Last Updated on April 27, 2022 by Editor (Above: Mount Carmel School Class of 1921, the last class to graduate when Father Joseph Forma was pastor of Mount Carmel.) This is the third in a series of articles highlighting the history of our parish leading to its 125th anniversary. Previous articles and issues of “More […]
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Out of the darkness, Mary Lourdes Martin shines very bright
Last Updated on April 27, 2022 by Editor Mary Lourdes Martin wasn’t dealt the greatest hand in life. Born premature and blind since birth, Mary has made the most of her 67 years on this Earth. With the love and guidance of her parents early on, and the passion for not letting anything hold her […]
NOV. 23: ST. COLUMBAN
(c. 843-615) St. Columban was from Leinster, Ireland, and went on to become an abbot, a writer, speaker and one of the greatest missionaries of the Celtic Church initiating a revival of spirituality in Europe. He went to the great monastic seat of learning at Bangor in Northern Ireland, where he was educated by St. […]
NOV. 22: ST. CECILIA
(Martyred c. 230 Ad) The picture of St. Cecelia above comes from the ceiling over the choir loft at St. Mary of Mount Carmel / Blessed Sacrament Parish. Today we celebrate her feast. Her story is contained in the Passio Sanctae Caeciliae, a more literary than historical text. It tells us that Cecilia was betrothed […]
NOV. 21: BLESSED MARY OF JESUS THE GOOD SHEPHERD
(1842-1902) Born Frances Siedliska, into a family of privilege and wealth in mid-19th century Poland, Frances hungered for a deep spiritual life that expressed itself in the radical commitment of vowed religious life. As she traveled through Europe seeking cures for her physical ailments, she eventually recognized and accepted God’s invitation to begin a new […]
NOV. 20: ST. ROSE PHILIPPINE DUCHESNE
(1769-1852) St. Rose was born in Grenoble, France. She learned political skills from her father and a love of the poor from her mother. Rose entered the Visitation of Mary convent at 19 and remained despite family opposition. As the French Revolution broke, the convent was closed, and she began taking care of the poor […]
NOV. 19: ST. MATILDA (MECHTILDE)
(1240-1298) Matilda Von Hackeborn-Wippra belonged to one of the noblest and most powerful Thuringian families. Her sister was the saintly and illustrious Abbess Gertrude von Hackeborn. Matilda was so fragile at birth, that the attendants, fearing she might die unbaptized, hurried her off to the priest who was just then preparing to say Mass. After […]
NOV. 18: ST. ODO OF CLUNY
(880–942) St. Odo was born in about 880, on the boundary between the Maine and the Touraine regions of France. His father consecrated him to the holy Bishop Martin of Tours, in whose beneficent shadow and memory he was to spend his entire life, which he ended close to St Martin’s tomb. Odo was still […]
NOV. 17: ST. ELIZABETH
(1207 -1231) Today’s saint, Elizabeth, has been honored in our community through the name of one of our local hospitals. Elizabeth’s father was Andrew II, the rich and powerful King of Hungary. To reinforce political ties, he had married the German Countess Gertrude of Andechs-Meran, sister of St Hedwig who was wife to the Duke […]
NOV. 16: ST. MARGARET OF SCOTLAND
(1045-1093) Margaret of Scotland, or Margaret of Wessex, was an English princess born in Hungary to Princess Agatha of Hungary and English Prince Edward the Exile around 1045. Her siblings, Cristina and Edgar the Atheling were also born in Hungary around this time. The family returned to England when she was 10 years old and […]