Posted by Christopher Mc on Friday, October 23, 2009
Under: Church
Most of the talk about the recent canonisations (12 October - incidentally the date St Oliver Plunkett was canonised) was around St Damian the Leper.
Do take some time to read a little about St Jeanne Jugan, foundress of the Little Sisters of the Poor. Not only did she do tremendous works of charity, but she then saw her work effectively stolen by a priest, who seems to have gone to extraordinary lengths to obliterate her memory from the official record. Her real sanctity lay in her reaction to this. You can read about it here.
What bugs me about modern feminist liberal type nuns (apologies to my Doctor Who reader who doesn't like it when I go negative - perhaps you should go visit this self helf group for people who like fluffy things too much) is that they know all the stories of nuns (sorry sisters or members of societies of apostolic life) who were oppressed, Mary Ward etc - but they never seem to be inspired by the heroic way they reacted - the fidelity, courage beyond what is possible without grace, the love they continually showed for the Church.
I'm not so heroically gifted towards silence - instead I burn with zeal for the Lord God of Hosts and greatly desire to smite down His enemies, domestic or foreign.
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Catholic, Carmelite, Husband, Father, Reader of all sorts of books, Writer of occasional letters, Viewer of lots of TV and movies, Lover of tea, Hater of coffee. Anything I write is my own opionion and is not intended to represent the views of any organisation with which I have a connection. You can email me at "blog at live.ie" (replace the "at" with @). Don't be shy. To comment, click on the title of post. You have to include a name and email but fake ones work fine. Make sure there's an @ in the email.
