January 23, Third Sunday in Ordinary Time
Right photo: Blessed Marianne's beatification rites in St. Peter's Basilica.
BLESSED MARIANNE COPE (b Germany 1838, d Hawaii 1918)
Virgin, Professed Franciscan of the Third Order, Missionary
Born Maria Anna Barbara Koob in Darmstadt, Germany. Her parents migrated to the United States when she
was a baby and settled in Syracuse, New York. She joined the Third Order Franciscan nuns and was taught in
schools for immigrants. She was assigned as superior to several places, during which she helped found
the first two Catholic hospitals in the US, gaining the experience she would later use in Hawaii. In 1877,
she was elected Mother Provincial of her order and re-elected in 1881. In 1883, she and some of her fellow
nuns answered a bid from the Hawaiian government to run a center for receiving leprosy patients in Maui.
In 1888, she went to Molokai to help Father Damien (now St. Damien) run the leper colony during his final
months. She took over after he died and served the lepers for the rest of her life, gaining fame for her
holiness as Mother Marianne of Molokai. It was considered a miracle that she did not catch the disease in
the 30 years she spent there. She was one of the first two persons beatified under Benedict XVI in rites
at St. Peter's Basilica on May 14, 2005.
Readings for today's Mass: www.usccb.org/nab/readings/012311.shtml
OR today.
Benedict XVI tells the Tribunal of the Roman Rota that they must relate canon law to pastoral care:
'How to prevent marriage annulments'
Other Page 1 items: An essay on doctor's ethics, highlighting theancient Hippocratic oath, a prayer by the medieval Jewish physician-scholar Moses Maimonides, and a June 2000 prayer by John Paul II from a letter to the Internationl Federation of Catholic Phisicians; China's President HU leaves the US after a state visit without resolving differences with President Obama over North Korea and on trade and financial relations; anti-gvernment demonstrations rock Albania, Jordan and Algeria. In the inside pages, an extract from a 1962 lecture and eventual book on political theology by Prof. Joseph Ratzinger, and two essays about the book; and a report on Catholic relations with the World Lutheran Federation in a continuing series during the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity.
PAPAL EVENTS TODAY
Sunday Angelus - The Holy Father reiterated his reflections on the Week of Prayer for Christian Unity elaborated
by him at last Wednesday's General Audience, and tied uo the four hinges of Christian living that make up the theme
of this Prayer Week, to the Gospel today that 'the Kingdom of Heaven is at hand'. He reminded the faithful that the Week
of Prayer for Christian Unity eill end on Tuesday with Vespers on the Feast of the Conversion of St. Paul.
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