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Saint of the Day

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Hey Newman,

 

Today we’re joined by a woman who astonished everyone when she gave up her riches to follow the Lord, St. Katharine Drexel.  Her story is below, but first:

 

·         We will be praying the 1st Sorrowful Mystery of the Rosary today before Mass.  Please join us a few minutes early to pray and reflect on the agony in the garden.

·         Our time-honored Newman noodles will be served with bread and salad for dinner after Mass today, so come and join us at 7pm for food and fellowship.

·         Our professor prayer campaign will be starting up again soon!  We are in need of people to help copy and cut the cards.  If you can help out, please contact Phil (ptk3@cwru.edu).

·         There will be no Mass at Hallinan on Friday, March 14th due to spring break.

·         On next Friday, March 5th, Holy Rosary will be having Eucharistic Adoration.  Adoration begins after 12:15 Mass and concludes at 7pm with Benediction.  Stop by at any time to spend a few minutes in the presence of our Lord.

·         Holy Rosary also has Stations of the Cross every Friday during Lent at 7pm.

·         And, as always:

 

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Patristic Quote of the Week

 

St. Jerome: “God created us with free will, and we are not forced by necessity either to virtue or to vice.  Otherwise, where there were necessity there would be no crown.  Just as with good works, it is God who brings them to perfection, depending not so much on him that wills nor on him that runs as on God who pities and assists him to reach the goal; so too with wickedness and sin, the seed that prompts us is our own, while its germination and maturation belongs to the devil.”  (Against Jovinian 2, 3 [A.D. 393]).

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Prayer Requests

 

Please pray for

·         RCIA students, as they prepare to enter the church on Holy Saturday

·         All families, for the renewal and strengthening of those relationships

·         Those discerning God’s will in their lives

·         Those who are ill and those having surgery, for their recovery

·         All students, as we enter midterms, especially those feeling overwhelmed

·         And for peace in the world and in our own hearts.

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Saint of the Day for 3/3/04 (from AmericanCatholic.com)

St. Katharine Drexel

(1858-1955)

Katharine Drexel was born in Philadelphia in 1858. She had an excellent education and traveled widely. As a rich girl, she had a grand debut into society. But when she nursed her stepmother through a three-year terminal illness, she saw that all the Drexel money could not buy safety from pain or death, and her life took a profound turn.

She had always been interested in the plight of the Indians, having been appalled by reading Helen Hunt Jackson’s A Century of Dishonor. While on a European tour, she met Pope Leo XIII and asked him to send more missionaries to Wyoming for her friend Bishop James O’Connor. The pope replied, “Why don’t you become a missionary?” His answer shocked her into considering new possibilities.

Back home, she visited the Dakotas, met the Sioux leader Red Cloud and began her systematic aid to Indian missions.

She could easily have married. But after much discussion with Bishop O’Connor, she wrote in 1889, “The feast of St. Joseph brought me the grace to give the remainder of my life to the Indians and the Colored.” Newspaper headlines screamed “Gives Up Seven Million!”

After three and a half years of training, she and her first band of nuns (Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament for Indians and Colored) opened a boarding school in Santa Fe. A string of foundations followed. By 1942 she had a system of black Catholic schools in 13 states, plus 40 mission centers and 23 rural schools. Segregationists harassed her work, even burning a school in Pennsylvania. In all, she established 50 missions for Indians in 16 states.

Two saints met when she was advised by Mother Cabrini about the “politics” of getting her Order’s Rule approved in Rome. Her crowning achievement was the founding of Xavier University in New Orleans, the first university in the United States for blacks.

At 77, she suffered a heart attack and was forced to retire. Apparently her life was over. But now came almost 20 years of quiet, intense prayer from a small room overlooking the sanctuary. Small notebooks and slips of paper record her various prayers, ceaseless aspirations and meditation. She died at 96 and was canonized in 2000.

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Good luck with midterms this week!  Thanks for reading.

 

In Him,

Cheryl

 

“To love God is something greater than to know Him.”

- St. Thomas Aquinas