Sunday, February 26, 2012

Damien for Children


 A beautifully illustrated book for children on the life of Fr. Damien. 
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Damien for Children
27 Northbrook Road
Ranelagh
Dublin 6

Cost: 10 Euro

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St Damien of Molokai The Leper Priest Catholic saint magnetic paper doll

St Damien of Molokai The Leper Priest Catholic saint magnetic paper doll
St Damien of Molokai The Leper Priest Catholic saint magnetic paper dollSt Damien of Molokai The Leper Priest Catholic saint magnetic paper dollSt Damien of Molokai The Leper Priest Catholic saint magnetic paper doll
Saint Damien of Molokai is known as "The Leper Priest" by many. He went to Hawaii in the 1800's to minister to a leper colony. At the time, there was no cure for Leprosy, but he chose to live among Hawaii's outcasts, founding schools and doing many charitable works for the people there. Eventually he contracted leprosy and died from the disease. His actions were widely praised and both Robert Louis Stevenson and Ghandi wrote of his inspiration. He is considered the patron saint of outcasts and unofficially the patron saint of those with HIV/AIDS.

The doll and clothes will need to be cut out by YOU - most scissors work on the magnet paper. Once cut out, stick them to any magnetic surface to change clothing.

All the dolls are made by me, collaged either by hand or in the computer. I print them off on my inkjet printer on 8.5 by 11 inch magnetic paper.

If you are interested in bulk orders or wholesaling, please convo me.

The last photo is a copy of the page you will be receiving.
( See http://etsy.me/ybwspe )
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Canonization ceremony set for nun who cared for Molokai Hansen’s Disease patients

Blessed Marianne Cope
     The Vatican announced this week that Blessed Marianne Cope — a Roman Catholic nun who cared for Hansen's Disease (leprosy) patients on Molokai for three decades beginning in the late 1880s — will be named as a saint during a canonization ceremony set for Sun. Oct. 21.

The ceremony at the Vatican in Rome will mark completion of the canonization process for Mother Marianne, who will be venerated as a saint in the Catholic Church. Also, a special day on the annual church calendar, Jan. 23 (Blessed Marianne’s birthday), will be designated as her “feast day,” according to a news release issued by the Syracuse N.Y.-based Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities.

“Learning the date for the canonization ceremonies completes the cycle of 37 years of efforts to get us to this moment,” Sister Patricia Burkard, general minister of the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities, said in the release.

The Sisters of St. Francis petitioned Pope Paul VI to open the cause for Mother Marianne’s canonization in 1974. Nine years later, an official registration took place, which then led to the titles of venerable, blessed and, now, saint. Canonization is conferred when the Vatican attributes two cases of miracles to a candidate for sainthood. In 2004 and 2011, Vatican officials ruled that cases of inexplicable medical recovery were due to Mother Marianne’s intercession.

Barbara Koob (now officially "Cope") was born on Jan. 23 1838 in West Germany. The next year, her family moved to the United States and settled in Utica, N.Y. At age 24, Barbara entered the Sisters of St Francis in Syracuse, N.Y., where she received the religious habit, the name "Sister Marianne" and began working as a teacher and principal in several elementary schools in New York state.
In 1883, when an emissary from Hawaii sent letters seeking Catholic sisters to provide health care on the Hawaiian Islands, especially to patients with Hansen’s Disease, Mother Marianne was the only religious leader — out of 50 contacted — to respond positively.

She reportedly wrote to the emissary: “I am not afraid of any disease, hence, it would be my greatest delight even to minister to the abandoned "lepers.'"

More than 10 years earlier, thousands of Hansen's Disease patients throughout the Islands had been sent by government order to Molokai’s isolated Kalaupapa peninsula. In 1873, Father Damien de Veuster moved to the island to live among the patients and minister to them. (Saint Damien was canonized in 2009.)

Mother Marianne first met Father Damien in January 1884, when he was in apparent good health. Two years later, in 1886, after he had been diagnosed with Hansen's Disease, Mother Marianne was reportedly the only religious leader to offer hospitality to the priest. (His illness made him an unwelcome visitor to church and government leaders in Honolulu.)

Several months before Father Damien's death in 1889, at age 49, Mother Marianne agreed to provide care for the patients at the Boys' Home at Kalawao that he had founded. Subsequently, Mother Marianne, along with two other nuns, ran the Bishop Home (for girls) and the Home for Boys at Kalawao.

Mother Marianne never returned to Syracuse, and neither she nor the two nuns she worked with contracted Hansen’s Disease. Mother Marianne died on Aug. 9, 1918 in Hawaii and was buried on the grounds of Bishop Home.

For more information about Blessed Marianne Cope’s work in the Islands, click here.
By Maureen O'Connell
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Bl. Kateri, Bl. Marianne Cope to be canonized October 21

Catholic World News: Feb 22nd.  Pope Benedict XVI will canonize 7 new saints, including 2 with American connections, on October 21.    Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha, the young Mohawk woman who converted to Catholicism, will become the first Native American canonized as a saint. Blessed Marianne Cope, a German nun who followed St. Damien of Molokai in ministering to lepers in Hawaii, will be canonized at the same ceremony.

Also canonized on October 21 will be: Jacques Berthieu, a French Jesuit; Pedro Calungsod, a Filipino lay catechist and martyr; Giovanni Battista Piamarta, an Italian priest; Maria del Carmen (nee Maria Salles y Barangueras), the Spanish foundress of the Conceptionist Missionary Sisters of Teaching; and Anna Schaffer, a German lay woman.

Canonization ceremonies are regularly scheduled at consistories: meetings of the College of Cardinals. Ordinarily the consistories that give formal approval for such matters include only those cardinals who are present in Rome at the time. For the October 21 canonizations, however, the public consistory was held immediately following the elevation of 22 new cardinals on February 18, and included nearly all of the members of the College of Cardinals. Catholic World news: Feb 22nd.



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Vatican announces date for Mother Marianne's sainthood

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Vatican announces date for Mother Marianne's sainthood

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Saturday, February 18, 2012


"Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai" by Gavan Daws 

Last week on a plane, I had the blessing to read Holy Man: Father Damien of Molokai by Gavan Daws. I would highly recommend this book. It is an incredible account of one man's self-sacrifice for Christ and his brothers and sisters. It is also a rather ugly account of the relations between missionaries of different Christian sects in Hawaii in the late 1800s. Lest Protestants take too much of the brunt of this treatment, rest assured that the Catholic Church hierarchy also wows the reader with its callousness. Still, at the center of the story is Fr. Damien, about whom I learned so much of the struggles he encountered and his development as a Christian. Plus, this was written in the 70s prior to his beatification and canonization. I loved knowing that this has now occurred~~that St. Damien continues to direct his efforts from heaven for the betterment of those down here on earth. Must read! This is what sanctity looks like "in real life."
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