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Wednesday, January 23, Second Week in Ordinary Time
Right photo: Blessed Marianne's beatification rites in St. Peter's Basilica.
ST. 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, and was canonized along with six others last October.
Readings for today's Mass: www.usccb.org/bible/readings/012313.cfm
AT THE VATICAN TODAY
General Audience - In his catecheses for the Year of Faith, the Holy Father today began reflections on
the articles of the Creed, starting with the first affirmation "I believe in God". Afterwards, he offered
his prayers and sympathy for the victims of a terrible flood that left Jakarta, capital of Indonesia, as
much as two meters under water.
The Holy Father also met with
- Six more bishops from the Italian region of Calabria (Group 2) on ad-limina visit.
@Pontifex 1/23/13
Is the Forum back to normal now without the crazy 'centering'? I've been fooled before....
P.S. I just realized that the arbitrary 'centering' of posts occurs only when one is using Internet Explorer - it doesn't occur on Mozilla or GoogleChrome. Serves me right for sticking to Explorer - I am probably their only user by now! I have adhered longer than I should to Explorer, only because it enables me to do multiple text enhancements of a single element without having to highlight the entire thing all over for each enhancement. I use this feature very often for writing the headlines, subheads, and parenthetical comments in the posts - they generally involve the size of the font; whether it is bold, italic or regular; what color it should be; whether it should be enclosed in a quotation box. With Mozilla, where the 'centering' does not occur, I must highlight the element as many times as the number of enhancements I need.
One advantage I have now found out that Mozilla has over Explorer is that it does a running spelling check on the text, so one can immediately correct the errors - and this is very helpful for me when I do translations since I have 'fat fingers' and am very prone to typos. The spell-check feature in Explorer is cumbersome.
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