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Few Love the Cross of Jesus: (3)
If a man give all his wealth, it is nothing; if he do great
penance, it is little; if he gain all knowledge, he is still far
afield; if he have great virtue and much ardent devotion, he still
lacks a great deal, and especially, the one thing that is most
necessary to him. What is this one thing? That leaving all, he forsake
himself, completely renounce himself, and give up all private
affections. Then, when he has done all that he knows ought to be done,
let him consider it as nothing, let him make little of what may be
considered great; let him in all honesty call himself an unprofitable servant.
For truth itself has said:
"When you shall have done all these things that are commanded
you, say: 'we are unprofitable servants.'" (Luke 17:10).
Then he will be truly poor and stripped in spirit, and with the
prophet may say: "I am alone and poor." (Ps. 24:16.)
No one, however, is more wealthy than such a man; no one is more
powerful, no one freer than he who knows how to leave all things and
think of himself as the least of all.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Book 2, Chapter 11
<<>><<>><<>>
9 May – Blessed Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez
more commonly known as Blessed Maria Carmen Rendiles
(1903-1977)
In religion María Carmen – was a Venezuelan professed religious of the
Servants of the Eucharist and the founder of the Servants of Jesus of
Caracas, Apostle of Charity, Catechist, Administrator and founder of
many schools and convents. She served in a leadership position for her
order in France where she spent her time of religious formation and
returned to Venezuela to found her order in 1965 and assume control as
Superior-General of her new order.
Patronage – Servants of Jesus of Caracas.
Blessed Maria Carmen was born on 11 August 1903 in Caracas, Venezuela.
She was the third of eight children and her family was wealthy and
respected in the capital city. Her baptism was celebrated in the
church of Santa Anna on 24 September 1903 and she received her
Confirmation on 28 October 1905, she made her First Communion on 11
March 1911. Carmen was born with a rare physical deformation and was
missing her left arm. She lived her whole life with a prosthetic arm
but this physical setback never affected her joyful spirit. She was
admired and impressed many people with how she lived her life, not
letting her handicap hold her back.
When she was 15, she became a Catechist at her parish and would go on
missions to nearby towns to teach. She did this for many years and
began to feel the calling to be a religious nun and serve God. In 1927
she joined the Congregation of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament,
which was based in France but had convents in Venezuela. She studied
in Toulouse, France. When her studies were completed, she went back to
Caracas and worked there in the convent for about 10 years.
She served in many different jobs and positions during her time as a
nun and in 1951 she was named the Provincial Superior for her region.
During this time, she started new convents and several schools in both
Venezuela and Columbia. She even started a school for poor children in
her old childhood home, which she inherited.
Blessed Maria Carmen founded the Servants of Jesus on 25 March 1965.
The order received diocesan approval and support on 14 August 1969
from the Cardinal Archbishop of Caracas José Humberto Quintero Parra.
She was the Superior General of her new order from 1969 when she was
appointed until her death on 9 May 1977 due to influenza. In 2015
there were 94 religious in a total of 19 communities in both Venezuela
and in Colombia.
On 5 July 2013, Pope Francis declared her a venerable (decree of
heroic virtues) and on 16 June 2018 she was Beatified. The
beatification miracle involved the healing of Trinette Durán de
Branger on 18 July 2003 and the ceremony was celebrated in Caracas,
Venezuela, by Cardinal Angelo Amato. Her process of sainthood
continues.
“It brings immense joy to the entire Catholic Church of Venezuela, and
especially for the Archdiocese of Caracas, to announce that Pope
Francis has signed the decree approving the beatification of Mother
Carmen Rendiles Martínez” announced Archbishop of Caracas Cardinal
Jorge Urosa Savino.
“On 21 November, a miracle presented to the Congregation for the
Causes of Saints was approved, for which it will be beatified next
year.”
Urosa explained that Martinez will become the third Venezuelan
beatified by the Vatican. The blessing comes after the Vatican studied
and approved, an “instantaneous, perfect, stable and lasting”
miraculous healing on Trinette Durán de Branger, on 18 July 2003.
Urosa extended his congratulations to the Congregation Servants of
Jesus, founded by Mother Rendiles Martinez, for her tireless and
laborious work performed through the commission that leads to the
process of beatification and canonisation.
“It has been arduous work carried out by Dr Silvia Correale,
postulator of the cause, Sister Rosa María Ríos, vice postulator and
the general superiors of the Congregation,” the Cardinal pointed out.
“The current head of the religious order is Mother Maria Eugenia
Noreña.”
https://anastpaul.com/2019/05/09/
“Catholicism is a matter
of the body and the senses,
as much as it is,
a matter of the mind,
precisely because,
the Word became flesh.”
--Bishop Robert Barron
“The Word is NOT a bible verse
BUT living, flesh and blood,
Jesus Christ!”
--Fr Enrico V Parry
Saint Quote:
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is
to be had in them; and hold fast to God, who does not change.
--St. Teresa of Avila
Bible Quote:
Again therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the
world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have
the light of life.
[John 8:12] DRV
<><><><>
O good Jesus, hide me within Thy wounds.
Behold, O good and sweetest Jesus, before Thy Face I
humbly kneel, and with the greatest fervour of my soul I pray
and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments
of faith, hope, and charity, with true contrition for my sins and
a most firm purpose of amendment, whilst I contemplate with
great sorrow and affection Thy five wounds and ponder them
over in my mind, having before my eyes the words which long
ago David the prophet spoke in Thy own person concerning
Thee, O good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My
feet, they have numbered all My bones."
Grant, O Lord Jesus Christ, that we who devoutly cherish
Thy wounds, having them impressed on our hearts, may
honour them by our actions and our life.
--Glory be to the Father, etc., five times.
If a man give all his wealth, it is nothing; if he do great
penance, it is little; if he gain all knowledge, he is still far
afield; if he have great virtue and much ardent devotion, he still
lacks a great deal, and especially, the one thing that is most
necessary to him. What is this one thing? That leaving all, he forsake
himself, completely renounce himself, and give up all private
affections. Then, when he has done all that he knows ought to be done,
let him consider it as nothing, let him make little of what may be
considered great; let him in all honesty call himself an unprofitable servant.
For truth itself has said:
"When you shall have done all these things that are commanded
you, say: 'we are unprofitable servants.'" (Luke 17:10).
Then he will be truly poor and stripped in spirit, and with the
prophet may say: "I am alone and poor." (Ps. 24:16.)
No one, however, is more wealthy than such a man; no one is more
powerful, no one freer than he who knows how to leave all things and
think of himself as the least of all.
--Thomas à Kempis --Imitation of Christ Book 2, Chapter 11
<<>><<>><<>>
9 May – Blessed Carmen Elena Rendiles Martínez
more commonly known as Blessed Maria Carmen Rendiles
(1903-1977)
In religion María Carmen – was a Venezuelan professed religious of the
Servants of the Eucharist and the founder of the Servants of Jesus of
Caracas, Apostle of Charity, Catechist, Administrator and founder of
many schools and convents. She served in a leadership position for her
order in France where she spent her time of religious formation and
returned to Venezuela to found her order in 1965 and assume control as
Superior-General of her new order.
Patronage – Servants of Jesus of Caracas.
Blessed Maria Carmen was born on 11 August 1903 in Caracas, Venezuela.
She was the third of eight children and her family was wealthy and
respected in the capital city. Her baptism was celebrated in the
church of Santa Anna on 24 September 1903 and she received her
Confirmation on 28 October 1905, she made her First Communion on 11
March 1911. Carmen was born with a rare physical deformation and was
missing her left arm. She lived her whole life with a prosthetic arm
but this physical setback never affected her joyful spirit. She was
admired and impressed many people with how she lived her life, not
letting her handicap hold her back.
When she was 15, she became a Catechist at her parish and would go on
missions to nearby towns to teach. She did this for many years and
began to feel the calling to be a religious nun and serve God. In 1927
she joined the Congregation of the Servants of the Blessed Sacrament,
which was based in France but had convents in Venezuela. She studied
in Toulouse, France. When her studies were completed, she went back to
Caracas and worked there in the convent for about 10 years.
She served in many different jobs and positions during her time as a
nun and in 1951 she was named the Provincial Superior for her region.
During this time, she started new convents and several schools in both
Venezuela and Columbia. She even started a school for poor children in
her old childhood home, which she inherited.
Blessed Maria Carmen founded the Servants of Jesus on 25 March 1965.
The order received diocesan approval and support on 14 August 1969
from the Cardinal Archbishop of Caracas José Humberto Quintero Parra.
She was the Superior General of her new order from 1969 when she was
appointed until her death on 9 May 1977 due to influenza. In 2015
there were 94 religious in a total of 19 communities in both Venezuela
and in Colombia.
On 5 July 2013, Pope Francis declared her a venerable (decree of
heroic virtues) and on 16 June 2018 she was Beatified. The
beatification miracle involved the healing of Trinette Durán de
Branger on 18 July 2003 and the ceremony was celebrated in Caracas,
Venezuela, by Cardinal Angelo Amato. Her process of sainthood
continues.
“It brings immense joy to the entire Catholic Church of Venezuela, and
especially for the Archdiocese of Caracas, to announce that Pope
Francis has signed the decree approving the beatification of Mother
Carmen Rendiles Martínez” announced Archbishop of Caracas Cardinal
Jorge Urosa Savino.
“On 21 November, a miracle presented to the Congregation for the
Causes of Saints was approved, for which it will be beatified next
year.”
Urosa explained that Martinez will become the third Venezuelan
beatified by the Vatican. The blessing comes after the Vatican studied
and approved, an “instantaneous, perfect, stable and lasting”
miraculous healing on Trinette Durán de Branger, on 18 July 2003.
Urosa extended his congratulations to the Congregation Servants of
Jesus, founded by Mother Rendiles Martinez, for her tireless and
laborious work performed through the commission that leads to the
process of beatification and canonisation.
“It has been arduous work carried out by Dr Silvia Correale,
postulator of the cause, Sister Rosa María Ríos, vice postulator and
the general superiors of the Congregation,” the Cardinal pointed out.
“The current head of the religious order is Mother Maria Eugenia
Noreña.”
https://anastpaul.com/2019/05/09/
“Catholicism is a matter
of the body and the senses,
as much as it is,
a matter of the mind,
precisely because,
the Word became flesh.”
--Bishop Robert Barron
“The Word is NOT a bible verse
BUT living, flesh and blood,
Jesus Christ!”
--Fr Enrico V Parry
Saint Quote:
Consider seriously how quickly people change, and how little trust is
to be had in them; and hold fast to God, who does not change.
--St. Teresa of Avila
Bible Quote:
Again therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying: I am the light of the
world: he that followeth me, walketh not in darkness, but shall have
the light of life.
[John 8:12] DRV
<><><><>
O good Jesus, hide me within Thy wounds.
Behold, O good and sweetest Jesus, before Thy Face I
humbly kneel, and with the greatest fervour of my soul I pray
and beseech Thee to fix deep in my heart lively sentiments
of faith, hope, and charity, with true contrition for my sins and
a most firm purpose of amendment, whilst I contemplate with
great sorrow and affection Thy five wounds and ponder them
over in my mind, having before my eyes the words which long
ago David the prophet spoke in Thy own person concerning
Thee, O good Jesus: "They have pierced My hands and My
feet, they have numbered all My bones."
Grant, O Lord Jesus Christ, that we who devoutly cherish
Thy wounds, having them impressed on our hearts, may
honour them by our actions and our life.
--Glory be to the Father, etc., five times.
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