'avez pas encore fait ! Nous renouvelons aussi notre appel auprès de ceux qui hésitent, ou encore ceux qui peuvent nous aider seulement par des petits montants : C'est l'addition de tous qui nous permettra d'y arriver. Si le Seigneur le veut, Zeteo continuera : notre gratitude envers Lui, comme envers tous ceux qui nous ont aidé, est accompagnée de confiance et de l'abandon de nos inquiétudes en Sa bienveillance ! Pour faire un don, vous pouvez cliquer ici pour vous rendre sur le site de paiement en ligne sécurisé de HelloAsso. D'avance un grand merci pour tous vos gestes ! Ceux qui préfèrent payer par chèque le peuvent en l'adressant à Zeteo, 116 boulevard Suchet – 75016 Paris. -------------- Bethesda, l'autre podcastBethesda, le podcast de la guérison et de la conversion. Chaque semaine, le témoignage d'une personne qui a vécu l'extraordinaire de la guérison et de la conversion dans la rencontre avec le Christ. Pour découvrir Bethesda, cliquer ici. -------------- Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Zeteo, cliquer ici. Pour en savoir plus au sujet de Bethesda, cliquer ici. Pour lire les messages de nos auditeurs, cliquer ici. Nous contacter : contact@zeteo.fr Proposer votre témoignage ou celui d'un proche : temoignage@zeteo.fr  

Fr. James preaches about the witness of St. Damien, who lived among the lepers and brought them the sacraments. He emphasizes that we need to see the spiritual dimension of each and every person.

Acts 16:11-15 • John 15:26-16:4a

Mass from the St. Gabriel the Archangel Chapel in Immaculate Conception School in Traverse City, Michigan, Monday May 10, 2021. Feast of St. John of Avila and St. Damien de Veuster of Molokai. Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter. Celebrant: Fr. Michael Class, S.J.

Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster, aka Damien of Molokai, 1840-1889; ordained for the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; assigned to the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, and volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people’s physical, medical, and spiritual […] All show notes at Daybreak for May 10, 2021 - This podcast produced by Relevant Radio

Monday of the Sixth Week of Easter Optional Memorial of St. Damien de Veuster, aka Damien of Molokai, 1840-1889; ordained for the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary; assigned to the leper colony on the Hawaiian island of Molokai, and volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people's physical, medical, and spiritual […]

Full Text of ReadingsMonday of the Sixth Week of Easter Lectionary: 291All podcast readings are produced by the USCCB and are from the Catholic Lectionary, based on the New American Bible and approved for use in the United States _______________________________________The Saint of the day is Saint Damien de Veuster of MolokaiWhen Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy, Hansen’s disease. By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. They knew that human compassion could soften the ravages of this disease. Forced to quit school at age 13 to work on the family farm, Joseph entered the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary six years later, taking the name of a fourth-century physician and martyr. When his brother Pamphile, a priest in the same congregation, fell ill and was unable to go to the Hawaiian Islands as assigned, Damien quickly volunteered in his place. In May 1864, two months after arriving in his new mission, Damien was ordained a priest in Honolulu and assigned to the island of Hawaii. In 1873, he went to the Hawaiian government’s leper colony on the island of Moloka’i, set up seven years earlier. Part of a team of four chaplains taking that assignment for three months each year, Damien soon volunteered to remain permanently, caring for the people’s physical, medical, and spiritual needs. In time, he became their most effective advocate to obtain promised government support. Soon the settlement had new houses and a new church, school and orphanage. Morale improved considerably. A few years later, he succeeded in getting the Franciscan Sisters of Syracuse, led by Mother Marianne Cope, to help staff this colony in Kalaupapa. Damien contracted Hansen’s disease and died of its complications. As requested, he was buried in Kalaupapa, but in 1936 the Belgian government succeeded in having his body moved to Belgium. Part of Damien’s body was returned to his beloved Hawaiian brothers and sisters after his beatification in 1995. When Hawaii became a state in 1959, it selected Damien as one of its two representatives in the Statuary Hall at the US Capitol. Damien was canonized by Pope Benedict XVI on October 11, 2009. Reflection Some people thought Damien was a hero for going to Moloka’i and others thought he was crazy. When a Protestant clergyman wrote that Damien was guilty of immoral behavior, Robert Louis Stevenson vigorously defended him in an “Open Letter to Dr. Hyde.” Saint of the Day Copyright Franciscan Media

St. Damien de Veuster (of Molokai), Priest (Optional Memorial)

San Damián de Veuster (de Molokai), Presbítero (Memoria Libre)

"Todo por amor, sin guardarse nada"

Ser santo significa ser amigo de Dios, significa estar en amistad con Dios, significa estar en armonía con la Santísima Trinidad. Es estar en gracia y unión a Dios por que Dios es santo. Si estamos en unión con Dios podemos participar en la santidad de Dios. Dios nos creó a su imagen y semejanza y como tal, nos creó para estar en santidad y para ser santos. Podemos decir que ser santos es simplemente participar en la santidad y pureza de Dios. El catecismo de la iglesia católica en su numeral 2013 nos dice: 2013 “Todos los fieles, de cualquier estado o régimen de vida, son llamados a la plenitud de la vida cristiana y a la perfección de la caridad” (LG 40). Todos son llamados a la santidad: “Sed perfectos como vuestro Padre celestial es perfecto” (Mt 5, 48): Al ser santos estamos llamados a la plenitud de la vida. Por medio de la santidad podemos disfrutar verdaderamente lo que es la vida. Aparte de que todos estamos llamados a la santidad, la iglesia nos presenta ejemplos a la santidad. Estos ejemplos lo llamamos santos canonizados. Los santos canonizados son aquellas personas que vivieron una vida en armonía y amistad con Dios, los cuales se nos presentan como ejemplos de santidad. El Santo del Dia nos presenta un santo para honrar y reflexionar en ese día particular. Te invito a conocer y reflexionar un poquito sobre la vida de algunos de los tantos santos de la iglesia. ¡Acompáñame ahora y escucha el episodio! Recuerda que al principio del programa escucharas un anuncio en inglés y después escucharas el episodio.

     O leper with the lepers,      you united yourself      so thoroughly      with those you served      that you became one of them,      one of the frightful and rejected souls      abandoned by the world      but redeemed by the blood of Christ      through your intercession.      To them you brought the consolation      of government support      and the love of the Lord,      and so, many were inspired      to drag themselves      into your chapel –      pray we join them there,      listening attentively to the Word of salvation      and finding healing for the disease      that eats away at our souls;      help us to embrace the cross      the Lord provides      to lead us on the narrow way      to Heaven.

     O leper with the lepers,      you united yourself      so thoroughly      with those you served      that you became one of them,      one of the frightful and rejected souls      abandoned by the world      but redeemed by the blood of Christ      through your intercession.      To them you brought the consolation      of government support      and the love of the Lord,      and so, many were inspired      to drag themselves      into your chapel –      pray we join them there,      listening attentively to the Word of salvation      and finding healing for the disease      that eats away at our souls;      help us to embrace the cross      the Lord provides      to lead us on the narrow way      to Heaven.

GOSPEL POWER |MAY 10, 2021 MONDAY | Saint Damien de Veuster of Molokai, priest 6th Week of Easter Gospel: Jn 15: 26 – 16: 4a Jesus said to his disciples, “When the Advocate comes, whom I will send to you from the Father, the Spirit of truth who comes from the Father, he will testify on my behalf. You also are to testify because you have been with me from the beginning. “I have said these things to you to keep you from stumbling. They will put you out of the synagogues. Indeed, an hour is coming when those who kill you will think that by doing so they are offering worship to God. And they will do this because they have not known the Father or me. But I have said these things to you so that when their hour comes you may remember that I told you about them.” REFLECTION Those who are not in touch with Jesus' revelation of God as LOVE can fall into the error of believing that destroying other people's lives or inflicting suffering on them is a way of serving and honoring God, an act pleasing to God. From the birth of Christianity until today, this error has given rise to the persecution of those who bear Jesus' name. Though the Advocate that Jesus promises to send is the Spirit of Truth, he does not undo the error of religious persecution by simply sparing the believers from such evil situations. Rather, persecutions become the very context for testifying to the Truth. Empowered by the Spirit, believers courageously uphold the Truth even to the point of self-sacrifice. The Truth is not extinguished, but becomes more resplendent as martyrs willingly offer their lives for it. PRAYER Lord Jesus, your Church is strengthened by the testimony of martyrs throughout the ages. Let your Spirit-Advocate embolden us too, to testify to the Truth. Amen.

La tan aclamada columna de Rafa! Hoy nos cuenta sobre los Santos de la próxima semana... Lunes 10 de mayo: San Damián Veuster Jueves 13 de mayo: Nuestra Señora de Fátima

En Kalawao, de la isla de Molokai, San Damián de Veuster, presbítero de la Congregación de Misioneros de los Sagrados Corazones de Jesús y de María, entregó su vida a la asistencia material y espiritual de los leprosos, terminando él mismo contagiado de esta enfermedad, pues se fue a la isla a donde mandaron a todos los leprosos para que no contagiaran. Es el patrón de los leprosos, marginados, enfermos de sida y del Estado de Hawái.

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13 January 2019 The Baptism of the Lord Luke 3:15-16, 21-22 + Homily 18 Minutes 6 Seconds Link to the Readings http://www.usccb.org/bible/readings/011319.cfm (New American Bible, Revised Edition) (from the parish bulletin)    The foundational documents of our nation were influenced by Catholic political philosophers such as Aquinas, Suárez, Báñez, Gregory of Valencia and Saint Robert Bellarmine, who wrote before theorists like Hobbes and Rousseau. This contradicts a popular impression that democracy was the invention of the Protestant Reformation. Luther and Calvin considered popular assemblies highly suspect. The concept of the Divine Right of Kings, which was a prelude to what we call “statism” and “big government,” was systematized by the Protestant counselor to King James I of England, Robert Filmer.    For all his vague Deism, Thomas Jefferson might have acknowledged those Catholic sources, if obliquely, in his eloquent phrases. The Constitution’s First Amendment guarantee of the free exercise of religion and Article VI’s prohibition of religious tests for public office were developments rooted in the Thomistic outlines of human rights and dignity declared in the Magna Carta and the Declaration of Arbraoth.    This was lost on some senators who have violated Constitutional guarantees by subjecting judicial nominees to religious tests. One senator complained to a Catholic nominee for the Seventh Circuit Court of Appeals that “the dogma lives loudly within you.” Two other senators said that the President’s nominee for a federal district court in Nebraska was unsuitable because his membership in the Knights of Columbus committed him to “a number of extreme positions.” Members of their political party consider opposition to same-sex marriage and abortion “extreme.” This would characterize the Pope as an extremist, but at least he is not a judicial nominee.    In the Statuary Hall of our nation’s Capitol are sculptures portraying heroes who represent the best of the history and culture of each state. They include Saint Junípero Serra of California, Saint Damien de Veuster of Hawaii, Declaration of Independence signer Charles Carroll of Maryland, Father Eusebio Kino of Arizona, General James Shields of Illinois, Chief Justice Edward Douglass White of Louisiana, Father Jacques Marquette of Wisconsin, Patrick McCarran of Nevada, Dennis Chavez of New Mexico, John Burke of North Dakota, John McLoughlin of Oregon, Mother Joseph of the Sacred Heart Pariseau of Washington, and John Edward Kenna of West Virginia, all of whom were Catholic. These canonized saints, statesmen, soldiers, jurists and pioneers would be extremists unworthy of public office in the estimation of some current senators for whom subscription to natural law and obedience to the Ten Commandments are violations of what they fantasize as the norm of moral being.    The coruscating illiteracy of such senators burlesques reason. At every performance of Mozart’s Don Giovanni, audiences wait for the fifth scene of the second act, when the haunting statue of the Commendatore comes alive and knocks on the door to the sound of trombones. Would that all those statues of some of our nation’s greatest figures might come down from their pedestals and challenge the vacant minds of those inquisitorial senators to explain what constitutes extremism.

St. Damien de Veuster

Saint Damien de Veuster, connu sous le nom de père Damien, né Jozef de Veuster le 3 janvier 1840 à Tremelo en Belgique et mort le 15 avril 1889 à Molokai à Hawaï, est un missionnaire catholique membre de la congrégation des Sacrés-Cœurs de Jésus et de Marie. Il est connu pour son travail de missionnaire dans le Pacifique, spécialement auprès des lépreux relégués par les gouvernements locaux sur l'île de Molokai à Hawaï. Durant son ministère, il contracta lui-même la lèpre en 1884. S'identifiant totalement avec ses fidèles il accepta de ne plus quitter Molokai et y poursuivit son travail pastoral et missionnaire jusqu'à sa mort en 1889. Pour cette raison, il est considéré par l'Église catholique comme un « martyr de la charité ». Pour les catholiques, saint Damien est le patron spirituel des lépreux. Il a été fêté localement par les Hawaïens le 15 avril. L'Église catholique le célèbre le 10 mai, date de son arrivée sur l'île de Molokai1. Il a été canonisé le 11 octobre 2009 par le pape Benoît XVI en la basilique de Rome. Lu par : Edition Rassemblement à Son Image

May 10-St. Damien de Veuster of Moloka’i (1840-1889) When Joseph de Veuster was born in Tremelo, Belgium, in 1840, few people in Europe had any firsthand knowledge of leprosy (Hansen’s disease). By the time he died at the age of 49, people all over the world knew about this disease because of him. T

José de Veuster nace en Tremeloo, en Bélgica, el 3 de enero de 1840, de una familia numerosa de agricultores-comerciantes. Su hermano mayor había entrado en la Congregación de los Sagrados Corazones (llamada de Picpus a causa del nombre de la calle 'Picpus' en París, allí se encontraba la casa general).

This week, Paul travels to the island paradise of Molokai, Hawaii. From 1866 to 1969 thousands of men, women, and children diagnosed with leprosy were forcibly exiled to this island to die here in anonymity.  Two Catholic saints, Fr. Damien de Veuster and St. Marianne Cope ministered to them, built their houses, soothed their wounds, and helped them live lives of meaning and worth. Join Paul in his white knuckle flight to the small Pacific island, and walk rainy and windswept paths in the rugged footsteps where St. Damien trod.  Travel across the peninsula from Kaluapapa to Kalawao, surrounded on three sides by treacherous surf, and on one side by 3000 foot cliffs.  Listen to tour guide Ian from Father Damien Tours as he recounts emotional stories of the citizens afflicted with this horrific disease, lost and forgotten on this island. SaintCast #58, Blessed Damien of Molokai SaintCast #120, Bishop Larry Silva on St. Damien Father Damien tours

Today we welcome Honolulu's Bishop Larry Silva to the SaintCast to discuss the upcoming canonization and life of Blessed Damien de Veuster. He talks of the upcoming celebrations and pilgrimages and what Fr. Damien means to Hawaii and the world. "Who is St. Bede" and what does he have to do with Dante Alighieri? Blessed Pedro Colungsod website Notre Dame liturgical choir website/CD's

Great news from Rome this week, that Blessed Fr. Damien de Veuster, the priest to the lepers of Molokai is to be canonized in October. On this SaintCast we interview Ken Bath of the ROMCAL.net website, about his program to bring the Roman Catholic liturgical calendar to the masses. St. Raphael and the fish, SQPN giving campaign, Catholic New Media Conference, and saintly quote from Francis Xavier on this week's SaintCast. ROMCAL St. Benedict Abbey The Divine Mercy Podcast with Greg Keuter Magnatune.com Print your SaintCast flyers for posting here